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The MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group
and the Insitute for Advanced Study at CEU
cordially invite you to their workshop

Enlightenment Vitalism and its Futures

Venue: Budapest, Nádor st. 15, Room 203

PROGRAM

May 23, Wednesday
14:00 - Introduction (Tamás Demeter and Charles Wolfe)

14:15 - Marta Santuccio (CEU): Matter as sensitive and rational: can Cavendish help us better understand consciousness?

15:00 - Charles Wolfe (IAS CEU): Montpellier vitalism and vital materialism

15:45 - Coffee break

16:00 - Tamás Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Vitalisms in Enlightenment Scotland

16:45 - Gábor Zemplén (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): What language game befits Life

May 24, Thursday
09:15 - Paolo Pecere (University of Cassino): Scientific materialism and Lebenskraft: some provocative post-Kantian scenarios

10:00 - Andrea Gambarotto (University of Louvain / IHPST): Teleology beyond Regrets: Revisiting Vital-Materialism and Romantic Naturphilosophie

10:45 - Cécilia Bognon-Küss (IHPST): Nutrition: vital or chemical process? Nutrition, organic chemistry and the laws of vital organization in the 19th century

11:30 - Giuseppe Bianco (EHESS): Philosophy of Life: brief history of an expression

12:15 - Christopher Donohue (NIH): Vitalism and the Polemical Development of Biological Communities in Bohemia and Southeastern Europe: Early 20th Century Case Studies with Lessons for Contemporary Biology

13:00 - Sebastjan Vörös (University of Ljubljana): Only life can know life? Varela's attempt at reconciliation between first- and third-person approaches to life

CALL FOR PAPERS

We plan to dedicate a special issue of Organon F to modal logic. The special issue will be published in the first half of 2019 and will have the title below:

Reflecting on the legacy of C.I. Lewis: contemporary and historical perspectives on modal logic

We invite submissions presenting
– technical results in any area of modal logic, provided that they are illustrated in a detailed way and are accessible to a broad audience;

– philosophical applications (or discussing philosophical aspects) of modal logic, provided that they are connected to a relevant tradition of studies;

– historical discussions on the development of modal logic after C.I. Lewis's early works, provided that they have some relevance for contemporary investigations.

The special issue will be guest-edited by Matteo Pascucci (Vienna University of Technology and Slovak Academy of Sciences) and Ádám Tamás Tuboly (Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Pécs). It will include three invited articles by established researchers in the field and contributed manuscripts selected via a double-blind reviewing process. There are no restrictions regarding the style of submitted manuscripts, but the authors of accepted contributions will be asked to prepare their final versions according to the journal's guidelines. Manuscripts should be sent in pdf format by

15 September 2018

to any of the guest-editors (please, put ORGANON-F-MODAL-LOGIC-SUBMISSION as a subject):

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Feel free to contact the guest-editors for further information on the special issue and on the format of submissions.

Deodáth Zuh is giving a talk entitled 'Art History without Theory' at this year's Dubrovnik Philosophy of Art Conference on the 25th of April. The abstract of his talk could be accessed here, while the draft programme of the conference is available here.