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
