Programme
12 FEBRUARY
- 9.30am-10am Welcome
Section I : Anatomy and Paleontology
- 10.00am-10.45am. Troels Kardel (Copenhagen), “Niels Stensen’s Research on the Brain and the Muscles as an Examination of Descartes’s Claims.”
- 11am-11.45am. Raphaele Andrault (CNRS, UMR 5037, ENS-Lyon), “Observing the Human Machine. The Discourse on the Anatomy of the Brain.”
- 12am-12.45am. Justin E. H. Smith (University of Paris VII), “Steno’s Paleontology : Thinking from Traces.”
1pm-2.30pm. Lunch
Section II : Natural theology/ Natural philosophy
- 2.30pm-3.15pm : Ole Peter Grell (Open University, UK), “Steno’s Natural Philosophy before his Conversion.”
- 3.30pm-4.15pm : Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen (Copenhagen), “Nicholas Steno and Natural Theology.”
- 4.30pm.-5.15pm : Daniel Garber (Princeton University), “Steno, Leibniz, and the History of the World.”
13 FEBRUARY
Section III : Steno in Italy
- 10.00am-10.45am. Jakob Bek Thomsen (Aarhus University), “Steno’s History of Nature : A look at the influence of thehistoriagenre during the reign of Ferdinando II.”
- 11am-11.45am. Pina Totaro (ILIESI-CNR, Università di Roma Sapienza), “Niels Stensen in Italy. Science and faith between Florence and Rome.”
- 12am-12.45am. Frank Sobiech (University of Würzburg), “Steno as teacher of the philosophia christiana or philosophia naturalis at the Tuscan court, 1675-1677.”
1pm-2.30pm : Lunch
Section IV : Encountering philosophers
- 2.30pm-3.15pm : Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands/Leiden University), “Steno, Swammerdam and Spinoza.”
- 3.30pm-4.15pm : Mogens Lærke (CNRS, UMR 5037, ENS-Lyon), “Métaphysique à quatre. Leibniz, Spinoza, Tschirnhaus... and Steno, 1675-1678.”
- 4.30pm-5.15pm. Vasiliki Grigoropoulou (University of Athens), “Steno’s Critique of Descartes and Louis De La Forge’s Response.”
Information
Attendance is free, but registration obligatory. Please write mogenslaerke hotmail.com to be added to the list of attendees. Please note that lunches are for speakers only.
For information about the event, please write Mogens Lærke (mogenslaerke hotmail.com) or Raphaële Andrault (raphaele.andrault ens-lyon.fr).
Lieu
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