YET ANOTHER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY GERMAN PHILOSOPHY

Is there a third independent, naturalistic, and ‘scientific’ current?

An Italian-German Colloquium in the framework of our research project on a re-interpretation of the development of XVIII-century German philosophy. We aim to identify a third and independent, naturalistic, and ‘scientific’ current, that evolves alongside the well-studied wolffian-metaphyisical and practical-empirical currents.that evolves alongside the well-studied wolffian-metaphyisical and practical-empirical currents.

University of Turin, Torino, 3-4 June 2014.

PROGRAM

Tuesday 3 June
15.00-15.15
Welcome address from the University of Turin
Chair: Massimo Ferrari
15.15-16.00
Enrico Pasini
Introduction: It All Began with Tschirnhaus
16.00-17.00
Charles Wolfe
From Locke to Materialism (Empiricism to Ontology)
17.00-17.30 Coffee break
17.30- 18.30
Ursula Goldenbaum
The Threat of Pre-Established Harmony
Wednesday 4 June
Chair: Enrico Pasini
09.30-10-30
Matteo Favaretti
Christian Wolff and the Philosophy of Medicine
10.30-11.30
Gideon Stiening
Zwischen Experiment und System. J.G. Krügers Psychologie und Naturlehre
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.00
Falk Wunderlich
August Wilhelm Hupel’s Naturalistic Materialism
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
Chair: Massimo Mori
15.00-16.00
Paola Basso
Leibniz-Lambert-Lange and the Topological Paradigm of Thought
16.00-17.00
Paola Rumore
The Early Reception of La Mettrie in Germany
17.00-17.30 Coffee break
17.30-18.30
Paolo Pecere
Between Monadology and Materialism: Kant’s “Newtonian” Way Out of Metaphysical Controversies
18.30-19.00 Conclusion

Organizzazione

Gruppo di Ricerca fMOD (http://www.filosofia.unito.it/fmod)
P.R.I.N. 2010-11 “Realismo e oggettività”
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell’Educazione dell’Università di Torino
Dottorato di ricerca in Filosofia — Consorzio FiNO