THE THREE SOULS
in the History of Medicine and Natural Philosophy
5-6 October 2018
Reid Hall, Paris
Programme
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Friday 5 October
1:30-1:45 Arrival, coffee
1:45-2:00 Welcome and presentation by Noga Arikha and Justin E. H. Smith
Introduction
2:00-2:30 Laura Bossi
"A Brief History of a Pervasive Idea"
2:30-2:45 Discussion
Session 1
2:45-3:15 Sophia Connell
"The Three Souls in Aristotle’s Biology"
3:15-3:45 Karl-Léo Schwering
"Animism and the Work of Identification in Medicine: The Case of Organ Transplantation"
3:45-4:00 Discussion
4:00-4:15 Coffee break
Session 2
4:15-4:45 Guido Giglioni
"Galen on Selfhood in the Renaissance"
4:45-5:15 Philippe Huneman
"The Three Souls, the Two Lives, and the Functions: Some Remarks on Natural History, Experimental Physiology, and Kantianism"
5:15-5:30 Discussion
5:30-6:00 General discussion
6:00-7:30 Cocktails
8:30 Dinner for participants
Saturday 6 October
8:45-9:00 Coffee
Session 3
9:00-9:30 Justin E.H. Smith
"The Fourth Soul: Aristotle on Air as Ambient psukhē"
9:30-10:00 George Makari
"Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind"
10:00-10:15 Discussion
Session 4
10:15-10:45 Laurent Cohen
"The Fragmented Soul"
10:45-11:15 Noga Arikha
"Psyche, Soma, and the Self"
11:15-11:30 Discussion
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:15 General discussion
12:15-2:00 Lunch
Session 5
2:00-2:30 Kathryn Tabb
"Madness in the Sensitive Soul"
2:30-3:00 Didier Sicard
"The Body’s Soul"
3:00-3:15 Discussion
Session 6
3:15-3:45 Charles T. Wolfe
"Trajectories in the Naturalisation of the Soul: Mind and Life"
3:45-4:15 Marta Spranzi
"Disorders of Consciousness, Neuroimaging and the Illusion of Objective Ethical Standards"
4:15-4:30 Discussion
4:30-4:45 Coffee break
4:45-5:15 Manos Tsakiris
"Heartfelt Self: Going Beyond Cardiocentrism and Encephalocentrism"
5:15-5:45 General discussion
Break
Keynote
6:00-6:45 Siri Hustvedt
"Never Mind, or: Plato, Placebo, Placenta"
6:45-7:00 Discussion
7:00 Cocktails
Related to session 1. A very good encyclopedia article about animism https://www.themystica.com/animism/
Posted by: John | October 20, 2018 at 05:04 PM