Hylomorphism

International Conference

Hylomorphism

Caltech, Pasadena, Los Angeles, USA, May 23-24, 2008

Program

Friday, 23 May

09:00 – 10:00 Michael Edwards (Cambridge University), “Body, Soul and Anatomy in Late Aristotelian Psychology”

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30 Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania), “Mechanizing the Sensitive Soul”

11:30 – 12:30 Justin Smith (Concordia University), “How to Feed a Corporeal Substance: The Metaphysics of Nutrition from Fernel to Leibniz”

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Hiro Hirai (University of Ghent), “Atomism, Hylomorphism, and Biology in Daniel Sennert”

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Denis Des Chene (Washington University, St. Louis), “Pores and Corpuscles in the Schools”

17:00 – 18:00 Bill Newman (University of Indiana), “Daniel Sennert's Conversion to Atomism”

Saturday, 24 May

Morning Free

14:30 – 15:30 Tad Schmaltz (Duke University), “Substantial Form as Cause: From Suarez to Descartes”

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Roger Ariew (University of South Florida), “Descartes and His Critics on Matter and Form”

17:00 – 18:00 Daniel Garber (Princeton University), “Leibnizian Hylomorphism”