International Conference
Justus Lipsius and Natural Philosophy
Friday 30 November 2007
“Auditorium Rubens”
Rue Ducale / Hertogsstraat 1
Brussels
Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) is often remembered in the context of the history of Neostoic moral and political philosophy. Departing from such commonly accepted treatments, the present international conference aims to tackle his natural philosophy and influence on early modern science, by concentrating on his treatise Physiologia stoicorum (Antwerp, 1604), which also shows considerable Platonic and Hermetic dimensions and thus is more than a simple restoration of the ancient Stoic physics.
Participants & Programme
Welcome & Opening
9:00-9:15
Fernand Hallyn (Director, Centre for History of Science, Ghent)
Introduction
Session 1
9:15-10:00
Jacqueline Lagrée (Rennes 1)
Natural Philosophy as Metaphysics
10:00-10:45
Jan Papy (Louvain)
Lipsius, Atoms and Pneuma: Stoic Physics and the Neostoic Reading of the World
10:45-11:00
Coffee
Session 2
11:00-11:45
Bernard Joly (Lille 3)
Principe, élément ou
qualité: le problème du feu dans la physique stoïcienne de
Juste Lipse
11:45-12:30
Hiro Hirai (Ghent)
Lipsius on the World-Soul between Roman Cosmic Theology and Renaissance ‘Prisca Theologia’
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Session 3
14:00-14:45
Gianni Paganini (Piemonte)
Les enjeux de la
cosmobiologie à la fin de la Renaissance: Juste Lipse et Giordano Bruno
14:45-15:30
Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute, London) Justus Lipsius and the Notion of ‘Oikeiosis’
15:30-16:15
Annelies van Gijsen (Antwerp)
Lipsius and Ranzovius on Stars and Fate
16:15-16:30
Coffee
Session 4
16:30-17:15
Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest)
Lipsius’s Influence on English Natural Philosophy
17:15-18:00
Alexander Roose (Ghent)
Desire for Knowledge and Wisdom of the World
Organized by Fernand Hallyn & Hiro Hirai, Centre
for History of Science,