Colloque international

Materialism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

org. Aurélien Robert (CNRS – SPHere)

Jeudi 19 et vendredi 20 septembre 2024 – Université Paris-Cité – Bâtiment Condorcet, salle Valentin (454A)

Jeudi 19 Septembre :

Welcome – 9h00

The First Debates on Materialism
Chair : Clelia Crialesi (SPHERE-CNRS)

9h15-10h00 – Irene Caiazzo (LEM-CNRS-PSL) : Materialism in the Twelfth-Century Latin Cosmologies

10h00-10h45 – Nadia Bray (Università degli studi di Lecce) : The pre-Socratics in Albert’s criticism of David of Dinant

From Materiality to Materialism in the Late Middle Ages

11h00-11h45 – Marilena Panarelli (Università degli studi di Palermo/Humboldt Fellow) : From Matter to Substance : Rational Analysis of Drug Features in 14th Century Pharmacology

11h45-12h30 – Kellie Robertson (University of Maryland) : Mastering the Weather : Materiality and the Premodern Natural Disaster

Matter, its Properties and the Status of the Soul
Chair : Chiara Beneduce (SPHERE-CNRS)

14h00-14h45 – Olaf Pluta (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) : Materialism in the Philosophy of Mind

15h45-16h30 – Sylvain Roudaut (KU Leuven) : Theories of modes and the dangers of « materialism » in the 14th century.

16h30-17h15 – Joël Biard (Université de Tours) : Blaise de Parme et le matérialisme des « anciens physiciens » : reprise et dépassement

14h45-15h30 – Robert Zambiasi (KULeuven) : Can Plants and Non-Human Animals Grow? The ‘Reductionist’ Implications of a Fourteenth-Century Debate

Vendredi 20 Septembre :

Welcome – 9h30

Materialism in Early Modern Universities
Chair : Charles T. Wolfe (Université de Toulouse)

9h45-10h30 – Eva Del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania) : Did Aristotle support ‘ex nihilo, nihil fit’? An Early Modern Quarrel

10h30-11h15 – Luca Burzelli (Universität Siegen – KU Leuven) :The Pomponazzi-Affaire, Final Chapter. The human soul as a substance extensa in the commentary on De generatione et corruptione

11h30-12h15 – Elisabeth Moreau (Université libre de Bruxelles) : Material Propensity and Affinity in Andrea Cesalpino’s Medical Philosophy (1593)

From Ancient and Medieval Theories to Renaissance and Modern Materialism
Chair : Fosca Mariani Zini (Université de Tours)

14h00-14h45 – Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Università Ca Foscari – Venezia) :
Ancient and Medieval Sources of Cosmological Materialism in the Renaissance

14h45-15h30 – Ada Palmer (University of Chicago) : Why So Many Histories of Radicalism Blur the Line Between Atheist and Deist Materialisms ?

15h45-16h30 – Round Table with the participation of :  Véronique Decaix
(Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Fosca Mariani Zini (Université de Tours), Pierre-Marie Morel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Charles T. Wolfe (Université de Toulouse)

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