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• 30 mar 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Fondements de l'éthique médiévale : Dieu, l'homme et la nature

  La question des fondements de l’éthique médiévale se situe plus que toute autre à la croisée des chemins. Le terme de « fondements » peut en effet s’entendre dans une perspective historique, au sein de laquelle l’historien de la philosophie s’attache à suivre l’évolution des contenus de l’éthique en interaction avec divers facteurs sociaux, culturels et textuels, mais aussi comme une réflexion sur les conditions métaphysiques de l’existence d’une éthique. Destinée à donner la parole aux jeunes chercheurs en philosophie médiévale, doctorants ou post-doctorants, cette journée d'études sera centrée sur l'éthique au Moyen Âge et la question de ses fondements, tant épistémologiques que métaphysique, anthropologiques ou théologiques.

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• 27 fév 2015

  Palermo

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Feeding animals/Eating animals. Theories, Attitudes and Cultural Representations of Nutrition in Ancient and Medieval World

  Memoria scientiae 2015

  According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and  anthroposphere on the other hand.

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• 18 déc 2014

  Palermo

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Memoria scientiae 2015: Feeding animals/Eating animals

  Theories, attitudes and cultural representations of nutrition in ancient and medieval world

  According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and  anthroposphere on the other hand.

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• 06 déc 2014

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Shaping the Brain

  In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

  The brain has, throughout history, been considered an important achievement in the creation of man, although often secondary to the soul and the heart. Our knowledge about how the brain has been conceived in the past is, however, very fractional, especially for the late Medieval and early modern periods. This conference looks to re-situate the question of knowing the brain anew in a dialogue between medicine (anatomy, physiology and pathology) and natural philosophy (inter alia physics, biology and psychology). 

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