University Paris-Diderot
Building Halle aux farines*
Friday: room 275F, Saturday: room 479F
– Programme: Friday, December 12, Saturday, December 13
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Embodiment —having, being in, or being associated with a body— is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition has often been held to be a philosophical problem. This problem is seen as including, but also going beyond, the problem of body —that is, what a body is, and how, if at all, it differs from matter— but includes much else besides. On some understandings there may exist bodies, such as stones or asteroids, that are not the bodies of any particular subjects. To speak of embodiment by contrast is always to speak of a subject that finds itself variously inhabiting, or captaining, or being coextensive with, or even being imprisoned in, a body. The reasons, nature, and consequences of the embodiment of subjects as conceived in the long history of Western philosophy, both alone and in contact with theology, art, medicine, and other domains of culture, will be the focus of this meeting, which brings together the contributors to an anticipated volume on embodiment for the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series.
Sarah Byers (Boston College), Lesley-Anne Dyer (Baylor University ),
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University),
Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College), Philippe Huneman (IHPST, Paris),
Helen Lang (Villanova University), Ohad Nachtomy (Bar Ilan University), Rafael Nájera (Brown University),
Alison Peterman (Rochester University), Justin E. H. Smith (University Paris Diderot, SPHERE),
Charles Wolfe (Ghent University)
Organisation du colloque:
Justin E. H. Smith
With generous support of
the Departement of History & Philosophy of Science, University Paris Diderot,
the Institut of the Humanities in Paris
& the Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR7219 –CNRS, Universities Paris Diderot and Paris 1) .
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12
room 275F, level 2, building Halle aux farines, 10 rue Françoise Dolto, 75013 Paris
Opening remarks : Justin Erik Halldór Smith (University Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Session I Présidence: David Rabouin (CNRS, SPHERE)
10:00–11:15
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)
The Body of Western Embodiment: Classical Antiquity and the Early History of a Problem
11:15–12:30
Rafael Nájera (Brown University)
God, Angels, and Humans: Scholastic Philosophers on the Role of the Body in Knowledge
Session II
13:30–14:45
Ohad Nachtomy (Bar Ilan University)
Embodiment, Nestedness, and Individuality in Leibniz’s view of Living Beings
14:45–16:00
Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College)
’God Embodied’: Hobbes’s Corporeal Deity
16:15–17:15
Discussion of the ’Reflections’ Section in the OPC Series
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13
room 479F, level 4, building Halle aux farines, 10 rue Françoise Dolto, 75013 Paris
Session III
Presidence: Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (University Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
9:30–10:45
Alison Peterman (University of Rochester)
Spinoza on Feeling Embodied
10:45–12:00
Lesley-Anne Dyer (Baylor University)
Paradoxes of Embodiment in the Plotinus’ Enneads
12:00–13:15
Sarah Byers (Boston College)
Philosophical Puzzles about Embodiment: Life, Death, Flesh, Body and Soul in Augustine
Session IV
14:30–15:45
Philippe Huneman (IHPST, Paris) and Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent University)
Man-Machines and Embodiment from La Mettrie to Bernard
15:45–17:00
Helen Lang (Villanova University)
Embodied or Ensouled? Aristotle on the Relation of Soul and Body
17:15–18:15
Planning meeting for the Oxford Philosophical Concepts volume
For more information on the OPC series, please visit:
http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/oxford/
University Paris Diderot, salle 275F (Friday), 479F (Saturday)
Building Halle aux farines, 10, rue Françoise Dolto, 75013 Paris
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