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18th Century European Thought and the Nature-Culture Problem in Advanced Techno-Scientific Societies

University of Helsinki, Hotel Vuoranta

1 – 4. September 2004

 

 

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Edward Andrew: The deconstruction of conscience and the construction of natural taste in the eighteenth century (doc)

Donna T. Andrew: "Self-preservation none neglect but fools": custom, nature and suicide in eighteenth century England. (doc)

Tiina Arppe: Durkheim, Rousseau and passions (doc)

Jack Barbalet: Seventeenth-century precursors of Smith’s sentiments (doc)

Pasi Falk: Universe as artifact - from God's creation to digital physics

Snait Gissis: Interactions between 'the Social' and 'the Biological' - the case of Lamarck (doc)

Hajo Greif: The Darwinian Tension. Between Naturalism and Reductionism (pdf)

Ilpo Helén: What kind of depression? A historical excursion

Thierry HoquetAn epiqurian view on nature and laws: nature and civil history by Buffon and Montesquieu (doc)

Timo Kaitaro: Speaking apes and goat-men – nature and culture in 18th century French materialism (doc)

Petter Korkman: On what we share: nature in 18th century debates on natural religion and natural law (doc)

Martina Reuter: Nature and culture in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Short Residence

Hannu Sivenius: The birth of society from the spirit of music. Rousseau on passions, language and culture.

Luiz Carlos Soares: The mechanism and the intellectual background of the English industrial revolution (doc)

Pekka Sulkunen: Adam Smith and Bourdieu: what economy? (doc)

Olivier Tonneau: Diderot and the natural foundation of cultural laws (doc)

Mari-Anne Virkkala: 18th century garden architecture as a representation of the relationship between nature and culture (doc)

Charles T. Wolfe: The interplay of nature and artifice in Diderot's philosophy of nature (doc)

Kari Väyrynen: Natural and environmental hazards and the limits of anthropocentrism in Kant and Herder (doc)

Petri Ylikoski: Explaining morality - what 18th century protosociologists can teach to evolutionary psychologists? (pdf)