18th Century European Thought
and the Nature-Culture Problem in Advanced Techno-Scientific Societies
University of Helsinki,
Hotel
Vuoranta
1 – 4. September 2004

Papers
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 Hoquet: An 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)