18th Century European Thought and the Nature-Culture Problem in Advanced Techno-Scientific Societies
University of Helsinki, Hotel Vuoranta
1 – 4. September 2004
Participants
Prof. Edward Andrew - University of Toronto, Division of
social sciences - The deconstruction of conscience and the construction
of natural taste in the eighteenth century
Prof. Donna T. Andrew - University of Guelph, Department of History - "Self-preservation none neglect but fools": custom, nature and suicide in eighteenth century England.
D.Soc.Sc. Tiina Arppe - University of Helsinki,
Department of Sociology - Durkheim, Rousseau and passions
Prof. Jack Barbalet - University of Leicester, Department
of Sociology - Seventeenth-century precursors of Smith’s sentiments
Prof. Pasi Falk - University of Helsinki, Collegium for Advanced Studies - Universe as artifact - from God's creation to digital physics
Prof. Steve Fuller - University of Warwick, Department
of Sociology - A plea on behalf of a defunct 18th century concept: humanity
PhD Snait Gissis - Tel Aviv University, Cohn Institute
for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas - Interactions between
'the Social' and 'the Biological' - the case of Lamarck
PhD Hajo Greif - Institute for Advanced Studies on Science,
Technology and Society - The Darwinian Tension. Between Naturalism and Reductionism
Prof. Ian Hacking - Collège de France - La Mettrie, the wonderful medical materialist
D.Soc.Sc. Ilpo Helén - University of Helsinki, Department of Sociology - What kind of depression? A historical excursion
PhD Thierry Hoquet - University of Montpellier III, Department of Philosophy - An epiqurian view on nature and laws: nature and civil history by Buffon and Montesquieu
PhD Timo Kaitaro - University of Joensuu, Department
of Law - Speaking apes and goat-men – nature and culture in
18th century French materialism
PhD Petter Korkman - University of Helsinki, Collegium for Advanced Studies - On what we share: nature in 18th century debates on natural religion and natural law
PhD Martina Reuter - University of Helsinki, Department of Philosophy - Nature and culture in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Short Residence
PhL Mari-Anne Virkkala - University of Oulu, Department of History - Art from nature – 18th century garden architecture as a representation of the relationship between nature and culture
MA Hannu Sivenius - University of Helsinki, Department of Philosophy - Rousseau...
Prof. Luiz Carlos Soares - Fluminese Federal University, Department of History - The mechanism and the intellectual background of the English industrial revolution
Prof. Pekka Sulkunen - University of Helsinki, Department of Sociology - Adam Smith and Bourdieu: what economy?
Olivier Tonneau - Diderot and the natural foundation of cultural laws
PhL Mari-Anne Virkkala - University of Oulu, Department of History - Art from nature - 18th century garden architecture as a representation of the relationship between nature and culture
Charles T. Wolfe - University of Boston, Department of Philosophy - The interplay of nature and artifice in Diderot's philosophy of nature
PhD Kari Väyrynen - University of Oulu, Department of History - Natural and environmental hazards and the limits of anthropocentrism in Kant and Herder
D.Soc.Sc. Petri Ylikoski - University of Helsinki, Collegium
for Advanced Studies - Explaining morality - what 18th century protosociologists
can teach to evolutionary psychologists?