18th Century European Thought and the Nature-Culture Problem in Advanced Techno-Scientific Societies
University of Helsinki, Hotel Vuoranta
1 – 4. September 2004
Symposium program
Wednesday 1 Sep
18.15 Open lecture by Ian Hacking: Authenticity: The postman knocks.
Snellmaninkatu 3, the city campus of University of Helsinki.
21.00 Snack and welcoming drinks at Hotel Vuoranta
Thursday 2 Sep
7.30-9.00 Breakfast
9.00
Pekka Sulkunen: Opening of the symposium
9.10
Prof. Emeritus Matti Klinge: Introduction à la scène
intellectuelle du 18e siècle.
Une perspective contemporaire
9.30 Judgement
Chair: Pekka Sulkunen
Discussant:
Charles T. Wolfe
Petter Korkman: On what we share: nature in 18th century debates on natural religion and natural law
Timo Kaitaro: Speaking apes and goat-men: nature and culture in eighteenth-century French materialism
Break
Olivier Tonneau: Diderot and the natural foundation of cultural laws
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Ian Hacking: La Mettrie, the wonderful medical materialist
14.00 Coffee
14.30 Judgement
Chair: Luiz Carlos Soares
Discussant: Jack Barbalet
Edward
Andrew: The deconstruction of
conscience and the construction
of natural taste in the 18th century
Thierry Hoquet: An
Epicurian view on nature and laws: natural and civil
history by Buffon and Montesquieu
15.50 Break
16.00 -17.50 Evolution
Chair:
Petter Korkman
Discussant: Erkki Kilpinen
Petri Ylikoski: Explaining morality - what 18th century protosociologists can teach to evolutionary psychologists?
Snait Gissis: Interactions between ‘the Social’ and ‘the Biological’- the case of Lamarck
Hajo Greif:
The
darwinian tension. Between reductionism and romanticism
19.00 Dinner
Friday 3 Sep
7.30-9.00 Breakfast
9.00
Emotions
Chair: Matti Klinge
Discussant: Risto Eräsaari
Martina Reuter:
Nature and culture in Mary
Wollstonecraft’s A Short
Residence
Jack Barbalet: Seventeenth-century precursors of Smith’s sentiments
Break
Chair: Matti Klinge
Discussant: Thierry Hoquet
Tiina Arppe: Durkheim, Rousseau and passions
Hannu
Sivenius:
The birth of society from the
spirit of music. Rousseau
on passions, language and culture
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Steve Fuller: A plea on behalf of a defunct 18th century concept: humanity
14.00 Coffee
14.30 Environment
Chair: Martina Reuter
Discussant: Edward Andrew
Kari Väyrynen: Natural and environmental hazards and the limits of anthropocentrism in Kant and Herder
Mari-Anne Virkkala: Art from nature – 18th century garden architecture as a representation of the relationship between nature and culture
15.50 Break
16.00-17.20 Body
Chair: Snait Gissis
Discussant: Tiina Arppe
Ilpo Helén: What kind of depression? A historical excursion
Donna T. Andrew: "Self-preservation none neglect but fools": custom, nature and suicide in eighteenth century England.
17.30 Sauna
Saturday 4 Sep
7.30-9.00 Breakfast
9.00 Artefact
Chair: Donna T. Andrew
Discussant: Steve Fuller
Charles T. Wolfe: The interplay of nature and artifice in Diderot’s philosophy of nature
Pekka Sulkunen: Adam Smith and Bourdieu: what economy?
Break
Chair: Donna T. Andrew
Discussant: Petri Ylikoski
Pasi Falk: Universe as Artefact - from God’s creation to digital physics
Luiz Carlos Soares: The mechanism and the intellectual background of the English industrial revolution
12.00 Pekka Sulkunen: closing
12.30 Lunch