This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It is of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 Guido Giglioni (Macerata) Scaliger Bacon
Harvey: A Trajectory in the Early Modern History of Vegetative Life.
Chapter
2 Andreas Blank (Klagenfurt) Jacob Martini on Vegetative Powers and the
Question of Emergence.
Chapter 3 Oana Matei (Arad/Bucharest) Particles,
universal spirit, and seeds: John Evelyn's matter theory in Elysium
Britannicum.
Chapter 4 Riccardo Chiaradonna (Roma Tre) Plotinus and Ficino
in Ralph Cudworths philosophy of nature.
Chapter 5 Emanuela Scribano (Ca
Foscari University of Venice) Battles for nature: from Descartes to Boyle via
Harvey.
Chapter 6 Barnaby Hutchins (Klagenfurt) Mechanism as a
non-exhaustive ontology: Descartes and irreducibles.
Chapter 7 Delphine
Bellis (Paul Valéry University, Montpellier) Animal Life and the Human Mind
in Gassendis Philosophy.
Chapter 8 Antonio Clericuzio (Rome) Mechanisms of
Muscular Motion in 17th Century England.
Chapter 9 Claire Crignon (Paris)
Does the soul always think ? Observing partial insanity (Willis and Locke).-
Chapter 10 Antonio Nunziante (Padova) Nested Machines, Rule-Governed Series:
Leibniz's Integrated Model of Life.
Chapter 11 Raphaėle Andrault (CNRS-ENS
Lyon) The diachronic mechanism of Spinozas friends.
Chapter 12 Luca Tonetti
(Sapienza, Rome) Irritating drugs and affected solids: The notion of
stimulus in Baglivis pathology.
Chapter 13 Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero
(Ca Foscari University of Venice) Psychology and Mechanism: Christian Wolff
on the Soul-Body Analogy.
Chapter 14 Marco Storni (Ca Foscari University
of Venice) Mechanism, Matter and Force in Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuiss
Embryology.
Chapter 15 Cécilia Bognon-Küss (Paris-Diderot) Intussusception,
vital mechanisms and the ontology of life.
Chapter 16 Charles Wolfe (Ghent)
Expanded mechanism or heuristic vitalism?.
Chapter 17 Federico Boccaccini
(Brasilia) Mental Machinery and active powers from Hartley to Ward.
Chapter
18 Liesbet De Kock (VUB Brussels) Mechanism and Teleology in Psychological
Explanation: On Causes, Motives and the Methodological Versatility of Wilhelm
Wundts Scientific Psychology.
Chapter 19 Paolo Pecere (Roma Tre) Mechanism
and organisation of the mind from Kant to Helmholtz.
Chapter 20 Lydia
Patton (Virginia Tech) Vital Forces and Mental Activity: The Physiology of
Perception and the History of the Qualia Debate.
Charles T. Wolfe is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Université de Toulouse-2 Jean-Jaurčs. He works primarily in history and philosophy of the early modern life sciences, with a particular interest in materialism and vitalism. He is the author of Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction (2016), La philosophie de la biologie: une histoire du vitalisme (2019) and Lire le matérialisme (2020), and has edited or coedited volumes on monsters, brains, empiricism, biology and vitalism, including currently (w. D. Jalobeanu) the Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences and (w. J. Symons) The History and Philosophy of Materialism. He is co-editor of the book series History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (Springer).
Paolo Pecere is associate professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Roma Tre. His research ranges from early modern tocontemporary philosophy, natural science and psychology, with a focus on Kant and the Kantian legacy. His books include: La filosofia della natura in Kant (Pagina 2009), Dalla parte di Alice. La coscienza e limmaginario (Mimesis 2015), Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science. A Critical History (Springer 2020). His last book is the narrative essay Il dio che danza. Viaggi, trance, trasformazioni (nottetempo 2021).
Antonio Clericuzio is Professor of History of Science at the University of Roma Tre. He has held fellowhips from The Warburg Institute, The Wellcome Trust, The Royal Society, The Accademia dei Lincei. Clericuzio's research focuses on the history of matter theory, chemistry and medicine in the 16th and 17th century. He has published extensively on early modern atomism, Robert Boyle, Helmontianism and the history of life sciences. Clericuzio has published several books, including Elements, Principles and Atoms. Chemistry and Corpuscular Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (2000), La macchina del mondo (2005), Le scienze nel Rinascimento (with Germana Ernst), 2008; Interpretare e curare. Medicina e salute nel Rinascimento (with Andrea Carlino and Maria Conforti), 2013. He has co-edited The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 2001. His current book project focuses on Medicine, Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Italy.
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