Early Modern Mechanisms and the Contemporary Mechanisms Debate (Part 1)

  1. Barnaby Hutchins (Ghent University) – Reductionism and integrationism in Descartes's biology
  2. Peter Distelzweig (Western Michigan University) – “Mechanics” and Mechanism in William Harvey’s Anatomy: Varieties and Limits
  3. Charles Wolfe (Ghent University) – Mechanism, capital m and mechanisms, little m: ontological considerations, heuristics and analogies
Event type: 
Symposium
Chair: 
Zvi Biener
Date and time: 
Friday, July 4, 2014 - 11:00 to 13:00
Location: 
Auditorium A