BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241126T000000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 RDATE:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291028T020000 RDATE:20300331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20301027T020000 RDATE:20310330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20311026T020000 RDATE:20320328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280326T030000 RDATE:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 RDATE:20291028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20300331T030000 RDATE:20301027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20310330T030000 RDATE:20311026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1b14c0aaaa6a70cc63977d2fdcd68b1d CATEGORIES:Convegni CREATED:20251116T130400 SUMMARY:Animal Minds in the Early Modern Age DESCRIPTION: "What is an animal? This is one of those questions that prove all the more puzzling the more one knows about philosophy”.\nThe entry on “animal” of t he Encyclopédie wasn’t alone in voicing this predicament. Debates on the na ture of animals loomed large throughout the early modern age, and grew to t he point of calling into question as fundamental issues as the general meta physics of the mind and the overall epistemology of perception. Their far-r eaching implications challenged theology, culture and society at large: suf fice it to consider the controversies over the mortality of the soul and th e growing concerns over animal exploitation. Early modern thinkers conceive d of animals in the most disparate fashions: as blind pieces of clockwork o r, at the opposite, as fully rational beings, capable of outsmarting humans . Polemics escalated to the point that, by the eighteenth century, “one cat was enough to disarrange all of philosophy”.\nThe conference investigates the competing theories of the animal mind worked out from the Italian Renai ssance to the German Enlightenment, and their broader implications for the philosophical and scientific debates of the time, all over Europe. The conf erence intends thereby to provide new insights into the shifting understand ing of the human-animal divide and the early modern theory of the mind – in deed, of minds.\nThe conference can be attended via this link (https://zoom .us/j/97892586475?pwd=he2xtjRFab42DPsja0Ryab51bKfSc5.1).\n(Meeting ID: 978 9258 6475; Passcode: 7KcryH): \nFor any query – please email  (mailto:matti a.mantovani@kuleuven.be)Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.\nFor more info, see the web s ite (https://hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/events/agenda/conference-animal-minds-in- the-early-modern-age-november2025).\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

 

"What is an animal? This is one of those questions that p rove all the more puzzling the more one knows about philosophy”.

The entry on “animal” of the Encyclopédie wasn’t alone in voicing this predicam ent. Debates on the nature of animals loomed large throughout the early mod ern age, and grew to the point of calling into question as fundamental issu es as the general metaphysics of the mind and the overall epistemology of p erception. Their far-reaching implications challenged theology, culture and society at large: suffice it to consider the controversies over the mortal ity of the soul and the growing concerns over animal exploitation. Early mo dern thinkers conceived of animals in the most disparate fashions: as blind pieces of clockwork or, at the opposite, as fully rational beings, capable of outsmarting humans. Polemics escalated to the point that, by the eighte enth century, “one cat was enough to disarrange all of philosophy”.

T he conference investigates the competing theories of the animal mind worked out from the Italian Renaissance to the German Enlightenment, and their br oader implications for the philosophical and scientific debates of the time , all over Europe. The conference intends thereby to provide new insights i nto the shifting understanding of the human-animal divide and the early mod ern theory of the mind – indeed, of minds.

The conference can be atte nded via this link.
(Meeting ID: 978 9258 6475; Passcode: 7 KcryH): 

For any query – please email Questo indirizzo email è protetto da gli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

For more info, see the web site.

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