FLORENCE CENTER FOR THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM - ITALY

CORPOREAL SUBSTANCES AND THE LABYRINTH
OF THE CONTINUUM IN LEIBNIZ

An International Workshop

Firenze, November 23-25, 2000
California State University
Via Leopardi, 12 - Firenze

PROGRAMME

 Thursday, November 23

9.00 Welcome to the participants

Chair:  S. POGGI (Firenze)
9.15 D. GARBER (Chicago)
Leibniz and Fardella on Body and the External World
10.15 H. POSER (Berlin)
Are Leibnizís Monads Corporeal Substances? Old Answers to a New Problem
11.15 Break
11.30 P. PHEMISTER (Liverpool)
Corporeal Substances, the Composition of the Continuum, and the Distinction between the Real and the Ideal

Chair:  M.L. DALLA CHIARA (Firenze)
15.00 J. SMITH (Oxford, Ohio)
Aggregate, Organism, and Composite Substance in Leibnizís Mature Theory of Continuity (1704-1716)
16.00 S. LEVEY (Darthmouth)
Sharp Boundaries, Vague Bodies: Leibniz on the Sorites and the Continuum
17.00 Break
17.15 B. LOOK (Lexington)
Idealism and the Ideals of Mechanism
 

Friday, November 24

Chair:  L. CATALDI MADONNA (LíAquila)
9.00 N. GUICCIARDINI (Siena)
Did Leibniz Accept Newtonís Limit Theory in 1710ca?
10.00 D. BERTOLONI MELI (Bloomington)
Autonomous and Heteronomous Views in Leibniz: Comment to Guicciardiniís Paper
11.00 Break
11.15 A. SAVILE (London)
Composite Substances and the Persistence of Organic Things

Chair:  W. LENZEN (Osnabrück)
15.00 PH. BEELEY (Hamburg)
A Question of Approach? Material Bodies, Ideal Entities, and the Continuum in Leibniz
16.00 F. DUCHESNEAU (Montreal)
The Nature of Leibnizian Organic Bodies
17.00 Break
17.15 M. MUGNAI (Firenze)
Leibnizís Nominalism and the Reality of Corporeal Substances

Saturday, November 25

Chair:  H. SCHEPERS (Münster)
9.00 E. PASINI (Torino)
Disembodying Corporeal Substances
10.00 G. HARTZ (Mansfield, Ohio)
ëDivisibleí and ëDividedí in Leibnizís Mereology of Body
11.00 Break
11.15 R. ARTHUR (Middlebury)
On Leibnizís Solution to Zenoís Dychotomy
 

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