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Title: | UTCP Seminar "How Humans Became Organisms: Some Reflections on the Transition from the Soul-Body-Problem to the Organism-Milieu-Interface"Finished |
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| Date: | 16:30-18:30, December 7, 2009 |
Place: | Seminar Room, 2F, Building 101, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo [Map] |
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Speaker: Tobias Cheung (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and Institute for Culture and Science, Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Abstract:
Throughout the eighteenth century, models of organic order interact with debates about the soul-body-interface. This constellation culminates around 1800 in various physical anthropologies (for example in Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis’ Homme physique et moral). A second transformation occurs in the second third of the nineteenth century when physiologists and philosophers like Henri de Blainville and Auguste Comte try to establish a new synthesis of knowledge about the human. Their synthesis is based on organism-milieu-interfaces. The talk focuses on some aspects and consequences of both transformations.
Language: English; Admission Free; No Registration Required
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