Galen and the Early Moderns

Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero is Associate Professor at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on early modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant with a special interest in metaphysics, logic, rational theology, the philosophy of biology and medicine, the mind-body problem, and the theories of knowledge, language, and modalities. His publications include two books, Filum cogitandi: Leibniz e la conoscenza simbolica (Milan 2007) and Conoscenza simbolica: Pensiero e linguaggio in Christian Wolff e nella prima età moderna (Hildesheim 2009), five co-edited volumes, and several articles and book chapters on Leibniz, Wolff, their sources, and their influence.Emanuela Scribano is Professor Emeritus of the History of Philosophy at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her main research interests are in the history of early modern philosophy. She has published widely on early modern metaphysics, epistemology, rational theology, and philosophy of science, with a focus on Descartes and Spinoza. She has recently investigated the relation between metaphysics and physiology in Cartesian thought. Her publications include L’existence de Dieu. Histoire de la preuve ontologique de Descartes à Kant (Seuil, 2002); Macchine con la mente. Fisiologia e metafisica tra Cartesio e Spinoza (Carocci 2015); A Reading Guide to Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (St. Augustine’s Press, 2016); Anges et bienheureux (Vrin, 2021).

• H Darrel Rutkin On Critical Days: Galen’s Treatise on Astrological Medicine and its Influence in Early Modern Europe.- Craig Martin Galenic Causation in the Theoretical and Practical Medicine of Giambattista Da Monte.- Guido Giglioni Galen and the Irritable Self: Reading De Naturalibus Facultatibus in the Early Modern Period.- Fabrizio Baldassarri - Robert Vinkesteijn In the Beginning was the Plant: The Plant-Animal Continuity in the Early Modern Debate On Galen.- Brunello Lotti Galen as a Source for Natural Theology in Early Modern British Philosophy.- Gideon Manning How to Identify a Galenist: The Case of Robert Boyle.- Claire Crignon Locke on Diseases and Respiration: Reading the Galenic Account of the Battle Between Medical Sects.- Emanuela Scribano The use of parts. Mechanism against Galen.- Raphaële Andrault Teleological Anatomy: The Case of Leibniz’s Hymnus Galeni.-Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero Christian Wolff’s Mechanization of Galen.- Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet Galen’s Eclectic Methodology in the Late German Enlightenment .- Charles T. Wolfe Galen’s contribution to the history of materialism.