26 maggio 2025

Università degli studi di Torino (con la collaborazione dell’Università di Bonn e Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)

Istituto Scienza Nuova, Torino, Corso Montevecchio 38

The conference explores the philosophical concept of second nature and its relationship to realism, bringing together scholars from the University of Turin, the University of Bonn and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

The programme includes contributions on the anthropology of second nature and indirect realism, Spinoza’s concept of nature, and the question “Can We Count Natures?”. The afternoon concludes with a book symposium on Maurizio Ferraris’s La pelle (Il Mulino, 2025), featuring Maurizio Ferraris, Jocelyn Benoist, Markus Gabriel and Ana Ilievska.

Program
Morning

10.00-10.45 Etienne Bimbenet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon
Sorbonne), “L’anthropologie de la seconde nature et les chances
d’un réalisme indirect”.
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.00 Philip Freytag (University of Bonn), “Spinoza’s concept of
nature”.
Afternoon
15.00-15.45 Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn), “Can We Count
Natures?”.
15.45-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-18.15 Book Symposium: Maurizio Ferraris, La pelle, Il Mulino,
2025
Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin)
Jocelyn Benoist (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn)
Ana Ilievska (University of Bonn