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The aim of the conference is to bring to the fore the medical context of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ and to explore the complex connections between medicine and natural philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Medicine and natural philosophy interacted on many levels, from the practical imperative to restore and maintain the health of human bodies to theoretical issues on the nature of living matter and the powers of the soul to methodological concerns about the appropriate way to gain knowledge of natural things. And issues of life, generation, ageing, medicine, and vital activity were important topics of investigation for canonical actors of the Scientific Revolution, from Boyle, Hooke and Locke to Descartes and Leibniz. Recent efforts to recover the medical content and contexts of their projects have already begun to reshape our understanding of these key natural philosophers. Putting medical interests in the foreground also reveals connections with a wide variety of less canonical but historically important scientists, physicians, and philosophers, such as Petrus Severinus, Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Lodovico Settala, William Harvey, Richard Lower, Thomas Willis, Louis de la Forge, and Georg Ernst Stahl.  This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars of Renaissance and Early Modern science, medicine and philosophy to examine the projects of more and less canonical figures and trace perhaps unexpected interactions between medicine and other approaches to studying and understanding the natural world. Advance registration is appreciated. Please email pittcntr@pitt.edu to register.Center for Philosophy of Science817 Cathedral of LearningUniversity of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA USA Friday    12:00Introduction12:30Session: Integrating Studies of Medicine and Philosophy in Early ModernityChair: Ian Stewart, University of King's College1. The Aristotelian Problemata and Late-Renaissance Medical Philosophy. Craig Martin, Oakland University2. Galenism in the seventeenth century. Gideon Manning, Caltech3. Medicine, Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution.Dolores Iorizzo, University College, University College London2:45coffee break3:00Session: Surgeons and Clinicians: Changing Medical EpistemologiesChair: Kathryn Tabb, University of Pittsburgh1. The Practical Intellect: Some Contributions of Renaissance Surgeons. Cynthia Klestinec, Miami University (Ohio)2. Scepticism and the Clinical Anecdote. Alan Salter, University of Sydney4:30coffee break4:45Session: Disciplines in the Making: Biology and PathologyChair: James Lennox, University of Pittsburgh1. Epigenesis and/as Spinozism in Diderot’s biological project. Charles Wolfe, Ghent University2. Who Was the Vesalius of Pathology?. Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Indiana University Bloomington6:15adjourn     Saturday     9:00continental breakfast9:30Session: The Matter of LifeChair: Daniel Margocsy, Hunter College, CUNY1. Transplantation and Corpuscular Identity in Paracelsian Vital Philosophy. Jole Shackelford, University of Minnesota2. Mysteries of Living Corpuscles: Atomism and the Origin of Life in Sennert, Gassendi and Kircher. Hiro Hirai, Radboud University11:00coffee break11:15Session: Humors and SpiritsChair: John McCaskey, Stanford University1. Why All This Jelly? Jacopo Zabarella, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, and Julius Casserius on the Usefulness of the Vitreous Humor. Tawrin Baker, Indiana University Bloomington2. Louis de la Forge on the generation and function of animal spirits. Patricia Easton, Claremont Graduate University12:45two hour lunch on your own2:45Session: Anatomy between Experiment and TheoryChair:  Marcus Adams, University of Pittsburgh1. A Tale of Two Anatomies: William Harvey and Philosophical Anatomy. Benjamin Goldberg, East Tennessee State University2. A Mutual Divide: Experimental Anatomists vs. Speculative Cartesians in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Medicine. Evan Ragland, University of Alabama Huntsville4:15coffee break4:30Session: Influences on Boyle's Medical ProjectChair: Ashley Inglehart, Indiana University Bloomington1. Rethinking Robert Boyle's Medical Agenda: The Influence of Lady Katherine Ranelagh. Michelle DiMeo, College of Physicians of Philadelphia2. Life and active principles in Robert Boyle’s physiology. Antonio Clericuzio, University of Cassino6:30Conference dinner @ University Club     Sunday      9:00continental breakfast9:30Session: Mechanism and MechanicsChair: Allen Shotwell, Indiana University Bloomington1. ‘Mechanics’ in Harvey’s Anatomy: its varieties and limits. Peter Distelzweig, University of Pittsburgh2. Perrault, Duverney, and Animal Mechanics. Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University11:00coffee11:15Session: Health, Medicine, and PhilosophyChair: Peter Machamer, University of Pittsburgh1. G. W. Leibniz and Early Modern Medical Eudaimonism. Justin E. H. Smith, Concordia University, Montreal2. Mechanistic psychosomatics: the effects of the passions on health. Dennis Des Chene, Washington University, St. Louis12:45adjournOrganizing CommitteeJames Lennox (University of Pittsburgh)Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University, Bloomington)Charles Wolfe (Ghent University)Dennis Looney (University of Pittsburgh)Peter Distelzweig (University of Pittsburgh)Benjamin Goldberg (East Tennessee State University)