<p>Introduction</p><p>Chapter 1 Guido Giglioni (Macerata) Scaliger Bacon Harvey: A Trajectory in the Early Modern History of Vegetative Life</p><p>Chapter 2 Andreas Blank (Klagenfurt) Jacob Martini on Vegetative Powers and the Question of Emergence</p><p>Chapter 3 Oana Matei (Arad/Bucharest) Particles, universal spirit, and seeds: John Evelyn's matter theory in Elysium Britannicum</p><p>Chapter 4 Riccardo Chiaradonna (Roma Tre) Plotinus and Ficino in Ralph Cudworth’s philosophy of nature</p><p>Chapter 5 Emanuela Scribano (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Battles for nature: from Descartes to Boyle via Harvey</p><p>Chapter 6 Barnaby Hutchins (Klagenfurt) Mechanism as a non-exhaustive ontology: Descartes and irreducibles</p><p>Chapter 7 Delphine Bellis (Paul Valéry University, Montpellier) Animal Life and the Human Mind in Gassendi’s Philosophy</p><p>Chapter 8 Antonio Clericuzio (Rome) Mechanisms of Muscular Motion in 17th Century England</p><p>Chapter 9 Claire Crignon (Paris) Does the soul always think ? Observing partial insanity (Willis and Locke)</p><p>Chapter 10 Antonio Nunziante (Padova) Nested Machines, Rule-Governed Series: Leibniz's Integrated Model of Life</p><p>Chapter 11 Raphaële Andrault (CNRS-ENS Lyon) The diachronic mechanism of Spinoza’s friends</p><p>Chapter 12 Luca Tonetti (Sapienza, Rome) Irritating drugs and affected solids: The notion of “stimulus” in Baglivi’s pathology</p><p>Chapter 13 Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Psychology and Mechanism: Christian Wolff on the Soul-Body Analogy</p><p>Chapter 14 Marco Storni (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Mechanism, Matter and Force in Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis’s Embryology</p><p>Chapter 15 Cécilia Bognon-Küss (Paris-Diderot) Intussusception, vital mechanisms and the ontology of life</p><p>Chapter 16 Charles Wolfe (Ghent) Expanded mechanism or heuristic vitalism?</p><p>Chapter 17 Federico Boccaccini (Brasilia) Mental Machinery and active powers from Hartley to Ward</p><p>Chapter 18 Liesbet De Kock (VUB Brussels) Mechanism and Teleology in Psychological Explanation: On Causes, Motives and the Methodological Versatility of Wilhelm Wundt’s Scientific Psychology</p><p>Chapter 19 Paolo Pecere (Roma Tre) Mechanism and “organisation of the mind” from Kant to Helmholtz</p><p>Chapter 20 Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) Vital Forces and Mental Activity: The Physiology of Perception and the History of the Qualia Debate<br></p>
