Infinity and life: the role of infinity in Leibniz's theory of living beings / Ohad Nachtomy -- What is life? A comparative study of Ralph Cudworth and Nehemiah Grew / Raphaële Andrault -- The impossibility of a "Newton of the blade of grass" in Kant's teleology / Thomas Teufel -- Fabricius's Galeno-Aristotelian teleomechanics of muscle / Peter Distelzweig -- Metaphysical problems in Francis Glisson's theory of irritability / Anne-Lise Rey -- The organism-mechanism relationship: an issue in the Leibniz-Stahl controversy / François Duchesneau -- Material causes and incomplete entities in Gallego de la Serna's theory of animal generation / Andreas Blank -- Biology and theology in Malebranche's theory of organic generation / Karen Detlefsen -- Réaumur's crayfish experiments in Hartsoeker's Systéme: regeneration and the limits of mechanism / Catherine Abou-Nemeh -- Epigenesis as Spinozism in Diderot's biological project / Charles T. Wolfe -- On the continuity of nature and the uniqueness of human life in G.W. Leibniz / Lea F. Schweitz -- Order of insects: insect species and metamorphosis between Renaissance and Enlightenment / Brian W. Ogilvie.