Workshop: From natural history to science The emergence of experimental philosophy

CELFIS, Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din Bucuresti

From natural history to science
The emergence of experimental philosophy

Workshop organized as part of the CNCS grant PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0719.

18 iunie 2012
Facultatea de Filosofie
Splaiul Independentei 204
Amfiteatrul Mircea Florian

Program:

14.00-15.00 Sebastian Mateiescu. Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) on experience and observation

15.00 – 16.00 Mihnea Dobre. Knowledge and Certainty in the foundation of Cartesian natural philosophy.

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.30 Dana Jalobeanu. Experiments, discovery and the rules of experientia literata: from the art of experience to the logic of discovery.

17.30-18.30 Laura Georgescu & Dana Jalobeanu. The modes of experientia literata and the making of Sylva Sylvarum

18.30-19.30 Doina-Cristina Rusu. Giambattista Della Porta’s Natural Magic – a source for Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum. The natural history of plants.

Everyone invited to attend. The papers to be presented in this small workshop are pre-circulating in advance among the participants. For a copy of any of the papers write an email to dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro