Mechanicism, mathematics and experiment: Early modern intersections
16-17 January 2014
Faculty of Philosophy
Splaiul Independentei 204, Bucharest
Programme
Thusday 16 January
16.30-17.40 Catherine Goldstein (CNRS, Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu-PRG, Paris),
Baconian mathematics in Mersenne’s circle
17.40-18.50 Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest),
Francis Bacon’s experimental construction of “space”
Friday 17 January
10.00-11.10 Sophie Roux (ENS Paris),
What kind of mechanism for Cartesian physics?
11.10-11.30 break
11.30-12.40 Charles Wolfe (Ghent University),
Mechanism and mechanisms: ontological considerations in an early modern context, with a look at embodiment
12.40-15.00 lunch
15.00-16.10 Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest),
R. Descartes and J.B. Morin about the uses of the infinite (in French)
16.10-16.30 break
16.30-17.40 Tamas Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Science and University of Pécs),
Hume on the Limits and Prospects of Natural Philosophy
17.40-18.50 Tinca Prunea Bretonnet (Romanian Academy),
Kant on Mathematical Method and the Specificity of Philosophy in the Early 1760s
Event organized within the framework of the project From natural history to science: the emergence of experimental philosophy.