Bucharest Graduate Conference
May 21-22, Faculty of Philosophy,
University of Bucharest, Romania
Program of Events
Friday, May 21
9:30am – 10:00am: Welcome reception
10:00am – 11:00am: Invited Speaker: Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest) – Experimental philosophy and medicine of the mind: the moral value of studying nature
11:00am – 11:45am: Seth Jones (University of Iowa) – Weak (Naturalistic) Objectivism in Hume’s Moral Theory
11:45am- 12:30pm: Johan Olsthoorn (University of Leuven) – Justice, Equity and Equality: Thomas Hobbes’s Concept of Distributive Justice
Chairman: James Abordo Ong
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm – 2:15pm: Nienke Roelants (University of Ghent) – Visual Perception and Rationality in Early Copernicanism
2:15pm – 3:00pm: Adriana Monica Solomon (University of Bucharest) – Scientific Methods and Conceptual Changes. The Case of Induction: A Historical Approach
3:00pm – 3:45pm: Grigore Vida (University of Bucharest) – Newton on the Ether
Chairman: Kristopher Phillips
3:45pm – 4:00pm: Coffe Break
4:00pm – 5:00pm: Invited Speaker: Eric Schlisser (University of Ghent) – How Epicurean Is (the first edition) of Newton’s Principia?
5:00pm – 5:45pm: Robert Arnautu (CEU Budapest) – The Rise of Mechanical Philosophy
5:45pm – 6:30pm: Madalina Giurgea (University of Bucharest) – An Interpretation of Descartes’ Time Problem
Chairman: Doina-Cristina Rusu
8:30pm: Dinner (optional)
Saturday, May 22
10:00am – 10:45am: Eugen Stafie and Mircea Stoica (University of Bucharest) – The Alchemical Journey: A comparative analysis of two alchemical hermetic texts
10:45am – 11:30am: Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest) – Imagination and Medicine in Francis Bacon
11:30am – 12:15pm: Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest) – Induction as a “motion” of the intellect
Chairman: Michael-John Turp
12:15pm – 1:15pm: Lunch
1:15pm – 2:00pm: James Abordo Ong (Duke University) – A Puzzle in Spinoza’s Assessment of Contempt
2:00pm – 2:45pm: Kristopher Phillips (University of Iowa) – The True Dichotomy Between Objective and Subjective Interpretations of Spinoza’s Theory of Attributes
Chairman: Johan Olsthoorn
2:45pm – 3:00pm: Coffe Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm: Invited Speaker: Koen Vermeir (CNRS, Paris) – Henry More (and Newton) on space, atoms and spirit
4:00pm – 4:45pm: Jerilyn Tinio (University of Wisconsin) – On the Relation between Kant and Berkeley: Berkeley’s Two Senses of Externality
4:45pm – 5:30pm: Michael-John Turp (Durham University) – Hume on ‘is’ and ‘ought’
Chairman: Seth Jones
8:30pm: Dinner (optional)
