Friday, 1st of April 2016
Location: Seminar Room, Institute of Research in the Humanities
Invited speakers: Peter Anstey (University of Sydney & University of Bucharest), Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest), Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Silvia Manzo (University of La Plata).
Programme
9:30-10:00 – Coffee and Welcoming address
10:00-11:00 – Silvia Manzo, Natural philosophy, jurisprudence and laws of nature in Francis Bacon
11:00-12:00 – Dana Jalobeanu, Reconstructing Francis Bacon’s natural history: Sylva Sylvarum in the seventeenth century
12:00 -12:30 – Coffee break
12:30-13:30 – Mihnea Dobre, Bacon, Descartes and “the new science”
13:30-15:00 – Lunch break
15:00-16:00 – Peter Anstey, Hume’s experimental moral philosophy
16:00-17:00 – Sorana Corneanu, Genius and Experiment: Echoes of the Sylva in the Later Eighteenth Century
17:00-17:30 – Concluding remarks
18:30 – Dinner
