Colocviul "Mechanicism, mathematics and experiment: early modern intersections"

Joi 16 ianuarie si vineri 17 ianuarie va avea loc, la Facultatea de Filosofie, colocviul „Mechanicism, mathematics and experiment: early modern intersections.”

Colocviul este organizat de Dana Jalobeanu impreuna cu membrii echipei proiectului de cercetare „From natural history to science: the emergence of early modern philosophy,” desfasurat in cadrul CELFIS. Participanti: Sophie Roux (ENS, Paris), Catherine Goldstein (CNRS, Institut de mathematiques de Jussieu-PRG, Paris), Charles Wolfe (University of Ghent), Tamas Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Romanian Academy), Vlad Alexandrescu (Universitatea din Bucuresti).

Programul colocviului

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

Tamas Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Science and University of Pécs), cu conferinta: Post-Newtonian Moral Philosophy in Enlightenment Scotland:The Flight from Mathematics in the Human Sciences.

Seminarul CELFIS de miercuri, 15 ianuarie, va avea ca invitat pe

Tamas Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Science and University of Pécs),

Cu conferinta:

Post-Newtonian Moral Philosophy in Enlightenment Scotland:
The Flight from Mathematics in the Human Sciences

Seminarul CELFIS are loc ca de obicei in amfiteatrul Titu Maiorescu, la Facultatea de Filosofie (Splaiul Independei 204). Aveti mai jos si un abstract al prelegerii

ABSTRACT:
In this talk I will first consider the relation of moral and natural philosophy for Newton, arguing that this relation is mainly methodological and theological. Secondly, I argue that different aspects of Newton’s programme were put to use in the course of development of Scottish moral philosophy, and this makes the label ‘Newtonian’ as ambiguous in the context of moral philosophy as it is in natural philosophy. Thirdly, I argue that this development runs parallel with that of Scottish physiology of the age, i.e. I try to show that the transformation in the ideals of inquiry reflect similar tendencies in Scottish moral and natural philosophy. Finally, I will take a sociological detour in order to suggest a possible explanation for this strikingly parallel development.

Conferintele C.C.I.F

Centrul de Cercetare a Istoriei Ideilor Filosofice inaugurează ciclul conferinţelor C.C.I.I.F. Programul prelegerilor:

21 februarie 2014: Remus BREAZU, Transcendentalism în fenomenologia husserliană;

28 Februarie 2014: Ion DRĂGOI, Timp şi istoricitate la Lucian Blaga;

28 Martie 2014: Andrei SIMIONESCU, Imaginar pasiv în fenomenologia lui Husserl;

25 Aprilie 2014: Oana ŞERBAN, Capitalismul artistic: complicităţi şi crize. Estetizarea lumii, pe urmele lui Gilles Lipovetsky

30 Mai 2014: Viorel CERNICA, Judecată şi timp. Fenomenologia judicativului – prezentarea cărţii.

 

Conferintele vor avea loc in ultima vineri a fiecarei luni, de la orele 18:00 in amfiteatrul Mircea Florian

seminar CELFIS: prof. Gheorghe Stratan (Universitatea din Bucuresti) – Galileo-450 Motive pentru a aniversa ziua de nastere a lui Galileo Glailei (15 februarie 1564)

Miercuri 8 ianuarie, seminarul CELFIS il va avea ca invitat pe

prof. Gheorghe Stratan (Universitatea din Bucuresti) –  Galileo-450 Motive pentru a aniversa ziua de nastere a lui Galileo Glailei (15 februarie 1564)

Seminarul are loc ca de obicei de la ora 18, in amfiteatrul Titu
Maiorescu, la Facultatea de Filosofie (Splaiul Independentei 204).

Public Reason – Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2013

We are pleased to announce that Public Reason 5 (1) is now available online at

http://publicreason.ro/cuprins/9

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

TOC – Public Reason 5 (1):

Articles

1. Mikael Dubois

Social Insurance and the Argument from Autonomy

2. Jonathan Grose & Cedric Paternotte

Social Norms: Repeated Interactions, Punishment, and Context Dependence

3. Thomas M. Besch

On Political Legitimacy, Reasonableness, and Perfectionism

4. Shaun P. Young & Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos

Multiculturalism as a Deliberative Ethic

5. Viorel Vizureanu

Some Remarks Concerning the Concept of Glocalization

6. Uwe Steinhoff

Helen Frowe’s “Practical Account of Self-Defence”: A Critique

7. Neelke Doorn

Water and Justice: Towards an Ethics of Water Governance

8. Marcel Wissenburg

Substantive Representation in a Post-Democratic Environment

Book Reviews

1. James W. Boettcher

Paul Weithman, Why Political Liberalism? On John Rawls’s Political Turn

2. C. Upendra

Mathew H. Kramer, Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine

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