2nd call (apologies for cross-posting)
Masterclass "Space, Time, and Motion in the Early Modern Period"
18-22 May 2015.
Speakers:
Edward Slowik (Winona State University)
Tzuchien Tho (ICUB, University of Bucharest)
Reading list (selected fragments):
Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, Part II.
Leibniz, Animadversiones ad Cartesii principia philosophiæ §35-64.
Huygens, De Motu Corporum ex percussione.
Leibniz, Specimen Dynamicum (Pars I.).
Newton, De gravitatione (excerpts), the scholium on space and time from the Principia (1st edition), and the general scholium from the Principia (2nd edition). Newton, Philosophical Writings (Janiak, editor), pp. 15-35, 64-70, 86-93.
Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence.
For more details, please visit https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/masterclass-space-time-and-motion-in-the-early-modern-period/
Requests to register for the masterclass should be sent to [log in to unmask], no later than 1st May.
Workshop "Natural History, Mathematics, and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century"
26-27 May 2015
Peter Anstey (Sydney University), Locke and Leibniz on cohesion.
Iordan Avramov (ICUB, University of Bucharest), The early Royal Society of London and their 'Inquiries for Natural History'.
Sorin Costreie (Faculty of Philosophy/ ICUB, University of Bucharest), Leibniz on void and matter.
Mădălina Giurgea (Ghent University), Mersenne on the production of sound.
Tinca Prunea (New Europe College, Bucharest), The necessary alliance of metaphysics and mathematics: Kant and Maupertuis on natural philosophy.
Ed Slowik (Winona State University), Situating Kant’s Pre-Critical Monadology: From Leibnizian Ubeity and Geometric Holism to the Subjectivist Turn.
Tzuchien Tho (ICUB, University of Bucharest), Symmetry, Invariance and Force in Leibniz's Dynamics.
For more details, please visit https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/workshop-natural-history-mathematics-and-metaphysics-in-the-seventeenth-century/
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