Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016-2017

Organized by Delphine Bellis ([log in to unmask]) and Charles Wolfe ([log in to unmask])

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All meetings are, unless otherwise announced, in the seminar room of the Library at Rozier 44, a block away from Blandijnberg (http://goo.gl/maps/01uKL), Thursdays 14.00-16.00

27/10/2016: Jetze Touber (Utrecht/Ghent): “Stones in the Human Body: a Multi-Perspectival Approach to Early Modern Lithogenesis”

17/11/2016: Delphine Bellis (Ghent): “The ontological status of mathematical objects in Gassendi's philosophy"

08/12/2016: Anne-Lise Rey (Lille) : "Between Leibniz and Wolff : Emilie Du Châtelet´s conception of matter"

19/01/2017 : Lucian Petrescu (ULB) : "Theories of mixtures in antiquity"

02/02/2017 : Vincenzo De Risi (Leipzig): “Mathematics and Metaphysics in the Renaissance: Francesco Patrizi’s Philosophy of Space and Geometry” (NB this talk starts at 3:30 pm)

15/03/2017 (two talks, exceptionally on a Wednesday):

Angela Axworthy (Berlin): "The ontological status of mathematical objects in the Commentary on the Elements of Euclid of Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517-1582)"

Victor Boantza (Minnesota): "Thinking about air in the 18th century"

20/04/2017: Sebastiano Gino (Turin) : "The Emergence of the Nervous System in 18th-century Scotland. Porterfield, Whytt and Cullen"

08/06/2017: Susana Gomez (Madrid): "From artigianal to philosophical anamorphosis. The case of the anamorphic elephant of Simon Vouet"