Bucharest - Princeton Seminar 2010 | Programme
Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Bran, 30 June – 6 July 2010
Non-Mechanical Philosophies in the Seventeenth Century
PROGRAMME
9.30 Departure to Bran from Hotel Flowers, Plantelor str. 2, Bucharest (lunch on the way in Braşov)
17.00 Arrival in Bran (Villa Andra)
19.00 Dinner
1 July
9.30-10.30 Conference: Dan Garber (Princeton): On the Frontlines of the Scientific Revolution: Living in Chaos
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-13.00 Reading group (I): Aristotelianism and the mechanical philosophy. Convenor: Peter Anstey (Otago)
Texts: Sennert, Thirteenth books on natural philosophy (Bk1: Ch. 1-4, 8-9, Bk 2: Ch 1-3; Bk 3: Chap: 1-2, Bk. 6 Chap. 1-2); Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, IV, 196ff; Boyle, The excellency of the mechanical hypothesis.
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
16.00-16.35 Doina Rusu (Bucharest): Imagination in Bacon’s Experimental Science
16.35-16.50 Coffee Break
16.50-17.25 Raphaële Fruet (Newnham College, Cambridge): The Bible Against Aristotle: The Hermeneutical Cosmology of Pierre de La Primaudaye and its Reception in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
17.25-18.00
19.00 Dinner
2 July
9.30-10.30 Conference: Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest): Francis Bacon's natural history: a contextual reading
10.30- 10.45 Coffee break
10.45-13.00 Reading group (II): Natural philosophy, natural history and magic: sympathies in Bruno, Bacon and Della Porta. Convenors: Dana Jalobeanu, Sorana Corneanu, Koen Vermeir
Texts: Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Century 10; Bruno, On magic; On bonding in general; Della Porta, Natural Magic (preface and bk 1, ch. 1-6 and 9)
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
16.00-16.35: Madalina Giurgea (Bucharest): Descartes and Charleton on mind body interaction
16.35-16.50 Coffee break
16.50-17.25 Alexandra Tavares Torero-Ibad (Liège): The importance of non mechanical philosophies in Charles Sorel’s Traité des Novateurs (1655)
17.25-18.00 Delphine Bellis (Utrecht): Vision at the Crossroads of Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Philosophy in Descartes’ Thought
19.00 Dinner
3 July
9.30-10.30 Conference: Theo Verbeek (Utrecht):
Unity and Diversity of Dutch Cartesianism: Some Considerations
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-13.00 Reading group (III): Dutch Cartesianism. Convenors: Theo Verbeek (Utrecht), Vlad Alexandrescu (Bucharest) (the reading group will be held in English and French)
Texts: lettre de Descartes à Regius de Janvier 1642, de juillet 1645 et réponse de Regius à Descartes du 23 juillet 1645; Descartes, Notae in programma quoddam, du début jusqu'à l'examen de l'article six (AT VIII 347-356).
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
16.00-16.35 Lucian Petrescu (Bucharest), Descartes, Fromondus and Plempius. A game of chess and "crass philosophy"
16.35-16.50 Coffee break
16.50 -17.25 Dr. Koen Vermeir (CNRS, Paris): Are there limits to mechanism? Balthazar Bekker and Dutch Cartesianism
17.25-18.00 Mihnea Dobre (Bucharest): Cartesianism and Chemistry
19.00 Dinner
4 July
9.30-10.30 Conference: Vlad Alexandrescu (Bucharest): Regius and Sorbière (in French)
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-13.00 Reading group (IV): The Spirit of Nature and other active powers: More, Cudworth and Leibniz. Convenors: Dan Garber, Martine Pécharman, Koen Vermeir
Texts: More, Immortality of the Soul (bk. III, ch 12-13); Cudworth, The true intellectual system; Leibniz, Specimen Dynamicum I
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
16.00-19.00 Free afternoon
19.00 Dinner
5 July
9.30-10.30 Conference: Peter Anstey (Otago): The demise of Baconian natural history
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-13.00 Reading group (V): Leibniz and Newton. Convenors: Sorin Costreie, Ed Slowick, Katherine Dunlop
Texts: Newton, Optics, Query 31; Leibniz: Anti-barbaric philosophy; Newton, Preface to the Principia
13.00-15.00 Lunch
16.00-16.35 Grigore Vida (Bucharest): Newton on Matter Theory
16.35-16.50 Coffee Break
16.50-17.25 Edward Slowik (Winona State): Locke and Berkeley’s Epistemological Rendition of Newtonian Space
17.25-17.00
19.00 Dinner
6 July
9.30 Departure to Bucharest
