Bucharest-Princeton Seminar 2012
Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Bran, 29 June – 4 July 2012
THE BATTLE FOR SCIENTIA
IN
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Programme
29 June
9.30
Departure to Bran from Hotel Flowers, Plantelor str. 2, Bucharest (lunch on the way in Brașov)
17.00
Arrival in Bran (Vila Andra)
19.00 Dinner
30 June
9.30-10.30
Conference: Alexander Douglas (London): Spinoza, the Enlightenment,
and the Idea of Social Science
10.30-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-13.00 Reading group (I): Bacon,
Hooke, Sprat and the 'inductive' method
Convenors:
Laura Georgescu, Dana Jalobeanu, Doina Rusu
Texts:
13.00-15.00
Lunch break
16.00-16.35 Daniel
Andersson (Oxford): Imaginatio
and Scientia
16.35-16.50
Coffee Break
16.50-17.25 Fabrizio Baldassarri (Parma): History and science: the battle for scientia. Descartes and Bacon
17.25-18.00 Robert Arnautu (CEU and New
Europe College):
Scientia
and banauson technai : The joint
foundation for modern experimental science and technology
19.00 Dinner
1 July
9.30-10.30 Presentation
& discussion of a book: Igor Agostini (Universita degli studi del
Salento):
L’idea di Dio in
Descartes, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2011.
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-13.00 Reading group (II): Descartes' Regulae. Convenors: Igor
Agostini, Vlad Alexandrescu, Lucian Petrescu
Texts: Regulae
ad directionem ingenii, texte
critique [latin] établi par Giovanni Crapulli, La Haye, Martinus Nijhof, 1951;
english translation of Descartes’ letters by Dugald Murdoch in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol.
I, translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch, CUP, 1985, p. 7-77;
French translation by J.L. Marion, in Descartes, Règles utiles et claires pour la direction de l’esprit et la recherche
de la vérité, La Haye, Martinus Nijhoff, 1977.
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
16.00-16.35: Steven
Burgess (South Florida), The Ontological Background of the Method of Demonstration in
Descartes’ Meditations
16.35-16.50 Coffee break
16.50-17.25 Calin Cristian Pop (New Europe College): Ontologie inachevée de l’infini chez Descartes comme
propédeutique de la scientia
17.25-18.00 Roger
Ariew (South Florida), Condemnations of Cartesianism
and the resulting empiricism
19.00 Dinner
2 July
9.30-10.05 Max Gavrilciuc
(Bucharest): Soul Individuality in
Descartes
10.05-10.40: Madalina Giurgea (Ghent): On speed, force and motion in
Mersenne’s Traité de l’Harmonie Universelle
10.40-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-13.00 Reading group (III): A 'science' of the soul:
Charleton, Convenor: Sorana Corneanu
Text:
Walter Charleton, Natural History of the Passions, London, 1674, Sections I-III, pp.
2-67.
13.00-15.00
Lunch break
16.00-16.35 Robin Buning (Utrecht): Henricus Reneri’s programme for the renovation of
natural philosophy
16.35-16.50 Coffee break
16.50 -17.25 Lucian Petrescu (Ghent): Peter
Pázmány’s exegesis of Meteorologica IV
17.25-18.00 Raphael Krut-Landau (Princeton): The role of metaphysics in Spinoza’s
philosophy
19.00 Dinner
3 July
9.30-10.30: Conference : Andrea Sangiacomo (Macerata
and Lyon ): Changing
Descartes: Boyle, Spinoza and the debate on the relational nature of sensible
qualities
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-13.00 Reading group (IV): Mathematical method: Newton. Convenor: Daniel
Garber
Texts:
13.00-15.00 Lunch
16.00-16.35 Lucio Mare (South
Florida): Infimae species in Heaven and
Earth: on Leibniz’ Reception and Use of a Thomistic Individuation Principle
16.35-16.50 Coffee Break
16.50-17.25 Tammy Nyden, Not Scientia, but Not Nothing: de Volder on the Role of Experiment in
Natural Philosophy
17.25-18.00 Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University):
Infinity and Life: The
Role of Infinity in Leibniz’s View of Living Beings
19.00 Dinner
4 July
9.30
Departure to Bucharest
This
Seminar is supported by a grant of
the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research,
CNCS-UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0998: Models of
Producing and Disseminating Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: the Cartesian
Framework.
