Experiments and the Arts of Discovery in Early Modern Europe
12-14 May 2013
Center for the Logic, History and the Philosophy of Science. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Chair: Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest)
09:30-10:30 Peter Anstey (Sydney), Experimental natural history (keynote lecture)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12.00 Sergius Kodera (Vienna), The Laboratory as Stage: Giovanni Battista della Porta’s Experiments
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
Chair: Cesare Pastorino (Sussex)
13:00-14:00 Arianna Borrelli (Wuppertal), The invisible technique: the emergence of transparent glass and the development of Giovan Battista Della Porta’s optical experiments
14:00-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:30 Evan Ragland (Alabama), Making Trials in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Medicine
15:30-16:30 Jonathan Regier (Paris), Mathematics and experiment in Kepler’s De stella nova (1604)
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-19:00 Panel-discussion: Baconian experimentation I (Proponents: Dana Jalobeanu, Cesare Pastorino, Sebastian Mateiescu, Claudia Dumitru, James Everest)
Monday, May 13, 2013
Chair: Roger Ariew (South Florida)
09:30-10:30 Daniel Garber (Princeton) Merchants of Light and Mystery Men: Bacon’s Last Projects in Natural History
10:30-11:00 Cofee break
11:00-12.00 Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest), Inquiry According to the Ancient Parables: Francis Bacon, the Imagination, and the Art of Direction.
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
Chair: Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)
13.00-14.00 Benedino Gemelli (Bellinzona), Francis Bacon in Isaac Beeckman’s Journal
14:00-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:30 Vlad Alexandrescu (Bucharest), Descartes et le rêve (baconien) de “la plus haute et plus parfaite science”
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-18:00 Panel-discussion: Baconian experimentation II (Proponents: Mihnea Dobre, Oana Matei, Andrea Strazzoni, Adela Deanova)
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
09:30-10:30 Mordechai Feingold (Caltech), What was the “Experimental Philosophy’? (keynote lecture)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12.00 Albrecht Heeffer (Ghent), The use of material models in physico-mathematics
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
Chair: Peter Anstey (Sydney)
13.00-14.00 Koen Vermeir (Paris), John Wilkins’ mathematical experiments and the perpetuity of discovery (paper written together with Maarten Van Dyck)
14:00-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:30 Alberto Vanzo (Warwick), Experimental philosophy in late seventeenth-century Italy
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-18:00 Round-up discussion: Experiments in Early Modern Philosophy; historical and historiographical questions
