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SUMMARY:Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine
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LOCATION:Oxford\, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:<p>This one-day workshop will examine the theological debates that influenced the birth and development of the notion of laws of nature from the sixteenth century until the critical Kant. It is widely accepted that the laws of nature were born as a theological justification of the order found in nature by sixteenth and seventeenth centuries natural philosophers and theologians. It is also widely recognised\, however\, that by the mid-eighteenth century the laws of nature were assumed to guide and explain the workings of the natural world without any reference to the divine. The laws of nature\, therefore\, moved from being essentially tied in their beginnings to the nature of God\, to becoming a secular concept by the midst of the so called scientific revolution. The goal of this event will be to uncover the philosophical and theological concepts at stake both at the birth and later development of the laws of nature\, seeking a greater understanding of the transition from being a theological notion to becoming a non-theological notion.<br><br></p>\n<p><strong>Timetable</strong></p>\n<p>09.30-10.10: Ignacio Silva (Oxford\, UK)</p>\n<p><strong>Pre-Cartesian Discussions on the Laws of Nature and the Real Presence</strong></p>\n<p>10.10-10.50: Nazif Muhtaroglu (Bogazici\, Turkey)</p>\n<p><strong>The Islamic Background of Descartes&rsquo\;s Laws of Nature</strong></p>\n<p>10.50-11.00: Coffee Break</p>\n<p>11.00-11.40: Nathan Rockwood (Virginia Tech\, US)</p>\n<p><strong>A Cartesian View of Natural Necessity</strong></p>\n<p>11.40-12.20: Marine Picon (ENS Lyon\, France)</p>\n<p><strong><em>Potentia Absoluta\, Potentia Ordinata</em> and the Laws of Nature in Leibniz</strong></p>\n<p>12.20-13.30: Keynote Sophie Roux (ENS Paris\, France)</p>\n<p><strong>Laws of Nature: Words\, Concepts\, Things</strong></p>\n<p>13.30-14.30: Lunch Break</p>\n<p>14.30-15.10: Sergio H. Orozco-Echeverri (Edinburgh\, UK)</p>\n<p><strong>Laws of Nature\, Secondary Causation and Providence in Newton and Barrow</strong></p>\n<p>15.10-15.50: Jonathan Head (Keele\, UK)</p>\n<p><strong>Kant on God and the Laws of Nature in the 1750s</strong></p>\n<p>15.50-16.30: Andrea Sangiacomo (Groningen\, Netherlands)</p>\n<p><strong><em>Sine Qua Non Causation</em>: The Legacy of Occasionalism in Kant&rsquo\;s New Elucidation</strong></p>\n<p>16.30-16.50: Coffee Break</p>\n<p>16.50-18.00: Keynote Eric Watkins (San Diego\, US)</p>\n<p><strong>Kant on Laws</strong></p>\n<p>18.30-21.00: Dinner&nbsp\;</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Andrea Sangiacomo;CN=Ignacio Silva:
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