Philosophy and Science in the 17th Century: the Problem of Method

Programme: 

Friday, 24th May
4:00pm – 8:45pm
Cultural Centre of the University of Athens Kostis Palamas

4:00pm – 6:15pm  Chair: Theodore Arabatzis (University of Athens)

4:00-4:45 Vana Grigoropoulou (University of Athens)
Spinoza and Bacon on the fabrication of tools: Deduction and Induction

4.45-5.30 Dionysis Anapolitanos (University of Athens)
Leibniz’s Labyrinth of the Continuum

5.30-6.15 Athanassios Raftopoulos, University of Cyprus
Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Newtonian Scientific Method as Cartesian Analysis

6:15pm – 6:45 pm Coffee Break

6:45pm – 7:45pm Chair: Stathis Psillos (University of Athens)

6:45pm – 7:45pm Peter Anstey (University of Sydney)
Experimental Natural History

7:45-8:45pm Dan Garber (Princeton University)
Bacon’s Program for Natural History: the Sylva Sylvarum, the Latin Natural Histories, and the New Atlantis