Natural History, Mathematics, and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century

Workshop on “Natural History, Mathematics, and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century” (Bucharest, 26-27.05.2015)

In the workshop “Natural History, Mathematics, and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century” we aim to put together scholars working on various aspects of the seventeenth-century philosophy and science and to open the discussion in what we hope to represent a series of conferences and workshops on the history of science at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Bucharest (IRH-UB).

Invited speakers:

Peter Anstey (Sydney University), Locke and Leibniz on cohesion.
Iordan Avramov (ICUB, University of Bucharest), The early Royal Society of London and their ‘Inquiries for Natural History’.
Sorin Costreie (Faculty of Philosophy/ ICUB, University of Bucharest), Leibniz on void and matter.
M?d?lina Giurgea (Ghent University), Mersenne on the production of sound.
Tinca Prunea (New Europe College, Bucharest), The necessary alliance of metaphysics and mathematics: Kant and Maupertuis on natural philosophy.
Ed Slowik (Winona State University), Situating Kant’s Pre-Critical Monadology: From Leibnizian Ubeity and Geometric Holism to the Subjectivist Turn.
Tzuchien Tho (ICUB, University of Bucharest), Symmetry, Invariance and Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics.

Venue: The Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Bucharest (IRH-UB). For an updated program and more details about the event, please visit our website, https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/. Contact: [email protected].