New York City Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Haifa
Israel
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NEW YORK CITY WORKSHOP IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Spinoza and the Sciences
July 26, 2021
15:00 – 16:45
Noa Shein (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): “Spinoza on Extension’s Activity”
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University): “Spinoza on the Epistemic Status of Euclidean Proofs”
17:00 – 18:45
Alison Peterman (University of Rochester): “Levels of Explanation in Spinoza”
Mogens Laerke (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): "Spinoza and the Freedom of Scientific Inquiry"
19:00 – 19:50
Meir Buzaglo (Hebrew University): “Towards a Pantheistic Set Theory”
Science and Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
July 27, 2021
15:00 – 16:45
Justin E. Smith (Université de Paris): “Leibniz and Lovelace on Mechanical Reasoning”
Michael Friedman (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “Joachim Jungius and Weaving in the 17th Century: between Mathematical and Scientific Investigation”
17:00 – 18:45
Ryan Miller (Université de Genève): “Descartes, Model-Based Scientist”
Jen Nguyen (Harvard University): “Leibniz’s Relationalism about Quantity”
19:00 – 19:50
Richard Arthur (McMaster University): “ ‘Infinite in its own kind’: Leibniz on the Divine Attributes”
July 28, 2021
15:00 – 16:45
Patrick Connolly (Lehigh University) “Newtonian Bodies: Dependence and Independence”
Zvi Biener (University of Cincinnati) “Fitter, Stronger, More General: The Multiple Aspirations of Newtonian Induction”
17:00 – 18:45
James Messina (University of Wisconsin – Madison): “Look Ma, No Hands!: The Evolution of Kant’s Metaphysics of Space Before Incongruent Counterparts”
Scott Harmeka (Ohio State University): “A Wider View of Things” - Berkeley on True Motion
19:00 – 20:45
Qiu Lin (Duke University): “Du Châtelet on Mechanical Explanation vs. Physical Explanation”
Katherine Brading (Duke University): “Emilie Du Châtelet and the Search for a Physics of Bodies”
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July 25, 2021, 9:00am IST
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