Research Group for History Philosophy of Science Hungarian Academy of Sciences


The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science (https://www.facebook.com/mtahps),
Research Centre for the Humanities,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

cordially invites you to its conference to be held on the 15th of November 2016:

EARLY MODERN ENCOUNTERS OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY

Keynote Speakers: Dániel Schmal, Charles Wolfe

Program:
10:00 - 10:45 - Dániel Schmal: Perception and Matter: The Concept of Causality in Francis Glisson's Philosophy of Nature

10:45 - 11:30 - Bálint Kékedi: Sheep and Magnets: Purposeful Behaviour in Cartesian Machines

11:30 - 11:45 - Coffee break

11:45 - 12:30 - Olivér István Tóth: Innate Ideas and the Role of Science in Spinoza's Rationalist Epistemology

12:30 - 13:15 - Gábor Á. Zemplén: Diagrammatic Carriers and the Acceptance of Newton's Optical Theory

15:00 - 15:45 - Charles Wolfe: Life as Substance or as Function: Learning from Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

15:45 - 16:30 - Tamás Demeter: Layers of Hume's Vitalism

16:30 - 16:45 - Coffee break

16:45 - 17:30 - Máté Veres: Philosophy's Happy Escape: Scepticism and Naturalism in Hume's Natural History of Religion

17:30 - 18:15 - Natália Borza: Musicality in Natural Philosophy: An Analysis of Adam Smith's Posthumous Essays

Venue of the event: 'Pepita room', 30. Orszaghaz st. 1014 Budapest, Hungary

Contact: demeter.tamas@btk.mta.hu

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