STEP - Science and Technology in the European Periphery

4th Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science
Experiments and the Arts of Discovery in the Early Modern Europe

12-14 May 2013
Center for the Logic, History and the Philosophy of Science
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

Program:

Sunday, May 12, 2013
Chair: Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest)
10:00-11:00 Peter Anstey (Sydney), Experimental natural history (keynote lecture)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12.30 Sergius Kodera (Vienna), The Laboratory as Stage: Giovanni Battista della Porta’s Experiments
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
Chair: Cesare Pastorino (Sussex)
13.30-14.30 Arianna Borrelli (Wuppertal), The invisible technique: the emergence of transparent glass and the development of Giovan Battista Della Porta's optical experiments
14.30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Evan Ragland (Alabama), Making Trials in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Medicine
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Jonathan Regier (Paris), Mathematics and experiment in Kepler's De stella nova (1604)
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-19:00 Round-up discussion: Experiments in Early Modern Philosophy.

Monday, May 13, 2013
Chair: Roger Ariew (South Florida)
10:00-11:00 Daniel Garber (Princeton), Merchants of Light and Mystery Men: Bacon’s Last Projects in Natural History
11:00-11.30 Cofee break
11:30-12.30 Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest), Experimenting with the Operations of the Mind: Medicine and the ‘Intellectual Arts’
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
Chair: Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)
13:30-14.30 Kathryn Murphy (Oxford), Strategies of Experimental Reading in Francis Bacon and Dean Christopher Wren
14.30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Vlad Alexandrescu (Bucharest), Descartes et le rêve (baconien) de "la plus haute et plus parfaite science"
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-19:00 Round-up discussion: Baconian experimentation (Proponents: Dana Jalobeanu, Cesare Pastorino, Mihnea Dobre, Oana Matei, Sebastian Mateiescu, Claudia Dumitru)

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
10:00-11:00 Mordechai Feingold (Caltech), What was the "Experimental Philosophy'? (keynote lecture)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Albrecht Heeffer (Ghent), The use of material models in physico-mathematics
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
Chair: Peter Anstey (Sydney)
13:30-14:30 Koen Vermeir (Paris), John Wilkins' mathematical experiments and the perpetuity of discovery
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Benedino Gemelli (Bellinzona), Francis Bacon in Isaac Beeckman’s Journal
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Alberto Vanzo (Warwick), Experimental philosophy in late seventeenth-century Italy
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-19:00 Round-up discussion (Cesare Pastorino)