February 2008 Conference Schedule
Day One, Friday 15th
Natural Philosophy.
9:00 am.
9:30 am.
10:00 am.
10:50 am.
11.20 am.
12:10 am.
1.00 pm.
2:00 pm.
2.50 pm.
3.40 pm.
4.00 pm.
5.00 pm
Meet for Coffee.
Introduction.
David Day, Dean of Science Faculty.
First paper by Raz Chen and Ofer Gal (Bar Ilan and Sydney)
“The Wig and the Instrument: Radical Instrumentalism from
Galileo to Hooke”
Commentator: Nick Dew
Morning Tea
Second paper by Koen Vermeir (Leuven/Cambridge)
“Magnetic Theology as a Baroque Phenomenon.”
Commentator: Raz Chen
Third paper by Antonio Clericuzio (Cassino)
“Chemistry in the 17th Century: practical art or academic
discipline?”
Commentator: Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney)
Break for Lunch.
Fourth paper by Victor Boantza (Toronto)
“Chemical Philosophy and Boyle’s Incongruous Philosophical
Chemistry”
Commentator: Peter Anstey (Otago)
Fifth paper by Alan Salter (Sydney)
“The midwife, the shepherd, the huntsmen and the butcher:
knowledge and competence in Harvey's practice of inquiry”
Commentator: Antonio Clericuzio (Cassino)
Afternoon Tea.
Sixth paper by Rivka Feldhay (Tel Aviv)
“Galilean Science in Jesuit Classes of the 17th Century
Commentator: John Schuster (New South Wales)
Free evening.
Day Two, Saturday 16th
Mathematization.
9:00 am.
Meet for Coffee.
9:15 am.
First paper by Raz Chen (Bar Ilan)
“The Formation of Nothing, or Kepler's Visual Economy of Science”
10:05 am.
10:55 am.
11:15 am.
12:05 pm.
12:55 pm.
2:30 pm.
6:30 pm.
9:00 pm.
10:30 pm.
Commentator: Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Second paper by Ofer Gal (Sydney)
“From Divine Order To Human Approximation: Mathematics In
Baroque Science ”
Commentator: John Schuster
Morning Tea.
Third paper by Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney)
“The problem of calculus: Leibniz and Newton on blind reasoning”.
Commentator: Mark Colyvan (Sydney)
Fourth paper by Nick Dew (McGill)
“The Hive and the Pendulum: Universal Metrology and Baroque
Science
Commentator: Peter Dear
Break for Blue Mountains trip.
Picnic style lunch in car; drive to Blue Mountains.
Arrive and explore.
Dinner at Café Bon Ton, in Leura.
Travel back to Sydney.
Arrive back in Sydney.
Day Three, Sunday 17th
Representation.
9:00 am.
9:15 am.
10:05 am.
10:55 am.
11:15 am.
12.05pm.
1.35 pm.
2.25 pm.
3:15 pm.
3.25 pm.
4.15 pm.
7.00 pm.
Meet for Coffee
First paper by John Schuster (New South Wales)
“What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the
Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy? An
Historiographical Reflection, Inspired by
Maravall’s Culture of the Baroque–Analysis of a Historical
Structure”
Commentator: John Sutton (Macquarie)
Second paper by Paula Findlen (Stanford)
"Representing Nature: Agostino Scilla and the Painting of
Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Italy"
Commentator: Charles Wolfe
Morning Tea.
Third paper by Dror Wahrman (Indiana University)
“The eighteenth-century end-run around providence and chance:
complexity, causality, and the roots of modern order”
Commentator: Koen Vermeir (Leuven/Cambridge)
Free time for Lunch.
Fourth paper by John Gascoigne (New South Wales)
“Crossing the Pillars of Hercules": the expansion of Europe and the
beginnings of the scientific movement”
Commentator: Dror Wahrman (Indiana University)
Fifth paper by Peter Dear (Cornell)
"The Roots of Modern Reason."
Commentator: John Gascoigne (New South Wales)
Break for 10 min.
Concluding comments by Stephen Gaukroger.
Break.
Dinner at Pasha’s on King Street.