Brussels Seminar in Modern Philosophy XV: Kant and Newton
The workshop will take place in Brussels at the ULB (room NA4.302) on November 21st. See the provisional programme below.
Programme:
08:30 Welcome with Coffee
09:00 – 10:00 Courtney Fugate (University of Florida): Title Kant's Awakening Under the Morning Light of Newton
10:00 – 11:00 David Del Bianco (Università degli Studi di Milano): “Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Synthesis: Kant’s Adoption of Newton’s Method in the Inquiry (1764)”
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles): “From the Earth to the Moon: Kant’s Dialogue with Newton in His Writings on Natural Science”
12:15 – 13:15 Boris Demarest (Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München) and Hein van den Berg (Universiteit van Amsterdam): “Kant's dynamical matter theory and the Newtonian tradition”
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30 Ori Belkind (Tel Aviv University): “Newton's Metaphysics of Space and the role of Space in Kant's Transcendental Idealism”
15:30 – 16:30 Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (University of Bucharest): “Kant on Newton's 'Hand of God'”
16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:45 Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles): “Kant’s Secularization of Newton’s Laws of Motion”
17:45 – 18:00 Roundtable Discussion
