CfP: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science
The 8th edition of the Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science: The Emergence of Mathematical Physics in the Context of Experimental Philosophy.
IRH-ICUB & Department of Theoretical Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
October 30th – November 1st, 2019
As
we all know, early modern science came to the world dressed up in
mathematical vestments. Much has been said about the shape and colours
of these clothes. Traditional grand narratives of the “mathematization
of nature” or “mechanization of the world picture” have gradually
dissolved into more fine-grained and localized historiographical
categories such as “forms of mathematization”, “artisanal knowledge” or
“experimental practices”. However, in all these framings, questions
about how natural philosophy became amenable to mathematical treatment
are still central to understanding the emergence of modern science.
The
eighth edition of the Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science aims
to explore the diversity in methods, scopes, shapes and colours of some
of the—well-known, and less well-known—projects of mathematization. It
will focus, more precisely, on mathematical forms which have an
experimental component. We aim to bring together scholars coming from
different disciplines, thus cutting across the established divisions and
traditional temporal delimitations.
We
invite submissions for presentations of cca. 40 minutes on any topic
related to early modern projects of mathematization (roughly speaking,
16th – 18th centuries).
Please send an abstract of max. 500 words by June 10 to ovidiu.babes@icub.
The
8th edition of the Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science will be
organized, jointly, by the IRH-ICUB and the Department of Theoretical
Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, and will mark the end of the research
grant “The emergence of mathematical physics in the context of experimental philosophy” (2017-2019).
Invited Speakers:
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford);
Sébastien Maronne (University of Toulouse);
Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University Nijmegen);
Friedrich Steinle (Technical University Berlin)