Call for Papers for a Session on The Secrets of Motion or the Natural Multidisciplinarity of Knowledge in the Italian Renaissance at the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
Call for Papers for a Session on The Secrets of Motion or the Natural Multidisciplinarity of Knowledge in the Italian Renaissance at the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science, and Philosophy
The conference will take place July 2 – 6, 2012 at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
If you would like to participate in the conference by presenting a paper in one or more of the workshops please note the following:
Length of Paper:
Papers should not exceed 3000 words or 10 double spaced pages, including Notes. Notes need not be included in the presentation of the papers but they should be in the version intended for the proceedings.
Deadline
The deadline for submitting your abstract to a Workshop Chair is April 15, 2012.
To whom shall I submit my paper?
On the conference website, http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/ you will find a list of approximately 80 workshops with Chairs from over 30 countries.
Papers should be submitted directly to the workshop Chair.
Chairs: Brunella Antomarini, John Cabot University, Rome.
Email: bantomarini@gmail.com
Tiziana Provvidera, Email: tprovvidera@yahoo.it
Our research focuses on a specific historical time in Western civilization in which science and art were not yet mutually distinguished and every discovery was strictly connected to an invention, and every invention used a new discovery as its own support. One personality who represents this cultural situation was Giovanbattista della Porta, who worked on physiognomy, natural philosophy (or magia naturalis), water games, fountains and automata, with one and the same spirit. In reversal Galileo Galilei introduced a seminal distinction: by trying to make science useful, he started getting rid of the playful construction of inventions.
Over time, the study of ‘qualities’ in nature came to be replaced by the study of measurements of phenomena, ontological certainties by probable truth, valid so far as it shows to function.
By analyzing both personalities, we tackle the issues of
1. How the notion of ‘science’ emerged from the notion of ‘philosophy’;
2. What caused the change in the definition of knowledge;
3. What was the price to pay to the new conception of knowledge:
4. Which modifications the notion of ‘causal thinking’ underwent;
5. How the playful dimension of knowledge seemed to be overcome but came surreptitiously back all over again.
We will use the case of ‘motion’, as explained in both the automata and experiments, as they mark convergences and differences of concerns in the epistemological passage.
Our conclusion will revolve around the lesson to learn today from those times and cultural achievements. Particularly our argument will concern the relationship between practical aims and self-referential (playful or
serendipitous) discoveries in present-day technology.
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