The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming conference:

Early Modern Encounters of Science and Philosophy

Program:

10:00 - 10:45 - Dániel Schmal: Perception and Matter: The Concept of Causality in Francis Glisson's Philosophy of Nature

10:45 - 11:30 - Bálint Kékedi: Sheep and Magnets: Purposeful Behaviour in Cartesian Machines

11:30 - 11:45 - Coffee break

11:45 - 12:30 - Olivér István Tóth: Innate Ideas and the Role of Science in Spinoza's Rationalist Epistemology

12:30 - 13:15 - Gábor Á. Zemplén: Diagrammatic Carriers and the Acceptance of Newton's Optical Theory

15:00 - 15:45 - Charles Wolfe: Life as Substance or as Function: Learning from Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

15:45 - 16:30 - Tamás Demeter: Layers of Hume's Vitalism

16:30 - 16:45 - Coffee break

16:45 - 17:30 - Máté Veres: Philosophy's Happy Escape: Scepticism and Naturalism in Hume's Natural History of Religion

17:30 - 18:15 - Natália Borza: Musicality in Natural Philosophy: An Analysis of Adam Smith's Posthumous Essays

Venue of the conference: 1014 Budapest, 30. Országház st., 'Pepita' room

Date of the conference: 15th November, 2016.