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Oct 29
29-10-2020: POSTPONED: English engineer John Smeaton’s experimental method: Optimisation, hypothesis-testing and practical maxims in the early Industrial Revolution.
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Andrew Morris (VUB)
May 28
28-05-2020: 'A different climate has given to shape to a novel species': Early modern climate theories and the debate on anthropogenic climate change
Online - Please contact <jonathan.regier@ugent.be> to join
Seminar
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Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute)
Mar 19
19-03-2020: Joint Seminar with UGent Group for Early Modern Studies
Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22
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Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Gwendoline de Mûelenaere (UGent)
Feb 20
20-02-2020: On the Oxford Calculators and their Legacy up to Galileo
Room 1.3, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22
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Sabine Rommevaux-Tani (CNRS)
Jan 30
30-01-2020: Is atomism atheism? A trial (Naples 1688-1697) and a controversy (Giovanni Battista De Benedictis vs. Francesco d’Andrea)
Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22
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Leen Spruit (Radboud Universiteit)
Dec 12
12-12-2019: Molding the space of interpretations in quantum mechanics
Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22
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Markus Hauru (UGent)
Oct 3
3-10-2019: Ideology and the Natural Sciences: A Study of Boris Hessen’s 1927 and 1931 Papers on Sir Isaac Newton
Blandijn Building, 3rd floor, Room 130.007 (Camelot)
Seminar
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Sean Winkler (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
May 9
9-05-2019: Capitalism without Desire? Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body c. 1900
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
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Claudia Stein (University of Warwick)
Apr 25
25-04-2019: Knowing and debating in classical India: a Jain perspective
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
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Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Universiteit Gent)
Apr 4
4-04-2019: On the Transformations of Climate Modeling
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
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Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne Université)
Mar 14
14-03-2019: Metaphysics and Method in Du Châtelet’s Institutions
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
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Andrew Janiak (Duke University)
Feb 7
7-02-2019: The Debates on Concept Formation in Medieval Thought
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
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Véronique Decaix (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Jan 17
17-01-2019: Aristotle on Generation, Development, and Perfection
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
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Justin Smith (Université Paris Diderot)
Dec 13
13-12-2018: "Vegeto ergo sum: the changing fortunes of the irritable self in the early modern period"
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
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Guido Giglioni (Università di Macerata)
Nov 29
29-11-2018: "The Monogenesis Controversy: A Historical and Philosophical Investigation" & "Of Orthogenesis: An Account of Bergson’s “Psychological Interpretation” of Evolution"
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
Seminar
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Tano Posteraro (Penn State University)
Nov 8
8-11-2018: Paradigm Shifts and the Life of the Mind. The Legacy of Alexandre Koyre
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
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Rodney Parker (Universität Paderborn)
Jun 7
7-06-2018: A political turn in historical epistemology? Beyond the Structuralist Crisis of the Subject and the Constructivist Crisis of the Object
Room 120.043 / Blandijn / 2nd floor
Paper
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Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Venice)
May 9
9-05-2018: The Origins of Newton's Heterodoxy Reconsidered
Grote vergaderzaal-Room 130.007-Blandijn Building-3rd floor
Seminar
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Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
Apr 26
26-04-2018: Historicity of Perception
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
Paper
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Sigrid Leyssen (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris)
Feb 22
22-02-2018: The Anatomy of a Melancholy Soul. Robert Burton as a 'Spirituall Physitian'
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44
Paper
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Sarah Tropper (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)