This international workshop on Historical Epistemology is dedicated to exploring new ways of approaching the historical, conceptual, methodological, and technical relations between the arts and the sciences. Rather than looking for logical criteria for demarcating these domains, the workshop aims to question the arts/sciences dyad from the vantage point of its history.

Presentation

The 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology is dedicated to exploring new ways of approaching the historical, conceptual, methodological, and technical relations between the arts and the sciences. Rather than looking for logical criteria for demarcating these domains, the workshop aims to question the arts/sciences dyad from the vantage point of its history.

Practical informations

Registration is mandatory Register here

Zoom link: unive.zoom.us/j/6569494316

Further information:

• https://episthist.hypotheses.org/
• epistemologiehistorique@gmail.com

Programm

Thursday June 9, 2022

9:30 Welcome & Introduction Marco Sgarbi, Ca’ Foscari

Chair Roberta Dreon, Ca’ Foscari

• 10:00 Cécilia Bognon, Université de Paris (Labex Who am I?/IHPST),From the Spectacle de la nature (Abbé Pluche,1732) to Naturphilosophie. Creativity, order and vital disorder
• 11:00 Caroline A. Jones, MIT, Polemics and epistemes: symbiontics in contemporary bio-arts

Chair Eleonora Montuschi, Ca’ Foscari

• 14:00 Francesco Nappo, Politecnico di Milano, How Maxwell discovered the Maxwell equations
• 14:40 Stefano Furlan, MPIWG Berlin/Université de Genève, The smile of mnemosyne: John Wheeler between history of science and arts
• 15:20 Ladislav Kvasz, Institute of philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, On epistemological reconstruction of the development of the concept of space in geometry and in painting
• 16:20 Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ca’ Foscari, Cultural politics of historical epistemology
• 17:20 Peter Galison, Harvard University, Wastewilderness: nuclear lands

Friday June 10, 2022

Chair Matteo Vagelli, Ca’ Foscari/Harvard University

• 9:30 Gwenda-lin Grewal, New School for Social Research, Fashion and academic divisiveness
• 10:10 Maria Teresa Costa, MPIWG Berlin, A transcultural history of art history from the 19th century and beyond. Art and science in a dialogue
• 11:20 Lucie Fabry, AMU/CGGG, Is there a science of interpretation? Sociology of art and epistemology of social sciences in the work of Jean-Claude Passeron

Chair Caroline Angleraux, Labex Who am I?/IHPST

• 14:00 Matteo Vagelli, Ca’ Foscari/Harvard University, Varieties of pluralism. Granger’s, Feyerabend’s, and Hacking’s theories of scientific styles compared
• 14:40 Daniel Rodriguez-Navas, New School for Social Research, Art and science, method and style: the function of the concept of style in French historical epistemology
• 15:20 Rémi Mermet, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Between art and science: Ernst Cassirer’s concept of style
• 16:20 Agnese Ghezzi, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, The entangled histories of anthropology and photography, between art and science
• 17:00 Elena Canadelli, Università degli Studi di Padova, Art, science, and nature: museums as entangled spaces

Organization

This workshop is organized by:

• Épistémologie Historique. Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology

With the support of

• Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage;
• European Commission (This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101030646, “EPISTYLE”);
• IHPST (UMR 8590, Paris 1/CNRS);Centre Gilles Gaston Granger (UMR 7304); Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Thought (CREMT).

Organizing committee

Matteo Vagelli (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia/Harvard University); Caroline Angleraux (Labex Who Am I?/IHPST); Lucie Fabry (Aix Marseille Université, Centre Gilles-Gaston Granger); Iván Moya-Diez (Universidad Alberto Hurtado); Thomas Embleton (IHPST).