Published on Friday, April 06, 2012
Abstract
Announcement
Friday 3 February, Maison Française d'Oxford
Morning Session
Chair: Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, Oxford)
- 10.30-11.30 Timothy Raylor (Carleton College, Northfield)
Hobbes's Method of Composition and its Implications - 11.30-12.30 Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, London)
Defining the Terms of Motion in Hobbes's Natural philosophy
Afternoon Session I
Chair: Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
- 14.00-15.00 John Henry (University of Edinburgh)
Galileo, Hobbes, and the Physics of Simple Circular Motion - 15.00-16.00 Douglas Jesseph (University of South Florida)
Hobbes on the Foundations of Natural Philosophy
Afternoon Session II
Chair: Luc Borot (MFO)
- 16.30-18.00 Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Hobbes, Descartes, and Laws of Nature - Francesca Giuliano (Università del Salento)
Response to Dan Garber
Saturday 4 February, All Souls College
Morning Session I
Chair: Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
- 9.30-10.30 Franco Giudice (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
The Place of Optics in Hobbes's Natural Philosophy - 10.30-11.30 Elaine Stroud (University of Wisconsin)
Lines of Vision: A Construction Integrating Physics, Geometry, and Psychology
Morning Session II
Chair : Daniel Garber ( Princeton University)
- 11.45-12.45 Philip Beeley (Linacre College, Oxford)
Experimentarian Philosophers. Hobbes's Writings on Pneumatics and their Reception by Boyle and Wallis
Afternoon Session
Chair: Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO)
- 14.00-15.00 Agostino Lupoli (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Hobbes's Concept of Accident - 15.00-16.00 Cees Leijenhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Causality and Representation in Hobbes's De Corpore
Subjects
Places
- 2-10 Norham Road (Maison Française d’Oxford)
Oxford, Britain
Date(s)
- Friday, February 03, 2012
- Saturday, February 04, 2012
Keywords
- Thomas Hobbes, Descartes, Laws of Nature,
Reference Urls
Information source
- Aurélie Flamant
courriel : aflamant [at] msh-paris [dot] fr
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« The Natural Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Its Context and Development », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Friday, April 06, 2012, https://doi.org/10.58079/kom