From Natural Philosophy to Science

Activities in 2004

The Steering Committee will meet in Tenerife (Spain) 31 January 2004 and a second time in Berlin (Germany) on 11 December 2004.

Team 1 Mechanics, Machines and Natural philosophy

Workshop on Mechanics and natural philosophy: accommodation and conflict organised by Sophie Roux, Carlos Martin and Jose Montesinos  in Tenerife, Spain, 29 January - 2 February 2004

Second workshop on Mechanics and cosmology organised  by Elena Montali in Firenze, Italy, 25 -27 November 2004.

Team 2 Mind and Body

Workshop on Theories of perception in Medieval and Early Modern Thought, organised by Henrik Lagerlund, Simo Knuuttila and Pekka Kärkkäinen in Helsinki, Finland, 15-18 April 2004

Team 3 The anatomy of Scientific Knowledge: Logic and Method

Workshop on Interpretations of Aristotle’s posterior analytics organised by Frans de Haas in Leiden (Netherlands) 2-4 June 2004

Team 4 Contexts and contents of natural philosophy

Workshop on Proof and persuasion : natural philosophy and its audience organised by H. Schmidt-Glintzer, Sachiko Kusukawa, Ian Maclean at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 25-27 march 2004