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Galileo Colloquium 2008 Program

Saturday, 19 April 2008
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , PA USA

Registration is requested but not required: peg1@pitt.edu.

     Morning

  8:30 -  9:00
 

  9:00 -  9:15

  9:15 - 10:00

     
 10:00- 10:45


 10:45- 11:00
 
 11:00-11:45



     
 11:45-12:30    
 

Continental Breakfast
817 Cathedral of Learning, Center for Philosophy of Science
 
Welcome, Paolo Palmieri and Peter Machamer

Maurice Finocchiaro
Defending Copernicus and Galileo: The Ship's Mast Experiment
 
Peter Dear
Mechanics, Motion, and Matter: The First New Science

Coffee Break
 
Jochen Büttner
Galileo's overlooked pendulum plane experiment and its conceptual background in the theory of accelerated motion before 1604
 
Thomas Settle
Experimenting with Experiments

      Afternoon

 12:30 -  2:30

   2:30 - 4:30

Break for lunch

HPSLab visit
206 SRCC, O'Hara Street


Local Program Committee

Peter Machamer, History and Philosophy of Science
Paolo Palmieri , History and Philosophy of Science

Sponsor

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
 
Revised 11/11/08 - Copyright 2006