Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences, newton and empiricism

Saturday and Sunday, 10-11 April 2010
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , PA USA

Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required. To register, please contact pittcntr@pitt.edu.

   8:30

   9:00

  10:15

  10:30

  11:45

Continental Breakfast

Katherine Dunlop, Brown University
Apriorism and Empirical Science in Barrow and Newton’s Metaphysics (of Space and Time)

Coffee

Mary Domski, University of New Mexico
Newton’s Empiricism in Cartesian Context: Revisiting the Argument for Space in De Gravitatione

Lunch

Saturday Afternoon

1:15

2:30

2:45

4:00

4:15

Matthew Priselac, University of North Carolina
Newton on Substance

Coffee

Ori Belkind, University of Richmond
The Divisibility Criterion in Locke and Newton

Coffee

Invited Speaker: Lisa Downing, Ohio State University
Locke's Metaphysics and Newtonian Metaphysics

Sunday Morning

   8:30

   9:00

  10:15

  10:30

  11:45

Continental Breakfast

Tammy Nyden, Grinnell College
Living force at Leiden

Coffee

Yoram Hazony, Shalem Center
Newton and Hume: A Reappraisal

Lunch

Sunday Afternoon

1:15

2:30

2:45

4:00

4:15

Geoff Gorham, Macalester College
Locke and Newton on Time and Space

Coffee

Erik Curiel, London School of Economics
On Newton’s Third Rule of Reasoning in Philosophy

Coffee

Chris Smeenk, University of Western Ontario
Quantitative Empiricism

Discussants

Philip Catton
Robert DiSalle
Ed Slowik
David Miller
Gordon Steenbergen

Program Committee

Zvi Biener, Western Michigan University
J.E. McGuire, University of Pittsburgh
Eric Schliesser, Ghent University

Sponsors

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Michigan