Kant and Newton

Workshop Kant and Newton

ULB – Room NA.4.302

Friday, 21 November 2025

08:30 Welcome with Coffee

09:00 – 10:00 Courtney Fugate (University of Florida): Kant’s Awakening Under the Morning Light of Newton

10:00 – 11:00 David Del Bianco (Università degli Studi di Milano): Conceptual Analysis and the Possibility of Philosophical Synthesis: Kant’s Adoption of Newton’s Method in the Inquiry (1764)

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:15 Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles): From the Earth to the Moon: Kant’s Dialogue with Newton in His Writings on Natural Science

12:15 – 13:15 Boris Demarest (Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München) and Hein van den Berg (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Kant's Dynamical Matter Theory and the Newtonian Tradition

13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 15:30 Ori Belkind (Tel Aviv University): Newton's Metaphysics of Space and the Role of Space in Kant's Transcendental Idealism

15:30 – 16:30 Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Romanian Academy): Kant on Newton’s ‘Hand of God’

16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:45 Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles): Kant’s Secularization of Newton’s Laws of Motion

17:45 – 18:00 Roundtable Discussion

Supported by RENEW18 (EOS 0.0034.22F), Groupe de contact ‘Philosophie moderne’ (FNRS), Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales

Contacts: Henny.Blomme@ulb.be / Arnaud.Pelletier@ulb.be