Kant & Newton

Brussels Seminar in Modern Philosophy XV: Kant and Newton

The workshop will take place in Brussels at the ULB (room NA4.302) on November 21st. See the provisional programme below.

Programme:

08:30 Welcome with Coffee

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

10:00 – 11:00 David Del Bianco (Università degli Studi di Milano): “Conceptual Analysis and 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 (University of Bucharest): “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