Platonic Histories of Science: Reading the Past in the Pursuit of the Future of Physics

Hosted by the University of Bristol Department of Philosophy and funded by The Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (U Bristol)
Organised by Noah Stemeroff and Tzuchien Tho
9am
(6pm Melbourne)
Kristian Camilleri
The Physicists as Philosopher: Cultures of Philosophizing in the Age of Quantum Physics
10am
Stefano Furlan
Echoes of a Living Cosmos: The Injection of Leibniz, Schelling, and Peirce into Participatory Physics
11am
Marije Martijn
Space is a body: On Proclus’ innovative Neoplatonic notion of place or space
12pm
Noah Stemeroff
The One and Many Paulis
13pm
LUNCH
14pm
Iacopo Chiaravalli
Bare Figures: Abstraction, Imagination and Mathematics in Descartes’s Rules for the Direction of the Mind
15pm
(9am Minneapolis)
Ed Slowik
The Influence of Platonism and Neoplatonism on the Development of Spatial Ontologies in Early Modern England

Contact information

TzuChien Tho: tz.tho@bristol.ac.uk