Bucharest – Princeton Seminar 2010

BUCHAREST-PRINCETON SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

30 June-6 July 2010

Non-Mechanical Philosophies
in the Seventeenth Century

Staff :

Nr.	Name	University
1.	Daniel Garber	Princeton	TBA
2.	Theo Verbeek	Utrecht	TBA
3.	Peter Anstey	Otago/New Zealand	The demise of Baconian natural history
4.	Martine Pécharman	CNRS, Paris	No
5.	Koen Vermeir	CNRS, Paris	Are there limits to mechanism? Balthasar Bekker and Dutch Cartesianism
6.	Vlad Alexandrescu	Bucharest	Regius and Sorbière
7	Dana Jalobeanu	Bucharest	Francis Bacon\’s natural history: a contextual reading
8.	Sorana Corneanu	Bucharest	No
9.	Mihnea Dobre	Bucharest	Cartesianism and Chemistry
10.	Sorin Costreie	Bucharest	No

Participants:

Nr.	Name	University	Level	Title of paper
1.	Edward Slowik	Winona State University	Professor PhD	Locke and Berkeley’s Epistemological Rendition of Newtonian Space
2.	Alexandra Tavares Torero-Ibad	Université de Liège	Postdoctoral fellow PhD	The importance of non mechanical philosophies in Charles Sorel’s Traité des Novateurs (1655)
3.	Katherine Dunlop	Brown University	Assistant Professor, PhD	No
4.	Delphine Bellis	Utrecht University	PostDocResearcher PhD	Vision at the Crossroads of Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Philosophy in Descartes’ Thought
5.	Lucian Petrescu	University of Bucharest	PhD Candidate	Descartes, Fromondus and Plempius. A game of chess and \”crass philosophy\”
6.	Grigore Vida	University of Bucharest	PhD Candidate	Newton on Matter Theory
7.	Raphaële Fruet	Newnham College, Cambridge	PhD Candidate	The Bible Against Aristotle: The Hermeneutical Cosmology of Pierre de La Primaudaye and its Reception in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
8.	Madalina Giurgea	Bucharest	MA Student	Descartes and Charleton on mind body interaction
9.	Doina Rusu	Bucharest	PhD Candidate	Imagination in Bacon’s Experimental Science
10.	Monica Solomon	University of Bucharest	MA Student	No

Graduate Students:

4 graduate students from the University of Notre-Dame: Erin Islo, Kristopher Kast, Kevin Mickey, Marta Michalska

2 graduate students from the University of Bucharest: Mihai Dragos Vadana

1 graduate student from the Princeton University: Kristin Primus