Colloque
"The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy".
Grenoble, MSH-Alpes, 17 au 19 novembre 2005.


Thurday morning, Historical contruction of the category of «mechanical philosophy»

- Daniel Garber (Princeton University), «Notes on the pre-history of the mechanical philosophy»

- Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), «How Francis Bacon became Baconian. Hagiography in the Early History of the Mechanical Philosophy »

- Sophie Roux (université de Grenoble II), «L'empire de la philosophie mécanique en partage : anciens et nouveaux philosophes (1660-1690)»
 

Thurday afternoon, Mechanical philosophy and theories of matter

-Victor Navarro (Universitat de València), «Matter and Form in Sixteenth Century Spain: Case Studies»

- Craig Martin (Harvard University), «Matter, Form, and Motion in Late Aristotelian Meteorology»

- Christoph Luethy (Radboud University Nijmegen), «The Intense Flirt of Matter Theory with Mechanical Philosophy»
 

Friday morning, Mechanical philosophy and mechanics

- W. Roy Laird (University of Carleton, Ottawa), «Hero of Alexandria in the Renaissance»

- Frédéric de Buzon (université de Strasbourg II), «Le physico-mathématique chez Beeckman et Descartes »

- Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University Nijmegen), «Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Early Modern Natural Philosophy. Some Case-studies»
 

Friday afternoon, Mechanical philosophy, mathematics and experience

- Ofer Gal (university of Sidney), «Baroque Science: the Invention of the Universal Constant»

- Elzbietta Jung-Palczewska (university of Lodz), «A Transmission of Ideas from Galileo to Newton. Walter Charleton on Mechanics»

- Antoni Malet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), «MathematicalMechanics versus Mechanical Philosophy in the Hydrostatics of John Wallis and James Gregorie»
 

Saturday morning, Limits of mechanical explanations

- Antonio Clericuzzio (Università di Cassino), «Atomism and Generation in Italy in the seventeenth century»

-  Rémi Fanckowiak (université de Lille  III), «Du Clos critique de Boyle»

- Susana Gomez-Lopez (Universitat de Madrid), «The Mechanization of Light in Galilean Science»
 

Saturday afternoon, Mechanical philosophy and some big shots

- Alan Gabbey (Barnard College, New York), «Spinoza and Mechanical Philosophy»

- Michel Fichant (université de Paris IV), «Leibniz et la philosophie mécanique»