Sarton Centre for History of Science

Seminar

Apr 25
Knowing and debating in classical India: a Jain perspective

Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Universiteit Gent)
Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44

Apr 4
On the Transformations of Climate Modeling

Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne Université)
Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44

Mar 14
Metaphysics and Method in Du Châtelet’s Institutions

Andrew Janiak (Duke University)
Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44

Feb 7
The Debates on Concept Formation in Medieval Thought

Véronique Decaix (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44

Jan 17
Aristotle on Generation, Development, and Perfection

Justin Smith (Université Paris Diderot)
Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44

Dec 13
"Vegeto ergo sum: the changing fortunes of the irritable self in the early modern period"

Guido Giglioni (Università di Macerata)
Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44

Nov 29
"The Monogenesis Controversy: A Historical and Philosophical Investigation" & "Of Orthogenesis: An Account of Bergson’s “Psychological Interpretation” of Evolution"

Tano Posteraro (Penn State University)

Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44

Nov 8
Paradigm Shifts and the Life of the Mind. The Legacy of Alexandre Koyre

Rodney Parker (Universität Paderborn)
Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44

Oct 12
Sarton Medal Lecture - Robert S. Westman - Science and Survival: Jonas Salk, Jacob Bronowski and the ‘Two Cultures’ Question

Robert S. Westman (University of California, San Diego)
Seminar

Location: 
Aud. Cumont - Campus Boekentoren - Blandijnberg 2

Oct 11
Sarton Chair Lecture - Robert S. Westman - Either/Or vs. Both/And: Carl Gustav Jung, Wolfgang Pauli and the Kepler-Fludd Polemic

Robert S. Westman (University of California, San Diego)
Seminar

Location: 
Aula - Voldersstraat 9