Friday, May 10
9.00-9.30: Opening address
9.30-10.30: Richard Serjeantson: ‘Francis Bacon and the “Interpretation of Nature” in the Late Renaissance’
10.50-11.30: Daniel Schwartz (University of California San Diego): Crucial Instances and Bacon’s Quest for Certainty
11.30-12.10: Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest): Crucial Experiments and Demonstrative Induction in Newton’s New Theory about Light and Colors
13.20-14.00: Monica Solomon (University of Notre-Dame): Newton’s Mathematical Time Remains Hidden in Plain Sight
14.00 – 14.40: Lucio Mare (University of South Florida): Leibniz’ Soul Pointilism: from the Resurrection of Body to the Indestructibility of Bugs
15.00-15.40: Sarah Tropper (King’s College, London): What ‘Matter’ Might Have Been for the Young (and Older) Leibniz
15.40-16.20: Julia Weckend (University of Reading): Leibniz on Ordinary Objects
16:40-17.20: Ville Paukkonen (University of Helsinki): Berkeley’s Notion of Notion
17:30-18:30: Vlad Alexandrescu: Some Remarks of an Intellectual Historian Facing a Herculean Task: Translating Anew Descartes’ Correspondence.
Saturday, May 11
9.30-10.30: Peter Anstey: The Problem of Necessity in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
10.50-11.30: Mike Misiewicz (King’s College, London): “The ‘geology’ of the Short Treatise: Tracing the evolution of Spinoza’s conception of the mind-body relationship”
11.30-12.10: Daniel Collette (University of South Florida): Pascal, Spinoza, and Defining “Cartesianism”
13.20-14.00: Aaron Spink (University of South Florida): Descartes and the Eternal Truths
14.00-14.40: Max Gavrilciuc (University of Bucharest): The Angelic Mind in Descartes’ Replies to Burman and Henry More
15.00-15.40: Mihai Vadana (University of Bucharest): The Innate Idea of God and the Limits of Natural Theology: Descartes and Voetius
15.40-16.20: Dan Savinescu (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj): Plurality of Worlds and Philosophy of Language in the Writings of John Wilkins
16:40-17:20: Matthew Keeler (Texas Tech University): Reid and the Representational Theory of Mind
17.20-18.00: Bennett McNulty (University of California, Irvine): Rehabilitating the Regulative Use of Reason. Kant on Empirical and Chemical Laws