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JULY 2015
June 29 – July 4
, Room Klimt, 366A*Case Studies in Mathematical Practice
Internationa Workshop organised by Kenneth Manders (Univ. of Pittsburgh) and SPHERE.
Participants: Andrew Arana (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jordan Bohall (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Karine Chemla (SPHERE, CNRS), Jessica Carter (Univ. of Southern Denmark), Davide Crippa (Univ. Paris Diderot and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte), William D’Alessandro, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago), Sylvia De Toffoli (Stanford Univ.), Jeremy Heis (Univ. of California, Irvine), Joshua Hunt, Univ. of Cambridge), Shay Logan (Univ. of Minnesota), Jemma Lorenat (Simon Fraser Univ. & UPMC), Douglas Marshall (Carleton College), Marco Panza (Univ. Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne), Jeffrey Schatz (Univ. of California, Irvine), Irina Starikova (Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil), Iulian Toader (Univ. of Bucharest).
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All informations (presentation, programme, etc) are available here, on the website of the Workshop.
Friday 3
, 14:00 – 16:00, Room, 371ALes neurosciences, le sujet et ses formes
Study Day organised by par Marie Gaille (CNRS, SPHERE) in the context of the ANR Project NormaStim
- 9:30 – 10:30 Loraine Gerardin-Laverge (PhD Student in Philosophy, University Paris-Ouest Nanterre)
Identité du soi, mémoire et neurosciences.
- 10:30 – 11:00 Géraldine Aïdan (CR CNRS, CERSA, University Paris II)
L’émergence d’un nouveau sujet du droit : le sujet psychique.
- 11:45– 12:45 Alain Ehrenberg (DirR CNRS, CERMES 3)
Le sujet des neurosciences cognitives ? Un sujet pratique.
- 14:00 – 15:00 Denis Forest (Pr, Dpt of philosophy, University Paris-Ouest Nanterre)
Neurosciences et infaillibilité de la connaissance de soi.
- 14:00 – 15:00 Denis Forest (Pr, Dpt of philosophy, University Paris-Ouest Nanterre)
Neurosciences et infaillibilité de la connaissance de soi.
- 15:00 – 16:00 Marie Gaille (DirR CNRS, SPHERE)
Le cerveau, marqueur de l’identité humaine ?
Programme to download.
Scientific Conception: Marie Gaille, with the support of Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier et Baptiste Moutaud
Organisation: Marie Gaille, with help of Nad Fachard, Laurent Lemoine, Patricia Philippe
!! exceptionnally Saturday 4, 10:00 – 13:00, thanks to contact Mr Hasnaoui on Wednesday 1rst latest to aceed to the Room Malevitch, 483A!!
Averroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE, UMR 7219)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde.
July 2015, May 2015, April 2015, March 2015, February 2015January 2015, December 2014, November 2014, October 2014
JUNE 2015
Programme to download
Dates online: 1rst, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30
Monday 1rst, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Klein, 371A
Seminar Historiography 2015
- CHEN Zhihui (SAW Project, CNRS)
Comparisons between Tianyuan, Siyuan Procedures and Algebra Drawn by Wylie and Li Shanlan.
Tuesdays & Thursdays 2->25
, 14:00 (double sessions) or 16:00, Room Klimt, 366APhilmaths Intersem 6
Participants : G. Sundholm (Univ. of Leiden) (2/06), D. Rowe (Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz) (4/06), G. Dowek (INRIA, Deducteam) (9/06), J. Bell (Univ. of Western Ontario) & C. Posy (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) (11/06), F. Brechenmacher (Univ. d’Artois ; CNRS) & M. Panza (IHPST) (16/06), M. van Atten (IHPST) & D. McCarty (Indiana Univ.-Bloomington) (18/06), N. Sidoli (Waseda Univ.) (23/06), O. Harari (Tel Aviv Univ.) (25/06).
Abstracts & details available online.
Tuesday 2
, 10:00 – 12:00, Room Alechinsky, 437APhilosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (Projet ERC PhiloQuantum, SPHERE)
Groupe de travail sur les Champs (Stacks) (6).
, 17:00 – 20:00, Room 888C, 8e étage, bâtiment C des Grands Moulins
Conceptualizing Human Diversity : history, science and philosophy
:: Contemporary issues in the study of genetic polymorphism
- Amade M’Charek (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Race and the Return of the Phenotype: The case of forensics.
- Marianne Sommer (Universität Luzern)
Building population-specific trees: From blood-group to genome-wide analysis of modern human phylogeny.
, Room 640, EHESS, 190 av. de France, 75013 Paris
Workshop Technology between Europe and United States in the XIXth & XXeth centuries: meeting & ignorance
Organisation : P. Bret (Centre Alexandre Koyré), G. Carnino (Univ. de Technologie de Compiègne), L. Hilaire-Perez (Centre Alexandre Koyré), A. Majstorac (CECMC), A. Potofsky (Univ. Paris Diderot), M. Thébaud-Sorger (Centre Alexandre Koyré), K. Vermeir (CNRS, SPHERE), E. Schatzberg (Univ. of Wisconsin) & F. Bray (Univ. of Edinburgh). Avec le soutien de la Society for the History of Technology.
Intervenants : F. Bray (Univ. of Edinburgh), J. Baudry (EHESS, CAK / Harvard Univ.), K. Chatzis (ENPC/LATTS), L. Coupaye (Univ. College of London), V. Dray (Univ. paris 1, IDHE), X. Guchet (Univ. Paris 1 / CETCOPRA), T. Prévéraud (Centre F. Viète, Univ. de Nantes), S. Sabatto (EHESS CAK), K. Vermeir (CNRS, SPHERE), A. Voskhul (Univ. of Pennsylvania).
Friday 5
, 12:30 – 17:30, Centre Antique & médiéval, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneSeminar of translation The Aristotle Metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias
Translation: passages of the Commentaire to Book Little Alpha.
, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Klein, 371A
Seminar SAW of Historiography: 2015
- Rivka Feldhay (Cohn Instite of Tel Aviv University)
Jesuits’ attitudes to ancient science.
, 10:00 – 12:00, Room Alechinsky, 437A
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (Projet ERC PhiloQuantum, SPHERE)
Working Group on Stacks (7).
Wednesday 10
, 14:30 – 17:30, Room Rothko, 412BHistory of Light
Varia : mémoires & manuels. De la recherche à l’enseignement de l’optique
- Arnaud Mayrargue (SPHERE)
Les Doutes de D’Alembert. - Danielle Fauque (GHDSO-EST, Université Paris Sud)
Les manuels d’optique pour l’enseignement : Du Smith au Fleury-Mathieu en passant par le Chwolson.
, 10:00–16:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age
:: Météorologiques & Écritures
Organization: Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, SPHERE)
Chair: Resianne Fontaine (University of Amsterdam)
- 9:30 Emma Gannagé (Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies Georgetown University)
Al-Kindi on Matter and Qur’anic Exegesis.
- 10:15 – 11:00 David Wirmer (Thomas Institut, University of Cologne)
‘Behold, it was very good’’: Maimonides as Reader of Ibn Bāǧǧa’s Commentary on the Meteorology.
Chair: Barbara Obrist (CNRS, SPHERE-CHSPAM)
- 11:30 Reimund Leicht (The Hebrew University)
Ma‘asseh Bereshit as Meteorology: Yosef Tov Elem’s Interpretation of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Genesis.
- 12:15 – 13:30 Cristina Ciucu (IRHT, Paris)
An Improbable Encounter: Aristotle’s Meteorology in Kabbalistic Garb.
, Room Luc Valentin, 454A
Conference Aristotle’s Practice of Definition (Ethics & Politics)
International Conference organised by Pierre-Marie Morel (Université Paris 1, Gramata, SPHERE) et l’IUF.
Participants: Voula Tsouna, Cristina Viano, Donald Morrison, Dimitri El Murr, Timothée Gautier, David Charles, M.-N. Ribas
Friday 12
, 13:00 – 18:00, Centre Antique & médiéval, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneSeminar of Translation of the Elements of Theology, Proclus
Friday 12
, 13:00 – 15:00, Room Rothko, 412BStriving for Coherence : Readings in Averroes’ Incoherence of the Incoherence
- Ziad Bouakl (ENS, Paris)
Choosing between Similars: Averroes and al-Ghazâlî on the Balance of Evidence.
Friday 12
, 15:00 – 17:00 , Room Malevitch, 483AAverroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, SPHERE)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde.
, 9:30–17:00, Room Mondrian, 646A
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Morning: 9:30 – 13:00
:: Les éditions et réécritures des Eléments d’Euclide et la question des fondements
Session organized by Pascal Crozet (CNRS, SPHERE).
- Pascal Crozet
al-Qûhî et le quatrième postulat
- Sabine Rommevaux-Tani
Considérations sur le travail de Campanus (XIIIe siècle) concernant les principes des Eléments d’Euclide et quelques exemples de sa diffusion au XVIe siècle.
- Vicenzo de Risi (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
The Development of Euclidean Axiomatics from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age.
Afternoon, 14:00 – 17:00
Discussion about the programme 2015-16
, 10:00 – 12:00, Room Alechinsky, 437A
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (Projet ERC PhiloQuantum, SPHERE)
Working Group on Stacks (8).
Monday 22, Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24
, Room Marc Bloch (UFR Histoire), University Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneWorkshop Alexandre d’Aphrodise et la métaphysique aristotélicienne
International Workshop in the context of the ANR Project "Alexandre d’Aphrodise et la métaphysique aristotélicienne" organised by Anne Balansard (Aix-Marseille Université), Annick Jaulin (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, SPHERE), Michel Crubellier (Université Lille 3, STL)
Participants:
Thomas Auffret (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Anne Balansard (Aix-Marseille Université), Michel Crubellier (Université Lille 3), Silvia Fazzo (Università degli Studi di Trento), Leone Gazziero (Université Lille 3), Pantelis Golitsis (Université Aristote de Thessalonique), Annick Jaulin (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, SPHERE), Gérard Journée (ANR, CPAF UMR 7297), David Lefebvre (Université Blaise Pascal), Claire Louguet (Université Lille 3), Marwan Rashed (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Zeng Yi (Université du Sichuan, Chine).
, 9:00 – 12:30, Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
- Martin Hils (Univ. Paris Diderot, Equipe de Logique)
Pila-Wilkie theorem and diophantine geometry.
Tuesday 23
, 10:00 – 12:00, Room Alechinsky, 437APhilosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (Projet ERC PhiloQuantum, SPHERE)
Working Group on Stacks (9).
Wednesday 24 & Thursday 25 juin
, Université Paris DiderotColloque Modernizers : Changing science and society in the Middle East and North Africa (1870s-1930s)
Organisation : Francisco Javier Martínez (SPHERE), Pascal Crozet (CNRS, SPHERE). With the support of the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships European Programme.
Participants : P. Ageron (Laboratoire Nicolas Oresme & IREM, Univ. de Caen), M. Anastassiadou (INALCO), B. S. Anderson (Boston Univ.), E. Ceylan (Yunus Emre Institute), P. Crozet (CNRS, SPHERE), Ş. Etker (Independent Scholar, Istanbul), F. Günergun (Dpt. of the History of Science, Istanbul Univ.), M. Kocaman (Dpt. of the History of Science, Istanbul Univ.), F. J. Martínez (MCF, SPHERE), H. Masoumi-Hamedani (Science Dpt, Center for the Great Encyclopedia, Tehran), Y. Yanıkdağ (Univ. of Richmond).
Programme to download.
, 14:00 – 16:00, Köln
Striving for Coherence : Readings in Averroes’ Incoherence of the Incoherence
- Peter Adamson (LMU, Münich)
Averroes on God’s Causality.
Monday 29, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Klein, 371A
Seminar Historiography 2015
- Justin Smith (University Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
What Do Historians of Philosophy Study? Some Methodological Problems in Defining a Corpus without Boundaries.
, 10:00 – 12:00, Room Alechinsky, 437A
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (Projet ERC PhiloQuantum, SPHERE)
Working Group on Stacks (10).
July 2015, April 2015, March 2015, February 2015January 2015, December 2014, November 2014, October 2014
MAY 2015
Programme to download (at 5/05/2015).
Dates: 5, 6, 11, 19, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
5<-]Tuesday 5, !! 13:00 – 16:30!!, Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
:: Autour de Moritz Pasch (2/2)
- Philippe Nabonnand (Archives Poincaré, Univ. de Lorraine)
Moritz Pasch, un empiriste chez les mathématiciens.
Tuesday 5
, 10:00 – 17:30, Room Luc Valentin, 454A, & Wednesday 6, 10:00, 12:30, Room Klein, 371ACategory theory, old and new dynamics, mathematics and philosophy
Organisers : J.-P. Marquis, J.-J. Szczeciniarz. Co-organisation: Laboratoire SPHERE & ERC Project Philosophy of Canonical Quantum Gravity (Principal Investigator: Gabriel Catren, FP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement N° 263523, ERC PhiloQuantumGravity).
Tuesday 5
- 10:00 Presentation
- 10:15 – 11:15 René Guitart (IMJ)
Autocatégories.
- 11:30 – 12:30 Christian Lair (Univ. Paris Diderot)
Diagrammes.
- 14:15 Olivia Caramello (MCF, Univ. Paris Diderot)
La théorie des « ponts » topos théoriques.
- 15:00 – 16:00 Jean-Pierre Marquis (Université de Montréal)
Nécessaires ou accessoires : le cas des catégories triangulées.
- 16:30 – 17:30 Mathieu Anel (Projet ERC PhiloQuantum, SPHERE)
Catégories supérieures et catégories stables.
Wednesday 6
- 9:30 Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Remarques philosophiques sur les topologies de Grothendieck.
- 10:30 – 11:00 Stéphane Dugowson (LISMMA, SupMeca)
Possibilités de principe et possibilités effectives dans les dynamiques catégoriques.
- 11:30 – 12:30 Jean Benabou (Université Paris-Nord)
titre précisé ultérieurement.
Wednesday 6
, 13:00 – 17:00, EHESS, Room 3, RdC, building Le France, 190-198 av de France, 75013 ParisMathematics with or without discipline: Ethnomathematics, Anthropology, History
- Perig Pitrou (LAS, CNRS-EHESS)
Le comptage rituel en Mésoamérique comme dispositif de mise en relation.
- Ingrid Hall (dpt of Anthropology, University of Montréal) (en visioconférence)
Compter et ordonner pour penser le lien social. Réflexions à partir de l’ethnographie de la mise à jour des listes électorales dans une communauté des Andes Sud-péruviennes..
Wednesday 6
, 14:30, !! Room Alechinsky, 437A !!Seminar of Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (CNRS, ERC PhiloQuantum)
Working Group on Stacks. (2)
, 9:30–13:00 (tbc), Room Mondrian, 646A
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
:: At the crossroads: the genesis between topological set theory and geometry (Poincaré, Hausdorff)
Session organised by Pascal Bertin & Ramzi Kebaili, (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE).
- Pascal Bertin, Ramzi Kebaili
Genèse de la topologie générale : l’affluent géométrique et l’affluent ensemblist .
- Moritz Epple (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
Nombre et opération chez John Wallis.
Programme actualized soon online.
, 17:00 – 20:00, !!! session cancelled !!!
Conceptualizing Human Diversity : history, science and philosophy
:: Le savoir biologique sur la diversité humaine au XXe siècle
- Veronika Lipphardt (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Population genetics and the knowledge on human variations in the XXeth century. (à confirmer)
- Claude-Olivier Doron (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE & Centre Canguilhem)
Le concept de « race » et son évolution dans l’hémotypologie et l’hématologie géographique française : Ruffié et Bernard.
, 17:00 – 20:00, Room 888C, Level 8, entrance C, Building Grands Moulins
Conceptualizing Human Diversity : history, science and philosophy
:: Le problème de la diversité humaine au XVIIIe siècle : histoire naturelle de l’homme et politique
- Staffan Müller-Wille (Univ. of Exeter/ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Human Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Exactly Changed and Why ?
- Silvia Sebastiani (CRH-EHESS)
La Grande-Bretagne, le singe et l’homme. Débats autour de l’esclavage dans les années 1770.
, 13:00 – 17:00, EHESS, Room 3, RdC, Building Le France, 190-198 av de France, 75013 Paris
Mathematics with or without discipline: Ethnomathematics, Anthropology, History
- Sophie Desrosiers (EHESS) et Eric Vandendriessche (SPHERE)
Atelier de pratiques à caractère mathématique.
, 9:30–13:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age
:: Structures génériques (2/2)
Journée organisée par Annick Jaulin (Univ. Paris 1, SPHERE)
- 10:00 Frédérique Ildefonse (CNRS, UPR 76)
Que viennent modifier les catégories stoïciennes ?
- 11:00 Gweltaz Guyomarc’h (CNRS, CPAF)
Alexandre d’Aphrodise : genres d’êtres, genres de prédicats ?
- 14:00 Jérôme Laurent (Université de Caen)
Plotin ou la confusion des genres (traités 38 et 42-44).
- 15:00 Isabelle Koch (Université Aix-Marseille)
Appliquer les catégories à Dieu ? Les tentatives d’Augustin.
, 9:30 – 12:30, Room Kandinsky, 631B
’’Arabic’’ Mathematics & Mathematics in the Renaissance
- Marc Moyon (Université de Limoges)
L’art de résoudre des équations quadratiques dans le Liber restauracionis.
Friday 22
, 12:30 – 17:30, Centre AntiqueSeminar of translation The Aristotle Metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias
Translation: Commentaire of Alexander of Aphrodisias to the Métaphysique of Aristotle.
Friday 22
, 14:00 – 17:00, Room Mondrian, 646ADeep brain stimulation and the History of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases
- Manuel Correia (University of Coimbra)
La psychochirurgie et la rhétorique des résultats..
- Jean-Noël Missa (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
De la psychochirurgie à la stimulation cérébrale profonde.
Friday 22
, 15:00 – 17:00 , Room Malevitch, 483AAverroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, SPHERE)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde.
, 17:00 – 20:00, Room 888C, Level 8, entrance C, Building Grands Moulins
Conceptualizing Human Diversity : history, science and philosophy
:: Penser la diversité humaine : quelques enjeux conceptuels
- Carole Reynaud-Paligot (NYU Paris/CRHXIX)
L’anthropologie physique et le problème de la diversité des races humaines à la fin du XIXe siècle.
, 9:30 – 17:00, Room 0014, Building Sophie Germain
ED 400 PhDs Students Study Day
- 9:30 Philippe Stamenkovic (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
L’inconsistance de la méthodologie transcendantale de Kant.
- 10:25 – 11:15 Robin Bosdoveix (LDAR)
Le concept de végétal dans la formation des enseignants de sciences de la vie et de la terre : approches didactique, épistémologique.
- 11:40 Marie Itoiz (EST)
Constitution d’un nouveau champ de recherche en géologie : la pétrographie microscopique (1810-1860).
- 12:30 – 14:00 Pique-nique
- 14:05 Guillaume Loizelet (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
ilm al-hay’a : textes et enjeux.
- 14:55 – 15:45 Adry Manrique (LDAR)
Les accompagnements des pratiques pédagogiques des enseignants du supérieur : l’enseignement de la physique en premier cycle universitaire.
- 16:10 – 17:00 Xiafoei Wang (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
The concept of rigour in Lagrange’s works on analysis.
Wednesday 27
, 14:30 – 17:30, !! Room Weil au CAPHES (ENS) !! , 45, rue d’Ulm, 75005 ParisHistory of Light
Theory of colors (II)
- Alan Shapiro (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
Newton’s Assessment of Experimental Evidence in his Optical Investigations.
, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Mondrian, 646A
History of Science, History of Text
- Isabelle Lémonon (EHESS, Centre Alexandre Koyré)
La Table alphabétique et analytique de chimie de Mme Dupiery : quels enjeux de savoir ?
- Discussion on programme of academic year 2015-2016
- Discussion, leaded by Florence Bretelle-Establet & Stéphane Schmitt, about the book in preparation ‘‘Pieces and parts in scientific texts’’.
Thursday 28
, 10:00 – 13:00, Room Kandinsky, 631BMathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries & PHD Students: Working group in History & philosophy of physics
:: Working group ‘‘Exact Sciences’’ (2/2)
- Frédéric Brechenmacher (Ecole polytechnique)
Les Méthodes nouvelles de la mécanique céleste d’Henri Poincaré, témoin des interactions entre mécanique et algèbre au XIXe siècle.
, Paris I, Centre Antique et médiéval
Seminar of Translation of the Elements of Theology, Proclus
Friday 29
, 14:30–17:00, Room Malevitch, 483A et samedi 30, 10:00–12:30, Université Paris 1-Sorbonne Panthéon, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 ParisPhysics and Logic. Natural Philosophy and Theory of Science in Aristotle
:: Définition et division (II)
Friday 14:30–17:00,
Room Malevitch, 483A, University Paris Diderot, Building Condorcet, 4, rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris
- Maddalena Bonelli (Univ. di Bergamo)
Aristote: définition et matière.
- Fernando Rey-Puente (Univ. Belo Horizonte)
Peut-on parler d’une définition au sens strict du changement (Aristote, Phys., III, 1-3?
Saturday 10:00–12:30,
Room Cavaillès, stair C, 1st floor, University Paris 1-Sorbonne Panthéon, 17 rue de la Sorbonne
- Paolo Crivelli (Univ. de Genève)
Dialectic in the Early Peripatos.
- J.-B. Gourinat (CNRS/Univ. Paris Sorbonne)
La citrouille, le polypode et l’héritage. L’utilité de la division pour la définition, de Platon aux stoïciens.
July 2015, May 2015, March 2015, February 2015January 2015, December 2014, November 2014, October 2014
APRIL 2015
Programme to download (au 03/03/2015).
Actualized dates online: 1, 7, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 24, 28
Wednesday 1, 13:00 – 17:00, EHESS, room 3, RdC, bât. Le France, 190-198 av de France 75013 Paris
Mathematics with or without discipline: Ethnomathematics, Anthropology, History
- Burt Hopkins (Seattle University)
Philosophical Problems in the Foundation of Arithmetic : Ancient and Modern.
- Jean-Marie Coquard (PhdStudent EHESS)
Les diagrammes dialectiques de Simon Stevin.
, 9:30 – 12:00, Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries & PHD Students: Working group in History & philosophy of physics
:::: Working group ‘‘Exact Sciences’’ (1/2)
- José Ferreiros (Univ. de Séville)
Unreasonable Effectiveness in Context : some historical remarks on Wigner’s famous 1960 paper.
Friday 10
, 13:00 – 17:00, Room 9, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, Paris 6ePowers of Imagination. Historical Approach.
- 13:00–15:00 Ana Debenedetti (Londres, The Victoria and Albert Museum)
Imagination et participation : art et philosophie à Florence. - 15:00–17:00 Jean-Marc Mandosio (EPHE)
L’imagination et les pouvoirs des esprits selon Pierre de Zélande (fin du XVe siècle).
Friday 10
, 14:00 – 16:00, amphi 1, building Olympe de GougesMeetings HPS of Paris Diderot
- Klein, Hilbert, and the making of modern mathematics in Göttingen*.
Book by David Rowe (Gutenberg Univ., Mainz) presented by the author (* work in progress)
Friday 10
, Paris I, Centre Antique et médiévalSeminar of Translation of the Elements of Theology, Proclus
, 9:30–17:00, Room Mondrian, 646A
History and Philosophy of Mathematics & Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
:: Historiography: Comparing in History of Mathematics (9:30–13:00)
Organized within ERC Project SAW
- Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project) & Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Introduction [in English].
- Pierre Chaigneau (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Comparisons around Egyptian mathematics in Otto Neugebauer and Kurt Vogel’s dissertations [in English with French documents].
- Chen Zihui (CNRS, SAW Project)
Wylie’s Comparative Study on Sino-Western Transmission of Astral Sciences in Ancient China: The Case of the Synthesis Study on the Weekly Calendrical System [in English].
:: HPM, joint session with seminar Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries (14:00–17:00)
- David Rowe (Gutenberg Univ., Mayence)
On editing Mathematische Annalen, 1872-1928.
, 13:00 – 17:00, EHESS, room 3, RdC, bât. Le France, 190-198 av de France 75013 Paris
Mathematics with or without discipline: Ethnomathematics, Anthropology, History
- Sophie Desrosiers (EHESS) & Eric Vandendriessche (SPHERE)
Tissage, vannerie, jeux de ficelle : textiles et mathématiques.
, 9:30 – 16:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
History of Science, History of Text
:: Collections used in The History of Sciences – Scholarly value, market value, patrimonial value”
Meeting organised by Magali Dessagnes (SPHERE, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project) et Christine Proust (SPHERE, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), with the group SAW.
- Wendy Shaw (Freie Universität Berlin)
Intersecting Narratives, Interpolating Collections : the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin.
- Magali Dessagnes
Elias Géjou, seller of antiquities from Mesopotamia, heart of a network of collectors
and scholars.
- Round table chaired by Florence Bretelle-Establet, with the participation of Jens Høyrup (Roskilde University) and Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project)
, 9:30 – 16:30, Room Kandinsky, 631B
Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age
:: Authorship attribution of anonymous medieval texts: methods, challenges and results
Organisation: Silvia Di Donato (CNRS, SPHERE).
- 9:30 Silvia Di Donato
Presentation
- 9:45–10:45 Jean-Pierre Rothschild (IRHT, CNRS)
Du danger de quelques paralogismes en critique d’attribution. Réflexions sur une pratique (hébreu et latin).
- 11:00 Mauro Zonta (Université de Rome, La Sapienza)
How to ascribe anonymous Medieval Aristotelian commentaries in various languages : three different cases.
- 12:00–13:00 Judith Kogel (IRHT, CNRS)
Datation, localisation, sources et influences d’un abrégé anonyme du Sefer ha-Shorashim.
- 14:30 Dominique Poirel (IRHT, CNRS)
Les preuves, les indices et leur interprétation. Critique d’attribution et littérature latine du Moyen Âge.
- 15:30–16:30 Jean-Marc Mandosio (EPHE, Sorbonne)
Le labyrinthe d’Hermès. Difficultés et apories de la critique d’attribution des textes alchimiques médiévaux, entre anonymes, pseudépigraphes et textes indatables.
, 9:30 – 12:30, Room Kandinsky, 631B
’’Arabic’’ Mathematics & Mathematics in the Renaissance
- Sabine Rommevaux-Tani (CNRS, SPHERE)
La résolution des équations du troisième degré par Simon Stevin dans l’Arithmetique (1585) : des avancées significatives par rapport à l’exposé de Gerolamo Cardamo dans l’Ars magna (1545).
Friday 17
,!! 13:00 – 15:00, Room Rothko, 412B !!Striving for coherence: Readings in Averroes’ Incoherence of the Incoherence
- Cristina Cerami (CNRS, SPHERE)
Génération & création dans le Tahâfut.
Friday 17
, 15:00 – 17:00, Room Malevitch, 483AAverroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Cristina Cerami (CNRS, SPHERE)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 4.
, 14:00 – 17:00, Room Mondrian, 646A
Deep brain stimulation and the History of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases
- Vincent Pidoux (Université de Lausanne)
Efficacité et progrès thérapeutiques en question : le cas de la stimulation cérébrale profonde des patients dépressifs.
- Baptiste Moutaud (SPHERE)
Comment faire l’histoire de la stimulation cérébrale profonde ? Acteurs, pratiques, espaces d’une technologie aux frontières poreuses.
, 14:00 – 17:00, Room Klein, 371A
Seminar of Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (CNRS, ERC PhiloQuantum)
Working Group on Stacks. (2)
July 2015, May 2015, April 2015, February 2015January 2015, December 2014, November 2014, October 2014
MARCH 2015
Programme to download, english version page 6 (actualized until 2015/03/03). Dates online, actualized : 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31
Monday 2, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Gris, 734A
"La montée vers l’absolu" galoisien(ne), de Platon à Lawvere, II
Talk: Julien Page (CNRS, ERC Project PhiloquantumGravity), in the context of the ERC Project PhiloQuantumGravity.
, 9:30 – 12:00, Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
- Maarten Bullynck (Univ. Paris 8 & SPHERE)
A la recherche de l’essence des démonstrations mathématiques allemandes au début du XIXe siècle.
Tuesday 3
, 17:00 – 19:00, Room Malevitch, 483AHistory and Philosophy of Physics
- Hasok Chang (Univ. of Cambridge)
Conflicting theories of the battery in the early nineteenth century.
, 17:00 – 20:00, Room 888C, 8e étage, Building C des Grands Moulins
Conceptualizing Human Diversity : history, science and philosophy
:: Penser la diversité humaine : quelques enjeux conceptuels
- Justin Smith (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Espèces, races et ’natural kinds’ : pourquoi la race ne peut-elle pas être intégrée dans le système de logique millien ?
- Claude-Olivier Doron (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE & Centre Canguilhem)
« L’homme contraire et dissemblable à soi-même ». Le modèle de l’altération comme grille d’analyse des savoirs sur la diversité humaine.
, 9:00–17:00, Thesis Room, level 5, Building Halle aux farines
PhDs ED400 Workshops: Construction of knowledge objects: procedures and instruments
Organisation: Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE & projet ERC SAW), Sandrine Pellé (Univ. Paris Diderot, LDAR).
9:00 Welcome
- 9:20 David Cross (LIRDEF, Université de Montpellier 2)
Ce que les données « font » aux objets de savoir. Exemple de l’inférence de connaissances de l’enseignant à partir de données vidéo.
- 10:10–11:00 Sabine Rommevaux-Tani (CNRS, SPHERE)
Comment faire l’histoire des savoirs médiévaux : le statut des textes en question.
- 10:10–12:20 Caroline Leininger-Frézal (EHGO, Université Paris Diderot) & Catherine Heitz-Campuzan (Lycée Saint-Paul Bourdan-Blanc)
La démarche d’étude de cas : d’un objet de recherche à un objet de savoir.
- 14:00 Leo Coutellec (ENS, Lyon)
Des objets complexes aux objets (des)intégratifs : comment appréhender
un objet comme Alzheimer ?
- 14:50–15:40 Cécile Ouvrier-Buffet (CEREP, Université de Reims Champagne Ardennes)
Modéliser l’activité de définition du mathématicien.
- 16:00 Catherine Radtka (CNES, ISCC)
Etudier des objets plutôt que des textes ; comment un changement de regard sur les manuels modifie les questionnements du chercheur.
16:50–17:00 Conclusion
, 10:00-16:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
Empirisme et Fonction cérébrale à l’âge classique
In the context of the thematic study days “Empirisme et fonction cérébrale” organised by Céline Cherici, Jean-Claude Dupont, Charles Wolfe.
- 10:00 Introduction (Céline Cherici, Jean-Claude Dupont, Charles Wolfe)
- 10:20 Pieter Present (Université de Gand)
Hooke & empiricism: making the brain a mirror of nature.
- 11:10 –12:00 Céline Cherici (UPJV & SPHERE)
Cerveau et matérialité des facultés dans la correspondance entre V. Malacarne et Ch. Bonnet (1778-1788).
- 14:00 Jean-Gael Barbara (NPA & SPHERE)
La démarche d’étude de cas : d’un objet de recherche à un objet de savoir.
- 14:50 –15:40 Paolo Pecere (Université de Cassin)
Kantian arguments on the limit between psychology and neurophysiology and their legacy in XIXth Century Germany
Thursday 5, 17:00-19:00, salle 312A
Talk of Douglas Jesseph (University of South Florida): "Hobbes, Roberval, and the Geometrical Method"
Organisation : Justin Smith (Univ. Paris Diderot & SPHERE).
, 9:30-17:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
Workshop SAW "Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral Sciences"
:: Motions, Numerical Progressions, Cycles and Remainders (2/2): Zigzag and progression in mathematical and astronomical cuneiform texts
- Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHERE & ERC SAW)
Procedures in Late Babylonian mathematical texts from Uruk: conversions, arithmetical and geometrical progressions.
- Mathieu Ossendrijver (Berlin Humboldt University, Topoi, invited by the ERC SAW)
Babylonian astronomy
and mathematics: two disciplines, one methodology?
, 9:30 – 17:00, Room Mondrian, 646A
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
:: Operations & Objects
Session organised by Emmylou Haffner (SPHERE)
- Frédéric Jaëck (Univ. Paris Diderot)
Some examples of the use of the word ’operation’ in the shaping of functional analysis. [talk in French]
- Catherine Morice-Singh (Univ. Paris 3 et SPHERE)
Operations and classification of numbers in ancient texts of the Jaina tradition (India - before the 10th century A.D.) [Talk in French]
- David Rabouin (CNRS, SPHERE)
Operations and Numbers in John Wallis’s works. [Talk in English]
, 17:00 – 19:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
History and
History and Philosophy of Physics
- Sean Johnston (Univ. of Glasgow)
Amateur physics in America : Fostering technical hobbies, 1920-70.
, 17:00 – 20:00, Room 888C, 8e étage, Building C des Grands Moulins
Conceptualizing Human Diversity : history, science and philosophy
:: Human diversity in scholastic thought
- Maaike Van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot/ ICT)
Unicité du genre humain et le statut des naissances monstrueuses dans la pensée scolastique (XII-XIVe siècles).
- Jean-Claude Laborie (Univ. Paris Ouest-Nanterre)
De l’école de Salamanque à José d’Acosta, monogénisme et colonisation, l’histoire d’un compromis.
, 14:30 – 17:30, Room Rothko, 412B
History of Light
:: Spectroscopie instrumentale
- Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS-CNRS-MNHN)
Les métrologies interférométriques.
- Myles Jackson (Albert Gallatin Research, New York University)
Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Communicability of Artisanal Knowledge.
, 17:00-19:00, salle 312A
Talk of Douglas Jesseph (University of South Florida): "Hobbes on the Limits of Rationality"
Organisation : Justin Smith (Univ. Paris Diderot & SPHERE).
, 9:30 – 12:30, Room Kandinsky, 631B
.Arabic. Mathematics & Mathematics in the Renaissance
- Philippe Abgrall (CNRS, CEPERC)
L’usage de la trigonométrie sphérique pour le tracé de l’astrolabe par Ibn ‘Irāq.
, 9:30-17:30, Room Mondrian, 646A
Workshop SAW "Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral Sciences"
:: Instruments: Mathematical Practices with Instruments in the Astral Sciences
- Sho Hirose (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE and ERC SAW), Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & ERC SAW) & Clemency Montelle (Univ. Canterbury, N.-Z., invited researcher by the ERC SAW)
Comparing a corpus of commentarial texts on Armillary Spheres: Bhāskara, Pṛthūdhaka, Amarāja, Parameśvara.
- Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & SAW Project)
John of Lignières’ instruments of the 1322 tables and their comments by John of Saxony.
Friday 13
, 13:00 – 17:00, Room 9, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, Paris 6e.Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach.
- 13:00–15:00 : Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute, Londres)
Imagination and the experience of dreaming in the 16th century.
- 15:00–17:00 : Pascal Sévérac (UPEC)
Vices et vertus de l’imagination selon Spinoza.
, Paris I, Centre Antique et médiéval
Seminar of Translation of the Elements of Theology, Proclus
Friday 13 & Saturday 14
History of Ancient Philosophy: Physics and Logic. Natural Philosophy and Theory of Science in Aristoteles
:: Définition et division (I)
Friday 14:30–17:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
- Robert Bolton (University of North Carolina)
Division and the Way to Principles in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics II.19.
- Andrea L. Carbone (Gramata, Univ. Paris 1)
Topique et topologie de la division dans la biologie aristotélicienne.
samedi 10:00–12:30,
Room Halbwachs, sec C, 1er étage, Université Paris 1-Sorbonne Panthéon, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris
- Annick Jaulin (Univ. Paris I, SPHERE)
Pourquoi Socrate le Jeune a-t-il tort ?
- Laura Castelli (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy)
Topics, Analytics and Physics: theory and practice of philosophical argumentation in Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias.
, 18:00, Amphi 1, Building Olympe de Gouges
Session of Inauguration of the GDR Philosophy of Mathematics
Presentation of the GDR. Lecture: Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon University)
Reductive Structuralism.
, 9:00 – 13:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
Exploratory Workshop: Astral sciences, Mathematics and Rituals: 2015
Exploratory Workshop organised in the context of the ERC Project SAW ‘‘Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World”, organised by Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project), Sho Hirose (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE & SAW), Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project) & Daniel P. Morgan (ERC SAW, SPHERE).
Lecturers:
- Setsuro Ikeyama (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan), Bill Mak (Kyoto University, Japan), Michio Yano (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan) & Zhu Yiwen (Sun Yatsen University, China)
Presentation and programme on the webpage of the conference.
Friday 20
, 10:00 – 13:00, Centre AntiqueSeminar of translation The Aristotle Metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias
Translation of texts of Commentary to Book Delta.
Friday 20
, 14:00 – 18:00, Room 204, Building Olympe de GougesThinking / classifying technical collections
:: Extra-european collections
- Mau Chuan Hui (Université Tsing Hua, Taïwan)
Les recherches en Chine sur l’industrie textile et les collections chinoises.
- Habiba Aoudia (EHESS-IRIS)
Nommer les ’arts indigènes’ d’Afrique du Nord : statut de l’objet et catégories muséales.
, 16:00 – 19:00, room Cassini, Observatoire de Paris, 77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau 75014
La relativité générale, cent ans après...
Organisation : Olivier Darrigol (CNRS, SPHERE) & Jean Eisenstaedt (CNRS, SYRTE)
- Diana Kormos-Buchwald (Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)
Einstein dans les années 1920 : ses écrits, ses lettres, et ses autres projets d’avenir. [en anglais]
- Jean Eisenstaedt (Observatoire de Paris)
Aux racines du renouveau de la relativité générale, les trous noirs.
- Jürgen Renn (Max Plank Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin)
Relativité générale : le renouveau.
, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Mondrian, 646A
Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk: 2015
Conference co-organized by Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project) & John Steele (Brown University, USA, invited researcher by the ERC SAW), with support of the ERC Project SAW ‘‘Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World” and of the Department of Egyptology & Assyriology of Brown University.
Lecturers:
- Paul-Alain Beaulieu (University of Toronto), Philippe Clancier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne),
Hermann Hunger (University of Vienna), Alexander Jones (New York University), Julia Krul (Leiden University), Mathieu Ossendrijver (Humboldt University),
Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project), John Steele (Brown University).
Presentation and programme on the webpage of the conference.
, 9:30 – 12:00, Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
- David Rowe (Gutenberg Univ., Mayence)
On Visualizing Quartic Surfaces in the 1860s.
Tuesday 24
, 17:00 – 19:00, Room Malevitch, 483AHistory and Philosophy of Physics
- Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universität Berlin)
The role of replicability of scientific experiments: a historical view.
, 14:30 – 17:30, Room Rothko, 412B
History of Light
:: La théorie des couleurs (I)
- Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universität Berlin)
The debates on color in the 18th century.
- Arnaud Mayrargue (CNRS & SPHERE)
L’aberration stellaire et la nature ondulatoire de la lumière.
Abstracts online.
, 9:30–13:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age
:: Réception et non-réception de Ptolémée au XIIe et XIIIe siècles
Organisation: Barbara Obrist (CNRS, SPHERE)
- Dirk Grupe (Munich)
Ptolemaic and non-Ptolemaic elements in Stephen of Antioch’s Liber Mamonis (mid-twelfth-c.).
- Patrick Gautier Dalché (CNRS, Paris)
La connaissance de la Géographie de Ptolémée dans l’Occident latin (12e-13e siècles).
- Irene Caiazzo (CNRS, Paris)
Martianus Capella et Ptolémée à la Faculté des Arts (première moitié du XIIIe s.).
- Shlomo Sela (Bar Ilan University)
The Hebrew Farghānī and the Medieval Reception of the 48 Ptolemaic Constellations: A Newly Discovered Text in Hebrew Translation.
Thursday 26
, 14:00 – 18:00, Room Mondrian, 646ADeep brain stimulation and the History of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases
- Jean-Gaël Barbara (SPHERE)
La dégénérescence nerveuse au XIXe siècle et le concept de maladie dégénérative..
- Laura Bossi-Régnier (SPHERE)
Les modèles de la neurodégénérescence.
26-27-28 & 30-31 mars, 9:30 – 17:30
, Room Klimt, 366A!! attention !! pour l’accès au bâtiment Condorcet le samedi 28, prière de vous signaler auprès de Sarah Diemu-Témolières : saw.ercproject [ at ] gmail.com>
Mathematical Practices in relation to the Astral Sciences: 2015
Conference organised by Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project), Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & SAW Project), Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project), Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project) & the group SAW, in the context of the ERC Project SAW ‘‘Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World”.
Lecturers:
Karine Chemla, Chen Zhihui (CNRS, SAW Project), Sho Hirose (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE & SAW Project), Hermann Hunger (University of Vienna, Austria), Matthieu Husson, Setsuro Ikeyama (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan), Alexander Jones (New York University, USA), Agathe Keller, Li Liang (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Taro Mimura (University of Manchester, UK), Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Daniel P. Morgan (CNRS & SAW Project), Mathieu Ossendrijver (Humboldt University, Germany), Steve Shnider (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Nathan Sidoli (Waseda University, Japan), John Steele (Brown University, USA), Glenn Van Brummelen (Quest University, Canada), Wang Xiaohu (School of Public Administration, South China Normal University, China), Michio Yano (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan), Zhu Yiwen (Sun Yatsen University, China).
Presentation and programme on the webpage of the seminar.
Friday 27
, 14:00 – 18:00, amphi 1, Building Olympe de GougesMeetings HPS of Paris Diderot
L’économie morale des sciences modernes. Jugements, émotions et valeurs*.
Ouvrage de Lorraine Daston présenté par le traducteur et commentateur : Stéphane van
Damme (Sciences Po) (tbc).
* La Découverte, 2014
Friday 27
, 15:00 – 17:00 , Room Malevitch, 483AAverroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Cristina Cerami (CNRS, SPHERE)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 4.
Monday 30
, 9:30 – 12:00, Room Mondrian, 646APhilosophical perspectives on the relationship between physics and mathematics
Organisation : Gabriel Catren (CNRS, SPHERE, projet ERC Philosophie de la Gravitation quantique canonique).
- 09:15
Welcome - 9:30 - 11:00 J.-J. Szczeciniarz (Directeur du Département Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences, Université Paris Diderot).
À propos d’analyses d’Albert Lautman portant sur les relations entre mathématiques et physique mathématique. - 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
- 11:15 - 12:45 Elie During (IREPH - Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre).
Uniformité et contingence : Bergson, Whitehead et la très raisonnable efficacité des mathématiques. - 14:30 - 16:00 David Rabouin (SPHERE, CNRS).
Cent et mille visages. Quelle philosophie pour quel espace ? - 16:15 - 17:45
Jean Petitot (Centre d’Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales (CAMS), EHESS - CNRS)
Analyse conceptuelle et synthèse computationnelle en physique mathématique.
Tuesday 31
, 9:30 – 12:00, Room Rothko, 412BMathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
David Rowe (Gutenberg Univ., Mayence)
On the Early Works of Klein and Lie, 1869-1872.
Tuesday 31
, 17:00 – 20:00, Room 888C, 8e étage, Building C des Grands MoulinsConceptualizing Human Diversity : history, science and philosophy
- Nélia Dias (Univ. de Lisbonne)
La préservation de la biodiversité comme valeur.
July 2015, May 2015, April 2015, March 2015, January 2015, December 2014, November 2014, October 2014
FEBRUARY 2015
Programme to download. Dates : 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 16, 19, 20, 26
Thursday 5 , 10:00 – 13:00, Room Gris, 734A
PHD Students: Working group in History and philosophy of physics
- Michel Paty (CNRS, SPHERE)
Sur le rôle de la pensée mathématique dans l’élaboration des théories physiques.
Thursday 5 February 2015
, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Mondrian, 646AHistory of Science, History of Text
Working Group "How do Writings in the astral sciences document mathematical practices and the practitioners?" (2/3), organised by Matthieu Husson, Rich Kremer, with the SAW Group (projet ERC SAW ‘Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World’)
- 9:30–11:30 : Daniel Patrick Morgan (ERC SAW, SPHERE)
Sphere Confusion: The Textual Reconstruction of First-millennium hun Instruments.
- 11:45–13:00 & 14:15–15:00 : Sho Hirose (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE and ERC SAW)
What were the functions of the armillary sphere in Paramesvara’s Goladīpikā?
- 15:15–17:15 : Nathan Sidoli (Wasada University, Tokyo, invited by the ERC SAW)
The use of physical devices to do computation. Selections from Ptolemy’s Analemma, and Heron’s Dioptra 35.
, Room Cavaillès, stairs C, level 1, University Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, 17, rue de la Sorbonne, 75005. Access.
Seminar of Arabic Philosophy
PhDs Students Workshop : Al-Farabi’s Philosophy
Friday 6
- 16:00 Welcome & presentation : Jean-Baptiste Brenet (Univ. Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, SPHERE), David Wirmer (Univ. zu Köln)
- 16:10 Lars Reuke (Köln)
Al-Fārābī’s Parallelism of the Cosmos, the Soul, and the Political Sphere.
16:40 Discussion
- 16:50 Giulia Lelli (Paris)
Dialectics in The Philosophy of Aristotle.
17:20 Discussion
- 17:30 Lucie Tardy (Paris)
The Status of Imitation in the Purchase of Essences in al-Fārābī’s Kitāb taḥṣīl al-sa‛āda : a Comparison with Plato’s divided Line.
18:00–18:10 Discussion
- 10:00 Sissi Grasser (Köln)
Al-Fārābī on Intellect in his Philosophy of Aristotle.
10:30 Discussion
- 10:40 Ivan Bouchardeau (Paris)
Governing by Images in al- Fārābī’s Political Works.
11:10 Discussion
- 11:20 Jonas van Treeck (Köln)
Al-Fârâbî’s Treatise on Vacuum.
11:50–12:00 Discussion
, Paris I, Centre Antique et médiéval
Seminar of Translation of the Elements of Theology, Proclus
, 9:30 – 17:00, Room Mondrian, 646A
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Session prepared with the ERC Project SAW "Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World"
1rst part, follow-up to "On the methods of approximation and on questions of discretization" (December 15, 2014).
Session prepared with the ERC Project SAW "Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World" organised by Christine Proust, Maarten Bullynck and Marie-José Durand-Richard (SPHERE).
- 9:30-10:45 Nadine de Courtenay (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
The gift of mistaking. Approximation and uncertainty as modalities of the mathematical translation of physical phenomena. (in English)
2 nd part, 11:00–17:00, Mathematics, Astral science and Trigonometry.
Session prepared with the ERC Project SAW "Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World" organised by Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & ERC Project SAW)
- 11:00-12:15 Clemency Montelle (Un. Canterbury, N.-Z., and researcher invited by the ERC SAW project)
Some reflections on trigonometry in the Sanskrit astral sciences. (in English)
- 12:30-13:15 / 14:15–14:45 Nathan Sidoli
(Waseda University, Japan, and researcher invited by the ERC SAW project)
Episodes in Greek Trigonometry. (in English)
- 15:00-16:30 Philippe Abgrall (CNRS, CEPERC)
Le recours au théorème des sinus pour résoudre certains problèmes liés à l’astrolabe, par Ibn ‘Irāq. (talk in French, documents in English)
Monday 9
, 10:00 – 12:30, Room Rothko, 412BHistory of Logic
:: Four reformer logicians (4/4)
- Paul Thom (The University of Sydney)
The critiques and developments of Aristotelian logic proposed by Leibniz, Ploucquet and Hegel: an exposition and examination of some recent interpretations.
, 9:30 – 12:00, Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
Sylvain Cabanacq (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Introduction aux structures o-minimales : quelques résultats fondamentaux.
, 9:30 – 12:30, Room Kandinsky, 631B
.Arabic. Mathematics & Mathematics in the Renaissance
- Eleonora Sammarchi (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Exemples de problèmes d’analyse indéterminée.
- Sophie Couteaud (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Méthodes pour trouver des nombres particuliers : congruents, diamétraux…
Friday 13
, 9:30-17:30, Room Malevitch, 483AWorkshop SAW "Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral Sciences"
:: Mathematical reasonings in the astral sciences (2/3): Reasonings in Chinese and Latin texts
- Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE & ERC SAW)
Mathematical reasoning in early writings on astral sciences.
- Chen Zhihui (SAW Project)
Calculating Ancient Chronology by Ancient Astral-mathematical Methods: Mid-Qing (Late 18th and Early 19th Century) Scholars’ Studies on the Chronology of Confucian Classics.
- Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & SAW Project) & Rich Kremer (Darmouth College, USA)
Conjunction problems in John of Murs’s Quadripartitum numerorum and syzygy computations.
Friday 13
, 10:00 – 13:00, Bibliothèque SorbonneSeminar of translation The Aristotle Metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias
Translation of texts of Commentary to Book Gamma.
Friday 13
, 13:00 – 17:00, Room 10, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, Paris 6e.Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach.
- 13:00–15:00 : Koen Vermeir (CNRS, SPHERE)
La force de l’imagination chez Francis Bacon.
- 15:00–17:00 : Saverio Ansaldi (Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne)
Giordano Bruno et l’imagination.
Friday 13
, 14:00 – 18:00, Room 204, Building Olympe de GougesThinking / classifying technical collections
:: Les classifications des instruments scientifiques
- Armelle Legoff (Archives nationales)
Présentation du livre : Bertrand Daugeron et Armelle Leggof dir., Penser/
classer/administrer. Pour une histoire croisée des collections, Paris, CTHS / MNHN, 2014.
- Alexi Baker (CRASSH & History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
Instruments of early modern London: urban manufacture, transnational use, and modern (mis)representation.
Friday 13
, 14:00 – 18:00, Room Mondrian, 646ADeep brain stimulation and the History of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases
- Jean-Claude Dupont (SPHERE)
La maladie de Parkinson : histoire pathogénique et thérapeutique.
- Céline Cherici (SPHERE)
Stimulation cérébrale profonde et psychiatrie : les troubles obsessionnels compulsifs..
Friday 13
, !! exceptionnally 16:00 – 18:00 !!, Room Rothko, 412BAverroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Cristina Cerami (CNRS, SPHERE)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 4.
, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Gris, 734A
"La montée vers l’absolu" galoisien(ne), de Platon à Lawvere
Talk: Julien Page (CNRS, ERC Project PhiloquantumGravity), in the context of the ERC Project PhiloQuantumGravity.
, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Mondrian, 646A
History of Science, History of Text
Working Group "How do Writings in the astral sciences document mathematical practices and the practitioners?" (3/3), organised by Matthieu Husson, Rich Kremer, with the SAW Group (ERC Project SAW ‘Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World’)
- 9:30–11:30 : Li Liang (Beijing Institute for the History of Natural Science, invited by the ERC SAW)
Procedural table as a tool : The calculations in Chinese calendric astronomy.
- 11:45–13:00 & 14:15–15:00 : Mathieu Ossendrijver (Berlin Humboldt University, Topoi, invited by the ERC SAW)
Astronomical tables of the spread sheet type.
- 15:15–17:15 : Matthias Hayek (CRCAO, Université Paris Diderot)
Rotating Disks and Straight Rulers: Paper Instruments in Japanese Early Modern Divination Manuals.
, 9:30-17:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
Workshop SAW "Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral Sciences"
:: Mathematical reasonings in the astral sciences (3/3): Reasonings in mathematical and astronomical cuneiform texts
- Mathieu Ossendrijver (Berlin Humboldt University, Topoi, invited by the ERC SAW)
Mathematical reasoning in the Saros Text (BM 36705+).
- Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Rule of three in Late Babylonian mathematical texts: regular / non regular numbers, reciprocals and approximation.
- Pierre Chaigneau (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Neugebauer’s extrapolations from the notation of numbers in astronomical cuneiform texts of the Seleucid period and its consequences (short talk).
Friday 20
, 14:00 – 18:00, amphi 1, Building Olympe de GougesMeetings HPS of Paris Diderot
Nature, human nature, and human difference : Race in early modern philosophy*.
Publication presented by the author: Justin Smith (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE).
* Princeton University Press, under press
, 10:00 – 13:00, Room Gris, 734A
PHD Students: Working group in History and philosophy of physics
- Eric Brizay (SPHERE)
Évolution des principes de la mécanique entre 1750 et 1850, en France
et en Angleterre.
July 2015, May 2015, April 2015, March 2015, February 2015, December 2014, November 2014, October 2014
JANUARY 2015
Programme to download (english version starts at p. 5).
Dates : 7, 8-9, 12, 15, 16, 20, 23, 27, 30-31
Monday January 5 2015, 9:30-17:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
Workshop SAW "Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral Sciences"
Organisation : Karine Chemla, (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project), Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & SAW Project), Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project), Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project) et le groupe SAW
:: Numbers, quantities, measuring units and operation (1/3): Numbers versus quantities
and sexagesimal place value notation versus decimal notation
- John Steele (Brown University, USA)
Description, Calculation, Measurement: Different Uses of Numbers
and Quantities in Babylonian Astronomy.
- Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Contrasts and correspondences between different kinds of numbers and quantities: metrological tables from Late Babylonian Nippur and Uruk.
- Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & SAW Project)
Remarks on mean motion computations and fixed sexagesimal place value notation. (Short talk).
Wednesday 7, 2015
, 9:00, Room 2012, Building Sophie GermainED400: Workshop of January 7, 2015
Organisation: Karine Chemla, (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW), Sandrine Pellé (LDAR).
- 9:00 – 10:50 The representatives of the different laboratories composing the Ph.D School will introduce themselves. Various informations by our secretary, Sandrine Pellé. A word by our director, Karine Chemla. Then Justin Smith (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE) will present a project of training in "scientific english".
- 11 :10 – 13 :00 Some recently promoted researcher will come back on their Ph.D time and on their career after the defense. Then, as a conclusion to this event, you will be free to exchange individually with each one of them.
Thursday & Friday 8 & 9
, 9:15, Room Luc Valentin, 454AHealth -risk environments - knowledge, responsibilities and agentivity
Conception & organisation: Marie Gaille, with help of Patricia Philippe & Laurent Lemoine, (CNRS, SPHERE), in the context of the PEPS Project Qualenv.
Programme.
Scientific Comittee: Philippe Bizouarn, Nathalie Blanc, Laura Centemeri, Valérie Chansigaud, Marie Gaille, Christophe Imbert, Joël Coste. Artistic environment: Juliette-Andréa Elie
Speakers: Sylvie Ollitrault (CNRS, CRAPE), Mathias Girel (ENS), Benjamin Lysianuk (CNRS, PRODIG), Francelyne Marano (Univ. paris Diderot), Philippe Bizouarn (SPHERE), Joël Coste (Hopital Cochin), Frédérique Dreifuss-Netter, Isabelle Vacarie (Univ. Paris Ouest Nanterre), Laura Centemeri (CNRS, IMM), Catherine Larrère (Univ. Paris 1), Jean-Paul Thibaud (CNRS, CRESSON), Perrine Michon (Univ. Paris Est Créteil), David Blanchon (Univ. Paris Ouest Nanterre), João Arriscado Nunes (Univ. de Coimbra), Florence Bretelle-Establet (CNRS, SPHERE), Nathalie Blanc (CNRS, LADYSS)
Friday 9
, 10:00 – 13:00, Centre antique, University Paris 1The Aristotle Metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias
Translation of extracts of the Commentary to Book Beta
, 9:30 – 17:00, Room Mondrian, 646A
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
:: The evolution of mathematical proofs as choices by their authors
Session in english organised by Eleonora Sammarchi (University Paris Diderot, SPHERE).
- Eleonora Sammarchi
Short reminder on thought elements ht raised last year concerning "new demonstrations" of the resolution algorithms quadratic equations.
- Xiaofei Wang (University Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
The demonstrations in a purely analytic way of Lagrange.
- Alberto Cogliati (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Algebra vs Geometry in the domain of mathematical proof : a case study from the theory of Lie groups.
- Marion Cousin (SPHERE)
Mathematical Proof in American and English Textbooks on Elementary Geometry during the second part of XIXth century, and its Introduction in Japanese Education during Meiji Era (1868-1912).
Monday 12
, 10:00 – 12:30, Room Rothko, 412BHistory of Logic
:: Four reformer logicians (suite 2 & 3/4)
- Paul Thom (The University of Sydney)
Ockham’s critique of his realist predecessors, including Kilwardby, on the categories, propositional forms, the syllogism. Nominalism in logic. Ockham’s programme of ‘exposition’ as a method of extending the reach of Aristotelian logic.Ockham and Buridan. The theological context.
The Logique de Port-Royal and its critique of scholasticism on the categories, propositional forms and the syllogism. Psychologism in logic. Non-formal logic. Methodology.
, 10:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age
:: Recent research on the Prior Analytics and its Greek, Arabic and Latin
reception
Workshop organised by Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, SPHERE) & Paul Thom (The University of Sydney)
- 10:00–11:00 : Michel Crubellier (Université Lille3)
A Plea for the dictum de omni.
- 11:00–12:00 : Luca Gili (K. U. Leuven)
Alexander of Aphrodisias and the heterodox dictum de omni et de nullo.
- 14:00–15:00 : Riccardo Strobino (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum /Univ. of Cambridge)
Avicenna on Absolute and Necessity Propositions in Prior and Posterior Analytics.
- 15:00–16:00 : Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Univ. of Gothenburg)
Some comments on the Anonymus Aurelianensis III.
- 16:00–17:00 : Paul Thom (Univ. of Sydney)
Robert Kilwardby’s contribution to the interpretation of the Prior Analytics.
Thursday 15
, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Mondrian, 646AHistory of Science, History of Text
Working Group "How do Writings in the astral sciences document mathematical practices
and the practitioners?", organised by Matthieu Husson, Rich Kremer, avec le groupe SAW (ERC Project SAW ‘Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World’), Session 1/3
- 9:30–11:30 : Sebastian Falk (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge)
Amateur astronomers learning with tables : the case of the Equatorie of the Planetis.
- 11:45–13:00 & 14:15–15:00 : Matthieu Husson (CNRS-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris and SAW project)
John of Murs’ eclipse computation in the Escorial O II 10.
- 15:15–17:15 : Richard Kremer (Darmouth College and researcher invited by the SAW project)
Dialing, geometry and proof in early 16th-century Europe: Stabius’s paper instruments.
, 9:30-17:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
Workshop SAW "Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral Sciences"
:: Numbers, quantities, measuring units and operation (2/3): Measurement units and magnitudes
- John Steele (Brown University, USA)
Numbers and Units in Babylonian astronomy: The Case of the Rising Time Schemes and the Ziqpu-Star Texts.
- Sho Hirose (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Units to measure the arcs of orbits. Bhāskara’s commentary on verse 13 of the third chapter of the Aryabhaṭīya.
- Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Various types of numbers, various types of approximations in early Chinese writings on mathematics and astral sciences. (Short talk).
Friday 16
, 15:00 – 17:00, Room Rothko, 412BAverroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Cristina Cerami (CNRS, SPHERE)
Revision of the translation of CMDC I, 4.
Friday 16
, Paris I, Centre Antique & médiévalSeminar of Translation of the Elements of Theology, Proclus
, 17:00 – 19:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
History and Philosophy of Physics
- Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
The genesis of general relativity from philosophy to cosmology.
, 9:30-17:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
Workshop SAW "Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral Sciences"
:: Numbers, quantities, measuring units and operation (3/3): Different types of operations
- Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project) & Daniel P. Morgan (SAW Project, CNRS)
The production of integers and mathematical operations in writings on astral sciences in ancient China.
- Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & SAW Project)
Operations on sexagesimal fractions described inside and outside astronomical texts: a comparison.
- Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Pṛthūdhaka’s commentary on Brahmagupta’s rules on operations with sexagesimal numbers or measuring units. (BSS.12.62-65).
Friday 23
, 13:00 – 17:00, Room 10, EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, Paris 6e.Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach
- 13:00–15:00: Philippe Hamou (Nanterre/CNRS/MPIWG Berlin)
« Le cheval échappé ». Montaigne et les enfantements fantasques de l’esprit.
- 15:00–17:00: Roberto Poma (UPEC)
Imagination & douleur, de Marsile Ficin à Thomas Willis.
Friday 23
, 14:00 – 18:00, Room 126, Building Olympe de GougesThinking / classifying technical collections
:: Les arts décoratifs
- Céline Trautmann-Waller (University Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3-CEREG)
Collectionner & exposer les tapis d’Orient à Vienne à la fin du XIXe siècle: entre histoire des techniques, théorie de l’ornementation & promotion des arts décoratifs.
- Rossella Froissart (UMR 7303-TELEMME Aix-Marseille University)
L’ornementation usuelle (1866-1868) de Rodoplhe Pfnor: questions de styles à la portée des ouvriers d’art.
- Audrey Millet (University Lille III - UMR 8533, CNRS, IDHES)
Dessinateur-collectionneur en manufacture: dessins, livres & échantillons comme supports des techniques (XVIIIe–XIXe siècles).
, 9:30 – 12:00, Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
Session on methodology prepared by Samson Duran (GHDSO, Paris-Sud) & Simon Decaens (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE), with participation of Laurent Rollet (Archives Poincaré, University of Lorraine)
Sur les méthodes quantitatives en histoire des mathématiques.
A free discussion will succeed with Laurent Rollet (Archives Poincaré, univ. de Lorraine) on interrogations in research works.
, 9:30-17:30, Room Mondrian, 646A
Workshop SAW "Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral Sciences"
:: Mathematical reasonings in the astral sciences (1/3): Reasonings in Sanskrit astronomical texts
- Sho Hirose (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Reasonings in the Goladīpikā of Parameśvara.
- Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW Project)
Reasonings in Pṛthūdhaka’s commentaries on Brahmagupta.
- Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Exploring the reasonings of Amarāja in commentaries on Brahmagupta.
Friday 30 & Saturday 31
Ancient Philosophy: Physics and Logic. Natural Philosophy and Theory of Science in Aristoteles
:: Analogie & ressemblance (II)
Friday 14:30–17:00,
room Malevitch, 483A
- Mariska Leunissen (University of North Carolina)
Analogy, Resemblance, and Signs : Physiognomical Science in Aristotle.
- Thomas Auffret (Gramata, Univ. Paris 1)
Remarques sur l’usage philosophique de l’analogie, d’Hippias à Eudoxe.
Saturday 10:00–12:30,
room Halbwachs, sec C, level 1, University Paris 1-Sorbonne Panthéon, 17 rue de la Sorbonne
- Marwan Rashed (ENS)
Analogie, hétérogénéité, multiplicité.
- Riccardo Chiaradonna (Universia di Roma 3)
Plotin critique de l’analogie chez Aristote.
July 2015, May 2015, April 2015, March 2015, February 2015, January 2015, November 2014, October 2014
DECEMBER 2014
Programme to download. Dates : 1-4, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 19
Monday 1rst – Thursday 4, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Klimt, 366A
Workshop History of Critical Editions
Organizers : Agathe Keller, Karine Chemla, Christine Proust et l’équipe SAW.
Speakers: Zhu Yiwen (Institute of Logic and Cognition & Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou) & Zheng Cheng (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing), Jerrold Cooper (Johns Hopkins University), Micheline Decorps-Foulquier (Université de Clermont-Ferrand, SPHERE), Alessandro Graheli (University of Vienna), Agathe Keller (SAW ERC Project, SPHERE), Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan),
Mathieu Ossendrijver (Humboldt University), Karin Preisendanz (University of Vienna),
Christine Proust (SAW ERC Project, SPHERE), Han Qi (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences),
George Vlahakis (Hellenic Open University)
, 17:00 – 19:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
History and philosophy of physics
- Alfred Nordman (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Grasping the infinite: Cassirer, Heidegger, Friedman and the quest for frictionless gliding.
, 10:00 – 13:00, Room Gris, 734A
PHD Students: Working group in history and philosophy of physics
- Vincent Ardourel (Univ. Lille 1)
La représentation du temps en mécanique discrète.
, 14:00 – 16:00, Amphithéâtre 1, bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
HPS Meetings of Paris Diderot
- Le médicament qui devait sauver l’Afrique*.
Book introduced by the author: Guillaume Lachenal (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE).
* Oxford University Press, 2014
, 10:00 – 12:30, Room Rothko, 412B
History of Logic
:: Four reformer logicians (suite de 1 et 2/4)
- Paul Thom (The University of Sydney)
Avicenna’s break with Aristotle’s logic. The theory of the categories. Propositional forms. Definitions of the syllogism. Modal syllogistic. Hypothetical syllogistic. Averroes’ reaction against Avicenna’s reforms.
Ockham’s critique of his realist predecessors, including Kilwardby,
on the categories, propositional forms, the syllogism. Nominalism in logic.
Ockham’s programme of ‘exposition’ as a method of extending the reach
of Aristotelian logic.Ockham and Buridan. The theological context.
, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Kandinsky, 631B
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (ERC Philosophie de la Gravitation Quantique Canonique, CNRS)
Towards Symplectic Stacks (5/6).
Tuesday 9
, 17:00 – 19:00, Room Malevitch, 483AHistory and philosophy of physics
- Alexei Grinbaum (CEA-Saclay, SPEC/LARSIM)
Reconstruire la théorie quantique à partir des axiomes.
, 9:00, locations : see details
Workshop Hermann Weyl and the philosophy of the ’new physics’
International Workshop organised by Gabriel Catren and Silvia De Bianchi in the context of the ERC Project PhiloQuantumGravity, with the support of the Evert Willem Beth Foundation and of European Research
Council (European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme —FP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement N° 263523, ERC Project PhiloQuantumGravity)..
- Speakers: John L Bell (Western University – Ontario), Julien Bernard (Zukunftskolleg – Konstanz), Silvia De Bianchi (Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona), Gabriel Catren (CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot and ERC Project PhiloQuantumGravity), Christophe Eckes (Université de Nancy), Jeremy Gray (Open University – London), Carlos Lobo (Collège International de Philosophie – Paris), Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University), Erhard Scholz (Wuppertal University), Norman Sieroka (ETH Zürich).
Programme and Abstracts to download.
Wednesday 10
, 14:30 – 17:30, Room Rothko, 412BHistory of Light
:: Spectrométrie et Polarisation
Abstracts avalilable on the webpage of the seminar.
Download the 2014–2015 programme.
- Danielle Fauque (GHDSO-EST, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay) :
L’apport d’une technique nouvelle à la connaissance de la matière dans la seconde moitié du xixe siècle : la spectroscopie. - Frédéric Leclercq (UMR Savoirs, textes, langage, Université Lille 3) :
Opposition des pratiques de Biot et de Fresnel lors des études sur la polarisation
de la lumière.
, 17:00 – 19:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age
:: L’héritage de Nicomaque dans les mathématiques
Workshop organised by Eleonora Sammarchi (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE) and Matthieu Husson (SYRTE, SPHERE)
- 9:30–10:30 Gerhald Bechtle (Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität Bern)
Les fils rouges
dans le De communi mathematica scientia de Jamblique - tentative de dégager la théorie jambliquéenne des mathématiques à travers les thèmes récurrents de ce traité.
- 10:30–11:30 Pascal Crozet (CNRS, SPHERE)
Avicenne et la théorie des nombres.
- 12:00–13:00 David Rabouin (CNRS, SPHERE)
Traces de l’arithmétique figurée avant et chez Descartes.
- 14:30-15:30 Mathieu Husson
Autour de trois versions du De institutione arithmetica de Boèce dans l’œuvre de Jean de Murs.
- 15:30-17:00 Table ronde : Gerald Becthle, Pascal Crozet, Matthieu Husson, Bernard Vitrac.
Thursday 11
, 10:00 – 13:00, Room Rothko, 412BMathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
:: On Moritz Pasch (1/2)
- Dirk Schlimm (MacGill University)
Pasch’s empiricist philosophy of mathematics.
Friday et Saturday 12 – 13,
, 9:00, Halles aux Farines, room 275F (Fri.), 479F (Sat.)Embodiment. Corps, Corporéité & Incorporation dans l ’Histoire de la Philosophie, de la Médecine & de la Théologie
International Workshop organised by Justin E. H. Smith (University Paris Diderot, SPHERE),
with generous support of the Departement of History & Philosophy of Science of the University Paris Diderot, of the Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR7219) and of theInstitute of the Humanities in Paris.
- Speakers: Brooke Holmes (Princeton University), Rafael Nájera (Brown University),
Justin E. H. Smith, Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College), Alison Peterman (University
of Rochester), Philippe Huneman (IHPST), Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent University),
Helen Lang (Villanova University), Sarah Byers (Boston College),
Lesley-Anne Dyer (Baylor University), Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University).
Friday and Saturday 12 – 13,
, 9:00, Room Malevitch, 483AFinding a Path through the Woods : analyzing Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
INternational workshop organized by Koen Vermeir (CNRS, SPHERE),
with the support of the Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR7219).
- Speakers: Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest), Dana Jalobeanu, Silvia Manzo (National University of La Plata), Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin), Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest),
Koen Vermeir (CNRS, SPHERE)
, 9:30 – 12:30, Room Kandinsky, 631B
"Arabic" Mathematics and Mathematics in the Renaissance
- Odile Kouteynikoff (SPHERE)
Entre le xe siècle arabe et la Renaissance occidentale :
le Liber Quadratorum de Fibonacci.
Friday 12
, 13:00 – 15:00, Room Rothko, 412 BStriving for Coherence: Readings in Averroes’ Incoherence of the Incoherence
- David Wirmer (Univ. Köln)
Intellect in Averroes’ Tahâfut.
Friday 12
, 15:00 – 17:00, Room Rothko, 412BAverroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Cristina Cerami (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 3-4.
, 14:00 – 18:00, Room 126, Building Olympe de Gouges
Thinking / classifying technical collections
:: Technicité des collections : gestion, mediation, restauration.
- Dominique Vandecasteele and Rémi Catillon (Musée des arts et métiers)
Comprendre, conserver et restaurer le patrimoine scientifique et technique dans un musée. - Soline Morinière (DRAC Alsace, Service régional de l’Archéologie)
Comprendre une collection de moulages : quels outils pour l’enseignement
de l’histoire de l’art ?
Friday 12
, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Mondrian, 646APhilosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (ERC PhiloQuantumGravity, CNRS)
Towards Symplectic Stacks (6/6).
Friday 12
, Paris I, Centre Antique et médiévalSeminar of Translation of the Elements of Theology, Proclus
Friday 12
, Room Rothko, 412BStriving for Coherence: Readings in Averroes’ Incoherence of the Incoherence
- David Wirmer (Univ. Köln)
Intellect in Averroes’ Tahâfut.
, 9:30 – 13:00, Room Mondrian, 646A
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
:: Méthodes d’approximation et des questions de discrétisation.
Séance organisée par Christine Proust, Maarten Bullynck & Marie-José Durand-Richard, in the context of the ERC Project SAW ‘Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World’.
- Nadine De Courtenay (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Le don de la méprise. L’approximation et l’incertitude comme modalités de la traduction mathématique des phénomènes physiques. - Maarten Bullynck (Univ. Paris 8 et SPHERE) et Marie-José Durand-Richard (SPHERE)
Douglas R. Hartree (1891-1958) : les méthodes d’approximation à l’épreuve de l’ordinateur.
Friday 19, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
SAW seminar: Mathematical practices in the context of the astral science
:: Astral sciences in context 2 : Astrology and horoscope related computation
- Hermann Hunger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Numerical schemes in Babylonian astrology. - Anne Tihon (Université Catholique de Louvain)
An astronomical syntax, based on Hipparchus : the Papyrus
Fouad inv 267 A. - Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen)
Numerical Physiognomy in Ancient India. - Alain Arrault (EFEO)
Calendars, hemerological calculations, manuals of calendar annotations in China.
Friday 19
, 10:00 – 13:00, bibliothèque Sorbonne, Université Paris 1Seminar of translation The Aristotle Metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias
Translation of passages of the Commentary of the Book Small Alpha.
July 2015, May 2015, April 2015, March 2015, February 2015, January 2015, December 2014, October 2014
NOVEMBER 2014
Programme to download (tbn: the informations on the pdf does not take into account the few changes of program occurred since November 6, only the informations on the webpage are actualized. Dates : 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29
Monday 3, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Gris, 734A
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (ERC PhiloQuantumGravity, CNRS)
Towards Symplectic Stacks. (1/4)
Mini-courses in November by Urs Schreiber, details soon online.
, 17:00 – 19:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
History and philosophy of Physics
- Jim Ritter
Contes de l’âge du jazz : l’unification de la physique à Princeton dans les années vingt.
, 10:00 – 12:00, Room Kandinsky, 631B
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Urs Schreiber (Invited Researcher, ERC PhiloQuantumGravity)
Higher geometric quantization. (1/4)
, Thomas Institut, Cologne
Striving for Coherence: Readings in Averroes’ Incoherence of the Incoherence
- Jean-Baptiste Brenet (Univ. Paris 1, SPHERE)
Particulars in the Tahâfut al-tahâfut: A Cross-Talk between Averroes, al-Ghazâlî and Avicenna.
, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Gris, 734A
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (ERC PhiloQuantumGravity, CNRS)
Towards Symplectic Stacks. (2/4)
, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Mondrian, 646A
History of Science, History of Text
:: Forms of written knowledge: Compilations, note-taking, commentaries.
- Elaine Leong (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Creating Treasuries for Health: Knowledge Codification in the ‘Margins’. - Sho Hirose (Univ. Paris Diderot et Projet ERC SAW)
Revision or new work? What lies between the two Goladīpikās. - Eva Wilden (CSMC, Hamburg)
Text, pretext, paratext — commentaries in manuscripts of the Tamil literary-grammatical tradition.
Thursday 13
, 9:30 – 18:00, amphithéâtre Pierre-Gilles De GennesOn the Notion of Identification in Physics and Mathematics
Organisation : Gabriel Catren et Mathieu Anel (ERC PhiloQuantumGravity, CNRS, SPHERE), in the context of the ERC Project PhiloQuantumGravity.
- 09:30 – 11:00 : Mathieu Anel (ERC PhiloQuantumGravity, CNRS)
Ambiguity in Mathematics. - 11:15 - 12:45 : Eric Finster (EPFL - Lausanne)
In Weyl’s Footsteps : Towards a Group-Theoretical Ontology for Quantum Systems. - 14:30 - 16:00 : Urs Schreiber (Invited researcher in the context of ERC project PhiloQuantumGravity)
The Gauge Principle and Local Quantum Field Theory. - 16:15 - 17:45 : David Corfield (University of Kent)
Cohesive Homotopy Type Theory : An opportunity to revive the philosophy of geometry ?
Thursday 13
, 10:00 – 13:00, Room Rothko, 412BMathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
:: I. Gödel and Philosophy (3/3)
- Gabriella Crocco (CEPERC, Univ. Aix-Marseille)
Autour de manuscrits inédits.
, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Malevitch, 483A
Seminar SAW: Mathematical practices in the context of the astral science
:: General mathematical practices in the astral sciences and their relation to/contrast
with mathematical sources 3 : Astral sciences and other disciplines.
- Caterina Guenzi (CEIAS, EHESS)
The tree of jyotiṣa and its branches. Ritual and therapeutic uses of astral sciences in contemporary India. - Cristian Tolsa (Universidad de Barcelona)
Ptolemy’s bridge between mathematical astronomy and Platonic philosophy. - Samuel Gessner (Universidade de Lisboa)
Astral sciences and the making of planetary clocks – a comparison of mechanical translations of planetary theory. - Howard L. Goodman
Dynamic Domains of Activity in Early Chinese Harmonometrics and Their Astral Crossovers and Caesuras.
Friday 14
, 9:30 – 12:30, Room Kandinsky, 631B‘Arabic’ Mathematics & Mathematics in the Renaissance
- Pietro Roccasecca (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Max Planck Institut)
Le De li aspecti de Alhacen : théorie cognitive de la vision et perspective de peintres.
, 10:00 – 12:00, Room Gris, 734A
Philosophy and mathematical physics
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Urs Schreiber (Invited Researcher, ERC PhiloQuantumGravity)
Higher geometric quantization. (2/4)
Friday 14
, 15:00 – 17:00, !! session cancelled, next on Dec. 5 !!Averroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
- Cristina Cerami (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE)
Revision of the translation of CMDC I, 3-4.
, 10:00 – 12:30, Room Rothko, 412B
History of Logic
:: Four reformer logicians (1/4)
- Paul Thom (The University of Sydney)
Avicenna’s break with Aristotle’s logic. The theory of the categories.
Propositional forms. Definitions of the syllogism. Modal syllogistic. Hypothetical syllogistic.
Averroes’ reaction against Avicenna’s reforms.
Monday 17
, 14:00 – 17:00, Room Mondrian, 646AHistory and Philosophy of Mathematics
:: History of mathematics and mathematics education.
Session in english organized by Renaud Chorlay linked to the ERC Project SAW « Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World ».
- Charlotte De Varent (Projet ERC SAW)
Relations between history of mathematics and research in mathematics education: a case study. - Renaud Chorlay (ESPE Paris IV, SPHERE) et Cécile De Hosson (LDAR)
History and didactics of mathematics and the sciences: questions of method.
Monday 17
, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Gris, 734APhilosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (ERC PhiloQuantumGravity, CNRS)
Towards Symplectic Stacks. (3/4)
, 17:00 – 193:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
History and philosophy of Physics
- Julian Barbour
Machian notions of time.
, 10:00 – 12:00, Room Gris, 734A
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Urs Schreiber (Invited Researcher, ERC PhiloQuantumGravity)
Higher geometric quantization. (3/4)
Friday 21
, 14:00 – 18:00, Room 126, Building Olympe de GougesThinking / classifying technical collections
:: Tools in the museum of Archeology and of Ethnography.
- Catherine Schwab (Musée d’Archéologie nationale et Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en- Laye)
Le classement des collections, des réserves aux vitrines, au Musée d’Archéologie nationale. - Sophie Chave-Dartoen et Solenn Nieto (Musée d’ethnographie de l’Université de Bordeaux)
Les collections techniques issues du pavillon des Douanes Chinoises à l’Exposition universelle de 1878 et déposées au Musée d’ethnographie de l’Université de Bordeaux.
Friday 21
, !! exceptionnally 14:30 – 16:30 !!, Amphitheater Pierre-Gilles De GennesMeetings HPS of Paris Diderot
Physics and necessity : Rationalist pursuits from the Cartesian past to the quantum present *.
Book presented by the author: Olivier Darrigol (CNRS, SPHERE).
* Oxford University Press, 2014
, 14:00 – 16:00, Room Gris, 734A
Philosophy and mathematical physics
- Mathieu Anel (ERC PhiloQuantumGravity, CNRS)
Towards Symplectic Stacks. (4/4)
, 17:00 – 193:00, Room Malevitch, 483A
History and philosophy of Physics
- Christiane Schmitz-Rigal
L’art du savoir : formations symboliques et dynamique de l’Apriori chez Cassirer.
, 9:00, Institut Pasteur, auditorium François Jacob, 28, rue du Dr Roux, 75015 Paris
Workshop "The Institutes Pasteur in Maghreb. From beginnings to independances"
Organisation : laboratoire SPHERE, with the support of the Institut des Humanités de Paris and of the Institut Pasteur.
Informations here.
Thursday 27
, 10:00 – 13:00, Room Gris, 734APHD Students: Working group in History and philosophy of physics
- Jonathan Regier (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Sur quelques manières de penser la « cause » en philosophie naturelle au XVIe siècle.
Thursday 27
, 10:00 – 12:00, salle Mondrian, 646APhilosophy and mathematical physics
- Urs Schreiber (Invited Researcher, ERC PhiloQuantumGravity)
Higher geometric quantization. (4/4)
Thursday 27
, 15:00 – 17:00, Room Malevitch, 483AConference of Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour
Moment Maps in Diffeology.
Organisation: Gabriel Catren and Mathieu Anel (ERC PhiloQuantumGravity, CNRS, SPHERE), in the context of the ERC Project PhiloQuantumGravity.
, 10:00 – 13:00, Bibliothèque Sorbonne, University Paris 1
Seminaire of translation The Aristotle Metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias
Translation of texts of Commentary to Book Alpha.
Friday and Saturday 28-29
, 9:00, Room Luc Valentin, 454AWorkshop on Entanglement
Organized by Pierre Uzan (SPHERE), Gabriel Catren (CNRS, projet ERC Philosophie de la Gravitation Quantique Canonique) et Roberto Angeloni (BMC, SPHERE).
Download the programme and abstracts.
To be noted: restricted access on Saturdays to the building, please contact P. Uzan: pierre.uzan (@) paris7.jussieu.fr.
July 2015, May 2015, April 2015, March 2015, February 2015, January 2015, December 2014, November 2014
OCTOBER 2014
Programme to download. Dates : 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 30
Friday 3, 17:00 – 19:00, Conference Room, Centre Alexandre Koyré, 27 rue Damesme, 75013 Paris
Thinking / classifying technical collections
:: La partie ou le tout : autour de la question des échantillons
- Nadine Besse et Sylvain Besson (Musée d’Art et d’Industrie de Saint-Etienne)
La collection d’échantillons textiles du Musée d’Art et d’Industrie : état des lieux. - Isabelle Laboulais (Université de Strasbourg - EA 3400)
Exposer les collections de minéraux : les choix de l’Ecole des mines entre la fin de l’Ancien Régime et la Restauration.
Wednesday 8 (Institute of the Arab World) Thursday-Friday 9–10
(Univ. Paris Diderot, Rooms 454A and 483A)A Manifold Rationality: Sciences, philosophy and Kalâm in Classical Islam
International Conference organised by the Société internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques (S. I. H. S. P. A. I.),
in partnership with the CNRS, the University Paris Diderot
and the Institute of the Arab World (I.M.A.)
and with the support of the following institutions: Région Île-de-France, Mairie de Paris,
Foundation Max van Berchem (Genova), the Institut des Humanités de Paris, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the University of Zürich.
Scientific Committee: Pascal Crozet (SPHERE), Thérèse-Anne Druart (Catholic Univ. of America),
Charles Genequand (Univ. de Genève), Ahmad Hasnaoui (SPHERE), Roshdi Rashed (SPHERE),
Ulrich Rudolph (Univ. de Zürich).
, 10:00 – 13:00, Room Gris, 734A
PHD Students: Working group in History and philosophy of physics
Jean Lassègue (CNRS)
La science moderne entre signe et nature ; remarques sur le point de vue de Cassirer.
, 9:30 – 17:00, Room Mondrian, 646A
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
:: Quels sont les liens entre les notions de construction et d’intuition en mathématiques ?
Session organised by Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE),
on a synthetic text of Alain Connes: ’A view of mathematics’.
- Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Une synthèse sur les mathématiques : quelle unité, quel rapport à la physique.
Pour l’histoire et la philosophie des mathématiques. - Joël Merker (Univ. Paris XI)
L’ange de la géométrie, le démon de l’algèbre. - Marc Lachièze-Rey (APC)
Quelles mathématiques pour quelle physique.
, 10:00 – 13:00, salle 371A
Reading Mathematical Texts
John Wee (University of Chicago)
Mathematical Models of the Micro-Zodiac.
, 10:00 – 13:00 , Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20th Centuries
:: I. Gödel and philosophy (1/3)
Mark van Atten (IHPST)
A failing project: on Gödel’s reception of Leibniz, Husserl and Brouwer.
, 9:30 – 17:30, Room Klimt, 366A
Seminar SAW: Mathematical practices in the context of the astral science
:: General mathematical practices in the astral sciences and their relation to/contrast with mathematical sources 2: Diagrams.
- John Wee (University of Chicago)
A Choice of Microcosms: Dodekatemoria Models
and the Calendar Text System. - Sho Hirose (SAW ERC Project, SPHERE)
Instructions for drawing on the ground in some Sanskrit sources. - Matthias Hayek (CRCAO, Université Paris Diderot)
Cosmograms, Temporalities, and Computations in premodern Japan. - Matthieu Husson (SAW ERC Project- SYRTE-Observatoire de Paris)
Emmanuel Poulle’s distinction between geometrical equatory and mathematical equatory in Les instruments de la théorie des planètes selon Ptolémée : équations et horlogerie planétaire du XIIIe au XVIe siècle.
, 10:00 – 13:00 , Room Rothko, 412B
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20th Centuries
:: I. Gödel and philosophy (2/3)
Juan-Luis Gastaldi (SPH, Univ. Montaigne, Bordeaux)
Arithmétique et contenu dans le processus de mathématisation de la logique au XIXe siècle.
