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Finding a Path through the Woods: analyzing Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum

International Conference

12–13 décembre 2014
University Paris-Diderot
Buildingt Condorcet

Room Malevitch, 483 A*



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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)


Organisatione
Dana Jalobeanu and Koen Vermeir


With the support of the Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR7219, CNRS–Universities Paris Diderot and Paris 1) .




FRIDAY DECEMBER 12



10:00
Dana Jalobeanu and Koen Vermeir
Introduction


10:30
Silvia Manzo (National University of La Plata)
KEYNOTE: Pretergenerations and strange facts in Sylva Sylvarum.


11.30 Coffe–Break


11:45 – 12:30
Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin)
Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum and mechanical arts: a refutation of Deborah Harkness’s thesis.


14:00 – 16:00
Roundtable 1 : Bacon’s methods and forms of philosophizing: The Sylva and its contexts.



SAMEDI 13 DECEMBRE



9:30 opening


10:00
Roundtable 2 : Spirits and pneumatic substances in the Sylva Sylvarum.


12:00 Break


12:15
Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest)
Ants, Spiders and Bees. Sources, Experiments and Causal Explanations in Sylva sylvarum.


13:00 Lunch


14:00– 14:45
Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest)
The irreducibility of sound to motion in Francis Bacon and the Aristotelian Tradition.





Practical Informations :


Université Paris Diderot,
building Condorcet, 10, rue Alice Domon et Leonie Duquet, 75013 Paris


plan d’accès.

Metro: line 14 & RER C, stop: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand or line 6, stop: Quai de la gare.

Bus: 62, 64, 89 (stop: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand), 325 (stop: Watt)