Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire – UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE

Camille Lecompte (ArScAn-VEPMO)
Calcul de surfaces agraires et pratiques cadastrales d’après les textes administratifs du 3e millénaire

Monday 7, videoconference

Session devoted to themes to work on next year

Monday 7, 3pm – 6:30pm, Room Malevitch & videoconference

Philmath Intersem 2021 [Planning, access & abstracts online]

3pm – 4pm Walt Dean (University of Warwick)
A royal road to incompleteness ?

4:15pm – 5:15pm Emmylou Haffner (Institut de Mathématique d’Orsay, University Paris-Saclay)
Reassessing Dedekind’s ideal of rigor ?

5:30pm – 6:30pm Graham Leach-Krouse (Kansas State University)
Coabstraction and the Continuum

Tuesday 8, 3pm – 6:30pm, !! Room Mondrian, 646A !!, & videoconference

Philmath Intersem 2021 [Planning, access & abstracts online]

3pm – 4pm Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (SPHERE, University of Paris)
Mic Detlefsen on Hilbert’s Program, some remarks

4:15pm – 5:15pm Sébastien Maronne (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, University de Toulouse III)
The unreasonable effectiveness of infinite quantities in early modern geometry

5:30pm – 6:30pm Sean Walsh (UCLA, Department of Philosophy)
Infinitesimals, valued fields, and the orders of infinite smallness

Thursday 10, 11:00am – 1pm, Room Malevitch, 483A, & videoconference

Discussion on the program for next year

Friday 11, 4pm – 6pm, videoconference

Mathematics 19th – 21st, History and Philosophy [Abstract online]

Jamie Tappendem (University of Michigan)
Frege, Carl Snell and Romanticism ; Fruitful Concepts and the Organic/Mechanical Distinction

Monday 14, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 & videoconference

Knowledge and field in health : ethical and epistemological issues [program online]

Organisation : Marie Gaille (CNRS, SPHere), Marta Spranzi (University of Saclay, UMR 8085), Catherine Dekeuwer-Carrier (University Jean Moulin Lyon 3)

10am Catherine Dekeuwer-Carrier (University Jean Moulin Lyon 3)

– 11am – 12:30am
Clémence Guillermain (SPHere) and Marie Sommier

– 2pm – 3pm Brenda Bogaert

– 3pm – 4:30pm
Collective reflection on the steps to be taken in field philosophy on the ethical and regulatory level, based on two concrete examples presented by Agathe Camus et Maria Cristina Murano.

Monday 14, 2pm – 5pm, face-to-face or/and videoconference

Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts

AJ Misra (University of Copenhagen)
On the first two proofs of Euclid’s Proposition I.47 in Jagannātha’s Rekhāgaṇita
and Nasīr al-dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdis : a comparative examination

X. Wang (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
The texts resulting from teaching analysis at the end of the 18th century

Monday 14, 3pm – 6:30pm, Room Malevitch & videoconference

Philmath Intersem 2021 [Planning, access & abstracts online]

3pm–4pm Iulian Toader (University of Vienna)
Revisiting Weyl on Dedekind on Proof and Intuition

4:15pm – 5:15pm Gerhard Heinzman (Archives Henri Poincaré - PReST)
Poincaré against the logicians

5:30pm – 6:30pm John Mumma (California State University of San Bernardino)
Seeing an equation in a field of dots

Rothko, 412BMondrian, 646A !!, & videoconference

Philmath Intersem 2021 [Planning, access & abstracts online]

3pm–4pm Chris Porter (Drake University)
Reflections on Detlefsen’s “Peace, Justice and Computation.”

4:15pm – 5:15pm Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHere, University of Paris, & Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University)
On Numbers as Formulas — A Second Attempt

5:30pm – 6:30pm Roudtable, with Matteo Bianchetti, Ellen Lehet (Notre Dame University), Mattia Petrolo ((Universidade Federal do ABC), Paul Tran-Hoang (Lone Star College - University Park)

Wednesday 16

Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age

Working session

Thursday 17, 2:30pm – 6pm, videoconference

Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age, (Chspam), & "Mathematics from Ancient to Modern Age" [program online]

: : The Principles of Demonstration in the Aristotelian Tradition. Greek, Arabic and Latin Interpretations of the Posterior Analytic

Organization : V. de Risi (CNRS, SPHere, & Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

2:30pm – 2:40pm (CET) Introduction

2:40pm – 3:40pm Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University)
Epistemologizing Aristotle’s Account of the Principles of Demonstration. The Greek Commentary Tradition

3:40 pm – 3:50pm Break

3:50pm – 4:50pm Riccardo Strobino (Tufts University)
Avicenna on Immediate Principles, between Logic and Metaphysics

4:50pm – 5pm Break

5pm – 6pm Amos Corbini (Università di Torino)
Principes de la démonstration et modèle déductif euclidien. Tensions chez Jean Buridan et dans la tradition latine médiévale

Thursday 17, 3pm, videoconference

Working Group Brill Noether

Session of translation. For the link, thanks to write before June 16 to : nicolasmichel.univ ( at ) gmail.com with keyword-subject : GDTBN 17-06-21

Monday 28, 5:30pm, webconference & conferences Room, IHPST, level 2, 13 rue du Four 75005 Paris

Presentation of the activities of the international Chaire d’excellence Blaise Pascal 2021-2022 - Paolo Mancosu

Introduction : Marco Panza (IHPST), Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (SPHERE) & Gerhard Heinzmann (Archives Poincaré)

Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley)
Infinity : historical, mathematical and philosophical perspectives

Discussion and beyond : Alberto Naibo (IHPST), David Rabouin (SPHERE) & Pierre Wagner (IHPST)

Download the scientific description related to the Chaire.

MAY 2021

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17	18	19	20	21
24	25	26	27	28
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IMPORTANT : All seminars are actually organised on webconference (Zoom-University of Paris) : the details of the connection and link are indicated on the pages of the seminars.
If you wish to join, we thank you for writing to the organizers if possible 24 hours before the date of the session at the latest.

Monday 3, 2pm–5pm, webconference

Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts

Adeline Reynaud (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere)
Variations entre les procédures, variations entre les formulations, variations entre les diagrammes dans la collection de problèmes paléo-babylonienne MS 3052

C. Yifu (Institute of Modern History, Academic Sinica, Taiwan)
Paroles et Actes - accord inexact entre des comptines et les mouvements des boules dans le boulier chinois

Tuesday 4, 9:30am–16:30pm, webconference & Room Laplanche, Université de Paris, Building Olympe de Gouges (5th floor), 8 place Paul Ricœur, 75013 Paris
Study Day of the research axis History & philosophy of medecine

Organisation : Marie Gaille (CNRS, SPHere)

: : Presentation of the reserachactivities of the new members, then discussion

Elodie Giroux (University Lyon 3)

Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl (HPS, University of Paris, SPHere)

Solène Lellinger (HPS, University of Paris, SPHere)

Nathalie Sage-Pranchère (CNRS, SPHere)

: : General discussion of the research works of the axis

Tuesday 4, 3:30pm, webconference

History & philosophy of physics [abstracts online]

: : History of quantum optics

Johannes-Geert Hagmann (Deutsches Museum, Munich)
Electronics preceding optics : The Shawanga Lodge conference in 1959

Gautier Depambour (University of Paris–ED623, SPHere)
L’introduction des états cohérents dans le domaine de l’optique quantique

Olival Freire Jr (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)
The slow acceptance of quantum optics

Wednesday 5, 2pm–6pm, webconference
Historical, philosophical and anthropological approaches to numbers, measurement and measurability [abstracts online]

: : A critical approach to the opposition between ’concrete’ and ’abstract’ numbers

Session organized by C. Proust & E. Vandendriessche

2pm–2:30pm Christine Proust & Éric Vandendriessche, (CNRS, SPHere)
Introduction : Concrete numbers” versus “abstract numbers”

2:30pm–3:45pm Débora Ferreira & Gert Schubring (Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik, Bielefeld University, & visiting professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Complex numbers" and the problem of multiplication between quantities

4pm–5:15pm Christine Chambris (Laboratoire de didactique André Revuz, University of Cergy-Pontoise) & Jana Visnovska (School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia)
On history of units in French elementary school arithmetic : The case of proportionality

5:15pm–6pm General discussion

Thursday 6, 9:45am – 15:30pm, webconference

: : The term ma‘na (intention) in the Arabic tradition - between kalâm, falsafa, and grammar, i

[argument & program to download online]

Organisation : Miriam Rogasch & Lucie Tardy (University Paris 1, Gramata, UMR 7219)

9:45am Presentation

10am Marwan Rashed (Sorbonne University)
σημαινόμενον / ma’nā

11am Georgine Ayoub (INALCO)
La matérialité de la langue et le ma’nā entre nahw et balāgha : quelques éléments d’analyse

12am – 2pm Lunchbreak

2pm Ziad Bou Akl (CNRS)
Le ma’nā dans le premier kalām sunnite

3pm Francesco CHIABOTTI (INALCO)
"Plonge dans l’océan des maʿānī !" Notes sur l’emploi de maʿnā dans la littérature mystique en islam

4pm – 5:30pm Final discussion

Thursday 6, 10:15am–1:30pm, webconference

History of Science, History of Text [abstracts online]

10:15am–11:45am Mark Geller (University College London & IRA Paris)
The Cuneiform Conundrum : how do you ‘alphabetise’ without an alphabet ?

11:45am–12am Break

12am–1:30pm Michael Friedman (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Medieval Hebrew mathematical manuscripts left in mediis rebus : The case study of “A treatise on measurement of areas and volumes” of Bar Hiyya

Thursday 6, 3pm–5pm, webconference

The “Arts of Thinking” Mathematics : introduction and case studies in Ethnomathematics [abstracts online]

Arnaud Mace (University of Franche-Comté)
Mathématiques militaires en Grèce ancienne d’Homère à Platon

Discussion on the talk of Arnaud Macé (the two preparatory texts sent)

Reading of texts (Alangui, W. V., et Chemla, K. & Pahaut, S.)

Collective discussion on all the themes addressed this year

Friday 7, 10:00am–12:00am, webconference

Guillaume Loizelet (University of Paris, SPHere, & University of Toulouse)
Similitude et disparité des traitements mathématiques du calcul de la taille des planètes de Ptolémée à Al-Bīrūnī

Friday 7, 2pm–4pm, webconference

Massimo Maiocchi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Autour des baguettes à calculer en Mésopotamie archaïque

Monday 10, 11am–3:30pm, webconference

Seminar of the PhDs Students of SPHere

: : The concept of any object, between mathematics and philosophy

Session organized by Brice Halimi

11am–12:30am
Michel Vaquié (Institut de Mathématiques, Toulouse)
De l’objet quelconque au contre-exemple [abstract online]

2pm–3:30pm
Sébastien Richard (Free University of Brussells)
Le quelque chose en général chez Husserl : des mathématiques à l’ontologie formelle

Thursday 11, 3pm, webconference

Working Group Brill Noether

Session of translation. Link : please write before May 10 to nicolasmichel.univ ( at) gmail.com with key-word GDTBN 11-05-21

Tuesday 11, 3:30pm, webconference

History and Philosophy of Physics : workshops [abstracts online]

: : Unwanted particles

Justin Gabriel (University of Paris–ED623, SPHere)
Unwanted particles : Early reception of the first experimental indications of "heavy mesons."

Arianna Borrelli (MECS Leuphana University Lüneburg and Technical University Berlin)
The "strange" behaviour of new particles in the 1950s : Suprising fact or theoretical construction ?

Kent Staley (Philosophy, Saint Louis University, Missouri) & Hugo Beauchemin (Physics, Tufts University, Massachusetts)
When no particle is unwanted : Exploring beyond the standard model at the LHC.

Tuesday 18, 9:30am–1:30pm, webconference

Clémence Guillermain (University of Paris–ED623, SPHere)
La place du philosophe dans un laboratoire scientifique

Tuesday 18, 1pm–3pm !!, webconference

Mathematics 19th – 21st, History and Philosophy

Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (HPS, University of Paris ex-Diderot, SPHere)
Sur les imaginaires chez Leibniz

Tuesday 18, 3:30pm, webconference

History and Philosophy of Physics : workshops [abstracts online]

: : Chemical elements

Sarah Hijmans (SPHere, UMR 7219)
The tantalum metals : Inorganic analysis and elementary nature in nineteenth-century chemistry.

Marina Banchetti-Robino (Florida Atlantic University)
John Dalton : Reconciling atomicity with elementarity

Tuesday 18, 4pm–6pm, webconference

Nicolas Michel (Utrecht University, dpt of mathematiics, & SPHere)
Intuition, computations, and reasoning. On Hieronymous Zeuthen’s philosophy and practice of geometry

Friday 21, 9:00–16:45, webconference

Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach

Cross-session with the Cultural History of Dance seminar

9am welcome

9:15am–9:45am Elizabeth Claire (CNRS / CRH) & Roberto Poma (UPEC)
Introduction sur la notion de la contagion en danse (l’exemple du vertige)

9:45am–10:45am Béatrice Delaurenti (EHESS / CRH)
La contagion du bâillement et le pouvoir de l’imagination

Break

11am–12:30am Gregor Rohmann (University of Frankfurt)
With or without contagion : Dancing Mania before and after the 1518 outbreak (en anglais)

Lunchbreak

2pm–3:30pm Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona)
On the archaeology of the notion of dancing mania : of Tunisian women, and other stories

Break

3:45pm–5:15pm Thibaut Julian (CRH)
Avant/après : l’imagination contagieuse du spectacle théâtral, de Diderot à Talma

Friday 28, 10am-12am, webconference

Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy Seminar

Zeinab Karimian (University of Teheran, & SPHere)
Le Résumé des Coniques d’al-Isfahani (XIe siècle)

APRIL 2021

IMPORTANT : : All seminars are actually organised on webconference (Zoom-University of Paris) :
the details of the connection and link are indicated on the pages of the seminars.
If you wish to join, we thank you for writing to the organizers if possible 24 hours before the date of the session at the latest

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Friday 2, 2:30pm–50pm, webconference

Seminar of the Centre Gramata (UMR 7219)

Michael Erler (University of Wurzburg)
Anxiety about the future ? Diogenes ’ utopia and epicurean ’true’ politics’

Alexandra Peralta (University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne)
"Le futur ne nous touche en rien". Sur le statut du temps futur chez Lucrèce

Thursday 8, 10:15am–4:30pm, webconference

History of Science, History of Text [abstracts online]

10:15am–11:45am
Arilès Remaki
Choix des variables dans les brouillons d’algèbre de Leibniz (2)

11:45am–12am Break

12:00am–1:30pm
Andrea Bréard (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg & University Paris-Sud)
Numbers beyond discourse : disruptive or heuristic diagrammatic patterns in Chinese mathematical texts ?

1:30pm–3pm Lunchbreak

3pm–4:30pm
Alexei Volkov (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)
Mathematical texts from Dunhuang : The problem of filiation

Thursday 8, 3pm–5pm, webconference

The “Arts of Thinking” Mathematics : introduction and case studies in Ethnomathe [abstracts online]

: : Ethnomathematic and anthropological study of string games (Project ANR ETKnoS)

Agnès Henri (Inalco, Lacito)
Exploiter un corpus de jeux de ficelle non publié : l’exemple du corpus Ozanne-Rivierre

David Jabin (ANR ETKnoS, SPHere)
Les figures de ficelle dans le Chaco paraguayen : le détail technique au service de l’affiliation ethnique ?

Céline Petit (ANR ETKnoS, SPHere)
Jeux de ficelle dans les sociétés inuit : principes d’action, symbolisme et idées mathématiques

Eric Vandendriessche (CNRS, SPHere, & ANR ETKnoS)

Thursday 8 et Friday 9, webconference

SD “Fictionalism“ in philosophy of mathematics

Organisation : UMR 8011, UMR 7219, Sorbonne University, University of Paris & GDR Philosophy of mathematics

Organisation Committee : Brice Halimi (HPS, University of Paris, SPHere), Fabrice Pataut (CNRS - Sciences, Normes, Démocratie).

Thursday 8

9:30am–9:45pm : welcome

9:45am–11:15am
Valeria Giardino (CNRS - Institut Jean Nicod)
The fiction view of mathematical cognitive tools

11:15am–11:30am Break

11:30am–1pm
Andrea Sereni (Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia),
Chaos in heaven : fictionalism and mathematical creation

2pm–3:30pm

David Rabouin (CNRS, SPHere)
Can one be a fictionalist and a platonist at the same time ? Lessons from Leibniz

Friday 9

11:30am–1pm
Florent Dumont (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Fictional names and mathematical fictionalism

2:30pm–4pm
Andrew Arana (Université de Lorraine)
Following a proof vs following a story

4pm–4:15pm Break

4:15pm–5:45pm
Hartry Field (New York University)
Fictionalism, conventionalism and mathematical objectivity

Friday 9, 2pm–4pm, webconference

Mark Geller (UCL)
Take a tablet and go to bed : dosage in a Babylonian medicine

Monday 12, !! ?9:30am–4pm !!, webconference

Seminar of the PhDs Students of SPHere

: : Émile Borel : mathematician, science organizer, politician and intellectual
[abstracts online]
Session organised by M. C. Bustamante

9:30–10:45
Laurent Mazliak (LPSM) :
Borel : la réponse probabiliste d’un cantorien déçu…

10:45–11:00 Break

11:00–12:15
Martha Cecilia Bustamante (SPHere)
Borel et l’article de Paul et Tatiana Ehrenfest sur les fondements de la mécanique statistique

12:15–12:30 pause

12:30–13:45
Alain Bernard
Borel et l’approche scientifique des questions de morale et de progrès social

13:45–14:45 Pause déjeuner

14:45–16:00
Matthias Cléry (GHDSO)
Organiser l’activité probabiliste parisienne dans l’entre-deux-guerres : Borel mathématicien, éditeur, professeur et académicien

Tuesday 13, 9:30–13:30, webconference

: : Public and science

Session of the Phds Students of the master Lophiss

Nadège Lemarchand (master LOPHIS, University of Paris)
La communication du CERN sur l’environnement

Jean-Baptiste Fiquet (master LOPHIS, University of Paris)

Vulgarisation scientifique : présentation du livre L’opinion publique et la science : à chacun son ignorance, de Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Tuesday 13, !! 10am–12am !!, webconference

Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age

Andrea Costa (CNRS, Centre Jean Pépin)
De vibrationibus aëris tensi. Les recherches de G. W. Leibniz dans le domaine de l’acoustique

Thursday 15, 1:45pm–5:30pm, webconference

: : Intentio, New research on intentionality in the Middle Ages (I)

Study Day organised by Véronique Decaix, (Centre Gramata, UMR 7219), in the framework of tyhe Seminar “Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age” of the Centre CHSPAM, SPHERE UMR 7219, and with the support of the Institut Universitaire de France

1:45pm
Presentation

Chair : Aurélien Robert (CNRS, CHSPAM, SPHere, UMR 7219)

2pm–2:30pm
Laurent Cesalli (University of Geneva)
Intentionnalité et similitude -– quelques éléments austro-médiévaux

2:30pm–3pm
José Filipe Silva (University of Helsinki)
Intentionality of acts vs intentionality of content in Late Medieval theories of Perception

3pm–3:30pm
Discussion

3:30pm–3:45pm
Break

Chair : Cristina Cerami (CNRS, CHSPAM, SPHere, UMR 7219)

3:45pm–4:15pm
Valérie Cordonier (CNRS, SPHere)
Au carrefour de la physique et de l’éthique : le praeter intentionem chez les lecteurs latins d’Aristote (c. 1250-1550)

4:15pm–4:45pm
Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto)
The Intentionality of Appetitive Acts

4:45pm–5:15pm
Discussion

5:15pm–5:30pm
Conclusion

Thursday 15, 9:30am–1:30pm, webconference

Working Group Brill Noether

Session of translation. Link on demand, thanks to write before 04/14 to nicolasmichel.univ ( at) gmail.com with keyword GDTBN 15-04-21

Friday 16, 9am–4:45pm, webconference

Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach

9am–10:30am
Suzanne Rochefort (CRH)
Entre analyse et géométrie, l’approche de Monge

10:45am–12:15am
Roberto Poma (UPEC)
Mollesse du corps et force de l’imagination dans l’éducation des enfants (XVI-XVII siècles)

1:30pm–3:pm
Jean-Pierre Cavaillé (EHESS / CRH)
Magie naturelle et pouvoir de l’imagination dans quelques textes du XVIIe siècle : Campanella, Gaffarel, Naudé

3:15pm–4:45pm
Marion Lieutaud (University of Paris Sorbonne)
Pouvoirs de l’imagination et contractions de l’âme chez Giordano Bruno

Friday 16 avril, !!! 3pm !!!–6pm, webconference

Mathematics 19th – 21st, History and Philosophy

Christopher Hollings (Oxford University)
Meeting under the integral sign ? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the eve of the Second World War [abstract online]

MARCH 2021

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Monday 1st, 2pm–5pm
Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts

Catherine Morice-Singh (SPHere, University of Paris)
Quelques considérations autour du kuṭṭīkāra de Mahāvīra

Alexis Trouillot (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere)
‘Nuzhat al-ʿalbāb’, a treatise on calculations byʾUmar al-Walātī (d. 1836-7)

Tuesday 2, 9:30am–1:30pm
Seminar of the PhDs Students of SPHere

Session organised by Sarah Hijmans (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere)

Discussion on the text of Paul Feyerabend, "Consolations for the specialist" in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, (Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds), Cambridge University Press, 1970)

Thursday 4, 10:15am–4:30pm, videoconference

The “Arts of Thinking” Mathematics : introduction and case studies in Ethnomathematics

: : Brouillons [Abstracts online]

10:15am–11:45am
Arilès Remaki (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere, & ANR Mathesis)
Choix des variables dans les brouillons d’algèbre de Leibniz

11:45am–12:00am Break

12:00am–1:30pm
Edgar Lejeune (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere, & Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, LATTICE)
How did historians scholarly edit for IBM punched cards ? A comparison between two case-studies (France, 1970-1980)

1:30pm–3pm pause déjeuner

3pm–4:15 pm
Mathias Grote (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Synthesis and systematization – Modern European Encyclopedisms

Wednesday 10, 9:30am–12:30am (tbc), videoconference
Historical, philosophical and anthropological approaches to numbers, measurement and measurability

: : Identification & quantification

Session organised by S. Hijmans (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere) & N. de Courtenay (HPS, University of Paris, SPHere)

Jan Potters (University of Antwerp)
Identification and Measurement : On the Experimental Study of the Velocity-Dependency of the Electron’s Charge-to-Mass Ratio

Justin Gabriel(University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere)
Identifying cosmic rays in the early age of particle physics : the odd reception of a convincing observation

Thursday 11, 3pm–5pm, videoconference

Lisa Rougetet (Centre François Viète, University of Bretagne Occidentale)
Les activités de pliage de papier dans les ouvrages de récréations mathématiques (XVIIe – XVIIIe) : entre géométrie et amusement

Sophie Desrosiers (EHESS, Centre de recherches historiques CRH) & Éric Vandendriessche (CNRS, SPHere)
Atelier d’ethnomathématique, 1

Friday 12, !! 10:00–12:00 !!, videoconference

Micheline Decorps-Foulquier (University Blaise Pascal, SPHere)
Sérénus : un mathématicien grec peu connu

Friday 12, 2pm–4pm, videoconference

Robert Middeke-Conlin (University of Copenhagen)
Textes illustrant des pratiques mathématiques dans les activités administratives à l’époque paléo-babylonienne

Tuesday 16, 2pm–4:30pm, videoconference

Mathematics 19th – 21st, History and Philosophy

David Rabouin (CNRS, SPHere, & ANR Mathesis)
On Leibniz’s use of fictions in mathematics

Tuesday 16, 4pm–6pm, videoconference

Discussion with Dirk Schlimm (McGill) on ‘Boole & Frege on the aims of a logical calculus’ [continuation of Dec. 7]

Friday 19, 9:00am–4:45pm, videoconference

Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach

9am–10:30am
Benoit Grévin (CNRS / CRH),
Boncompagno, l’intellectus imaginarius et la transumptio. "Imaginer" le monde à travers la métaphore au XIIIe siècle

10:45am–12:15am
Nicolas Weill-Parot (EPHE/Saprat)
Action à distance et imagination dans les commentaires de la Physique d’Aristote (XIIIe-XVe siècle)

1:30pm–3pm
Thibaut Trochu (University of Lille/INSPE)
L’imagination religieuse selon William James

3:15pm–4:45pm
Roberto Poma (UPEC)
Misère et grandeur Della forza della fantasia umana (1745) de Ludovico Muratori

Tuesday 23, 9:30am–1:30pm, videoconference
Seminar of the PhDs Students of SPHere

: : Models

With the participation of Flora Vachon (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere, & Cermes 3), Eymard Houdeville (Engineer chez TextMe), Marie Lacomme (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere)

Thursday 25, !! exceptionally 1pm–3pm !!, videoconference

The “Arts of Thinking” Mathematics : introduction and case studies in Ethnomathematics

Discussion around the following documents, with the participation of Lisa Rougetet :
- Hull, T. C. (2011). Solving Cubics With Creases : The Work of Beloch and Lill. /The American Mathematical Monthly/, Vol. 118, No. 4, pp. 307-315
- Friedman, M. (2018). Mathematical Recreational Folding in the 20th Century : Between Row and Gardner. in : Lang, Robert J./Bolitho, Mark/You, Zhong (ed.) The proceedings from the seventh meeting of Origami, Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME7), vol. 1 (pp. 165-180), Hertfordshire : Tarquin Publishing.
- Vandendriessche, E. (2015). Ethnomathématique des jeux de ficelle trobriandais./ ethnographiques.org ,/ 29 (déc. 2014)
  https://www.ethnographiques.org/ethnomathematique-des-jeux-de-ficelle-trobriandais
- Vandendriessche, E. (2012). /Kaninikula, mathématiques aux îles Trobriand/. Scientific documentary, 29 min, Production CNRS, diffusion CNRS Images.
  https://images.cnrs.fr/video/4149

Ethnomathematics workshop dedicated to the practice of sand drawings

Monday 29, 2pm–3:30pm
Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts

Guillaume Loizelet (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere, & Institut Mathématique de Toulouse)
Traité sur les quantités des distances et des volumes selon les mesures de Ptolémée de Kūshyār ibn Labbān

FEBRUARY 2021

(forecast)

IMPORTANT : All seminars are actually organised on webconference (Zoom-University of Paris) :
the details of the connection and link are indicated on the pages of the seminars.
If you wish to join us, we thank you for writing to the organizers if possible 24 hours before the date of the session at the latest

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Thursday 4, 10:15am–16:30, webconference

Mathematics 19th – 21st, History and Philosophy

: : Diagrams, 2 [abstracts online]

10:15am–11:45am Alexei Volkov (Institute of Advanced Studies, Paris, & National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)
Mathematical texts from Dunhuang : The problem of filiation

11:45am–12am Break

12am–1:30pm
Samuel Gessner (SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris)
Between astronomical diagrams and instruments : spatializing numerical data of astronomical tables

2:45pm–4:15pm
Nick Jacobson (SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris)
The Role of Planetary Diagrams in Fourteenth-Century Procedure Texts to the Alfonsine Tables

Friday 5, 16:00–18:00, webconference

Bruno Belhoste (University Paris 1)
Entre analyse et géométrie, l’approche de Monge

Monday 8, !! 2pm–5:30pm !!, webconference

The “Arts of Thinking” Mathematics : introduction and case studies in Ethnomathematics

: : Numbers & Symbols [abstracts online]
Session organised by N. Michel and J. L. Gastaldi

2pm–3pm
Nicolas Michel (Universiteit Utrecht & SPHere)
Symbols, signs, or marks ? Schubert on the manipulation of numbers

3pm–3:15pm Break

3:15pm–4:15pm
David Dunning (Oxford University)
Writing the Rules of Reason : Inscriptive Practice and the Rise of Mathematical Logic

4:30pm–5:30pm
Roundtable hosted by Juan-Luis Gastaldi (UTH Zurich, & SPHere) and David Waszek (McGill University) on the theme ‘Numbers & Symbols in 19th century, historical & philosophical perspectives’

Wednesday 10, 9:30–12:30 ou 13:00–17:00 ???
Approches historiques, philosophiques et anthropologiques des nombres, de la mesure et de la mesurabilité

: : One problem, several possible measures

Session organised by M. Lacomme (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere), M. Pegny (post-doc in AI Ethics, Carl Friedrich von Weiszäcker-Zentrum, Universität Tübingen), E. Lejeune (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere & LATTICE)

9:30am
Guillaume Lecointre (MNHN, UMR 7205)
Mesurer la parenté

11:00am
Christophe Denis (LIP6, Sorbonne University)
Challenges and Opportunities on Using Deep Learning to Better ExplainComplex Phenomena

Thursday 11, 3pm–5pm, webconference

Sophie Desrosiers (EHESS), Flavia Carraro (Doctor in anthropology (LAS/Paris 8), associate researcher at Centre Norbert Elias and ArScAn), Eric Vandendriessche (CNRS, SPHere)
Idées mathématiques et constructions textiles

Friday 12, !! 9:30am–11:30am !!, webconference

Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Università di Venezia)
Late-Scholastic Celestial Physics : The Problem of Heavenly Motion in the Age of Copernicus and Kepler

Friday 12, 2pm–4pm, webconference

Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age

Louise Quillien (ArScAn)
Exercices mathématiques paléo-babyloniens sur les variations des prix du marché

Monday 15, session postponed on March 1st !
Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts

Alexis Trouillot (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere)
‘Nuzhat al-ʿalbāb’, a treatise on calculations byʾUmar al-Walātī (d. 1836-7)

Thursday 18, 10am–4pm, webconference

: : Philosophy & Medecine in Classic Islam

Study Day organized by C. Cerami and J. Chandelier

10am
Cristina Cerami (CNRS, SPHere) et Joël Chandelier (University Paris 8)
Presentation

10:15am
Julien Devinant (Centre Léon Robin)
Idées noires ? Raison et émotions dans la mélancolie selon Galien

11am
Jawdath Jabbour (Centre Paul-Albert Février)
Les différentes formes de l’argumentation en faveur du cardiocentrisme Contre Galien de Farabi

11:45am
Tommaso Alpina (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Are plants and animals a matter of complexion ? Preliminary remarks on botany and zoology in Avicenna

Break

2:30pm
Pauline Koetschet (IFPO Beirut)
Quels logiciens sont les médecins ? Médecine et logique dans les Doutes sur Galien et la Solution aux Doutes

3:15pm–4pm
Joel Chandelier (University PARIS 8)
Médecine et politique, médecins et pouvoirs (al-Andalus, XIIe s.)

mardi 23, 14:00–16:30, webconference

Mathematics 19th – 21st, History and Philosophy

Working session on Scientia Perpectiva

JANUARY 2021

WITH OUR BEST WISHES FOR 2021

IMPORTANT : All seminars are actually organised on webconference (Zoom-University of Paris) :
the details of the connection and link are indicated on the pages of the seminars.
If you wish to join us, we thank you for writing to the organizers if possible 24 hours before the date of the session at the latest

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Monday 11, 9:30am–1pm, videoconference

History and Philosophy of Mathematics
: : Numbers that cannot be added [abstracts online]
Session organised by K. Chemla & C. Proust

9:30am–9:45am a few words of introduction by K. Chemla

9:45am–10:45am
Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHere)
Nombres et opérations selon les textes mathématiques cunéiformes : du paradigme linéaire aux problèmes quadratiques

10:45am–11:45am
Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHere, & Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University)
Kummer et les diviseurs idéaux

11:45am–12am Break

12am–1pm
Nicolas Michel (University of Utrecht, Dpt of Mathematics, & SPHere)
Le problème de l’addition dans la genèse du calcul de Schubert

Monday 12, 4pm–6pm, videoconference

Discussion of the working group on the translation of Bericht of Brill & Noether

Thursday 14, 10:15am–4:30pm, videoconference

The “Arts of Thinking” Mathematics : introduction and case studies in Ethnomathematics

: : Organizing texts [abstracts online]

10:15am–11:45am Andrea Costa (CNRS, Centre Jean-Pépin UMR 8230)
De la taxinomie à l’encyclopédie : les plans d’ouvrages dans la production de G.W. Leibniz

11:45am–12am Break

12am–1:30pm
Thomas Morel
Écrire, dessiner et prêcher des pratiques mathématiques dans les mines de l’époque moderne

3pm–4:15pm
Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHere)
La colonne comme outil de calcul dans les commentaires mathématiques en Sanskrit : avec ou sans sens ?

Thursday 14, ! 3pm–5pm !, videoconference

Sophie Desrosiers (EHESS), Marc Chemillier (EHESS), Eric Vandendriessche (CNRS, SPHere)
Presentation of the seminar, followed by an introduction to Different currents ethnomathematics

Friday 15, ! session cancelled !

Athanase Papadopoulos (IRMA, Strasbourg)
Les Sphériques de Menelaüs

’Friday 15, 2pm–4pm, ! session cpostponed to January 29th ! ->#29-01-2021]

Knowledge and field in health : ethical and epistemological issues

Monday 18, 10am–5:30pm, Université de Paris, [tbc], Room Laplanche, Building Olympe de Gouges, 8 rue Albert Einstein / Place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris, or videoconference

Organisation : Marie Gaille, Senior Researcher (SPHERE, UMR 7219, CNRS-University of Paris) & Marta Spranzi, (lecturer HDR, « Printemps », University of Saclay, UMR 8085, CNRS-University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines).

9:30am–10am : welcome coffee

10am–10:30am : Introduction and roundtable presentation

10:30am–11:30am
Emanuele Clarizio (lecturer, Catholic University of Lille), Roberto Spoma and Michele Spano, authors, present their book Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux, edited in 2020

11:30-12:30
Marie Gaille : presentation of La nature humaine à la lumière de la psychopathologie, by Kurt Goldstein, and of its translation

2pm–3pm
Presentation of Maud Bénétrau (PhD Student in philosophy, ENS Lyon)

3pm–4:30pm
: : Research in ethics and genomic medicine :
. Catherine Dekeuwer (lecturer in philosophy, University Lyon 3)
. Raphaël Pfeiffer (PhD Student, University of Paris)

Monday 25, 2pm – 3:30pm, videoconference
Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts

AJ Misra (University of Copenhagen) [tbc]

Tuesday 26, 9:30am – 1:30pm, videoconference
Seminar of the PhDs Students of SPHere

: : Replicability in Physics and Chemistry : Case Studies

Justin Gabriel (University of Paris, ED 623, SPHere)
Observation exceptionnelle et reproductibilité : une étude de cas en histoire de la physique des particules

Sarah Hijmans (University of Paris, ED 623, SPHere)
Le rôle de la réplication dans l’acceptation de nouveaux éléments chimiques, 1800-1870

Tuesday 26, 1:30pm–4:30pm, videoconference

The “Arts of Thinking” Mathematics : introduction and case studies in Ethnomathematics

Lucia Oliveri (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster) : Leibniz’s on the Limit of Descartes’s Philosophy of Language and its Impact on Mathematics : The Case of Fictions

Thursday 28, 1pm–5pm , videoconference

Eric Vandendriessche (CNRS, SPHere)
Different currents ethnomathematics, 2

Friday 29, 2pm–4pm, videoconference

Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHere)
Nouveaux textes de procédure provenant de la région de la Diyala publiés par J. Friberg et F. Al-Rawi : IM 121613 et IM 121512

DECEMBER 2020

Activities SPHere,
December 2020

IMPORTANT : All seminars will take place by webconference on Zoom-University of Paris :
the details of the connection methods are indicated on the pages of the seminars.
If you wish to join us, we thank you for writing to the organizers if possible 24 hours before the date of the session at the latest

Friday 4, 2 pm–4 pm, webconference

Mathematics 19th – 21st, History and Philosophy

Mathieu Ossendrijver (Freie Universität Berlin)
Old Babylonian waterclock problems

Monday 7, 9:30 am–1 pm, webconference

History and Philosophy of Mathematics [presentation online]

: : Tables & reasoning [abstracts online]
Session organized by A. Keller

2:15 pm–2:45 pm
Arilès Remaki (University of Paris, ED 623, SPHere)
Comment repérer les raisonnements implicites que dissimulent les tables en histoire des mathématiques ? Exemples au XVIIe siècle

3 pm
Matthieu Husson (PI ERC ALFA, Syrte, Observatoire - PSL) et Samuel Gessner (post-doc ERC ALFA, Syrte, Observatoire - PSL)
Movement of the fixed stars : between tabular and figurative approaches in Alfonsine astronomy (14th - 15th c.)

4 pm–4:30 pm Discussion

Monday 7, 4 pm–6 pm, webconference

David Waszek (University McGill)
Calculus’ as Method or ‘Calculus’ as Rules ? Boole against Frege on a systematic method for logic [documents online]

Tuesday 8, 2 pm–4 pm, webconference

Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age

Working session on works of Mark Wilson (speaker : Jimmy Degroote)

Thursday 10, 10 am–12 am & 2:30 pm–4:30 pm, webconference

: : Prophecy and Revelation in Arab-Islamic and Jewish Philosophical Traditions [program to download online]

Study Day organized by S. di Donato

10 am Silvia Di Donato (CNRS, UMR 7219)
Introduction, then La Scène du mont Sinaï dans le discours sur la prophétie d’après les autographes du Guide des égarés.

10:40 am David Lemler (Sorbonne University)
Tradition et philosophie dans l’établissement du sens des textes prophétiques chez Maïmonide et Albalag

11:20 am Olga Lizzini (Aix-Marseille University, Iremam)
Prophecy according to the falsafa : some remarks on imagination, truth (and politics)

12 am–2:30 pm break

2:30 pm Cecilia Martini (University de Padoue)
Revelation and Prophecy in al-Fārābī : models and aporias

3:10 pm Meryem Sebti (CNRS, UMR 8230)
L’angélologie comme fondement de l’expérience prophétique chez Avicenne

3:50 pm Peter Adamson (University of Munich)
Averroes’ Decisive Treatise (Faṣl al-maqāl) and Exposition (Kashf) as Dialectical Works

Monday 14, 2pm–3:30pm, webconference
Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts [abstract online]

Jean-Claude Penin (Dishas)
Un artisan, astronome et mathématicien du 15e siècle : Jean Fusoris

Tuesday 15, 9:30 am– 1:30 pm, webconference
Seminar of the PhDs Students of SPHere

: : Constitute a corpus [abstracts online]

Edgar Lejeune (University of Paris, SPHere, & LATTICE)
Un modèle statistico-linguistique de construction d’un corpus en histoire : le cas du logiciel ALINE de l’Équipe de Recherche Autonome 713 (1972-1975)

Gautier Depambour (University of Paris, SPHere)
Comment l’historien des sciences peut-il gérer la récente profusion des sources primaires ?

Flora Vachon (University of Paris, SPHere)
La constitution d’un corpus pour une généalogie de la paléogénétique/génomique humaine

Arilès Rémaki (University of Paris, SPHere)
Que faire des sources manquantes ? Exemple de la découverte de l’exponentielle par Leibniz

Wednesday 16, 9:30 am– 12:30 am, webconference

Historical, philosophical and anthropological approaches to numbers, measurement and measurability

: : Reflection on measurement uncertainties in physical sciences and climate sciences [abstracts online]

Session organized by N. de Courtenay (HPS, University of Paris (Diderot), & SPHere) et F. Grégis

Fabien Grégis (LIUC Università Cattaneo, Castellanza, & SPHere)
Savoir ce que l’on ne sait pas ? L’« incertitude de mesure » en métrologie et en physique

Julie Jebeile (Institut de Philosophie & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern)
Pluralisme des modèles et incertitudes dans les sciences du climat

Thursday 17, 10:15 am–4:30 pm, webconference

: : Diagrams 1 [abstracts online]

Julie Lefebvre (University Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, MoDyCo, UMR 7114)
Quelques remarques sur l’articulation d’un diagramme à une ligne écrite : typologie et enjeux interprétatifs

11:45 am–12 am Break

12 am–1:30 pm
Micheline Decorps (University Blaise Pascal, Clermont II, & SPHere)
Sur la relation entre texte et figure dans les traités mathématiques et techniques grecs : étude de quelques exemples

2:45 pm–4:15 pm
Alexis Trouillot ((University of Paris–ED623, SPHere)
Production of an archive and production of a calculation text in the Saharan West

Friday 18, 9:30 am–12:30 am, webconference

Twelfth French Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop (FPMW 12)

Aurélien Robert (CNRS, SPHere)
Marco Trevisano (Venise, fin XIVe siècle) sur l’unité et le nombre

NOVEMBER 2020

All seminars will be on Zoom-University of Paris :
the details of the connexion are indicated on the pages of the seminars.
If you wish to join, we thank you for writing to the organisers if possible 24 hours latest before the session.

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Univ. of Paris (PRG Diderot) : accès + carte campus PRG
Activities SPHere, November 2020

Thursday 5th, Friday 6th, Saturday 7th, Thursday 12th, Friday 13th, in the afternoons, in webconference

This twelth occurrence of the conference is organized by Les Archives Henri-Poincaré (UMR 7117), and financially supported by the GDR “Philosophy of Mathematics” and the ANR / DFG project “ FFIUM ”.

Scientific committee : Julien Bernard, Paola Cantù, Emmylou Haffner, Brice Halimi, Jean-Baptiste Joinet, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Sébastien Maronne, Marco Panza, Frédéric Patras, Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz.

Organisation committee : Gerhard Heinzmann, Baptiste Mélès, Valeria Giardino, Andrew Arana.

Speakers : Nicola Bonatti (University of St Andrews), Mjria Hartimo (University of Jyväskylä), Thomas Hausberger (Université de Montpellier), Gerhard Heinzmann (Université de Lorraine), Elio La Rosa (LMU Munich) / Mattia Petrolo (Federal University of ABC), Guillaume Massas (University of California, Berkeley) / Anna Bellomo (University of Amsterdam), Kenneth Manders (University of Pittsburgh), Bertrand Remy (Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz), Antonio Piccolomini (Aix-Marseille Université) / Davide Catta (Université de Montpellier), Tabea Rohr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Valeria Giardino (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod)

Thursday 6, 14:00–16:00, webconference

Cécile Michel (CNRS, ArScAn-HAROC)
Textes scolaires paléo-assyriens contenant des exercices de conversions

Monday 9, !! 14:00–16:30 !!, webconference
History and Philosophy of Mathematics [presentation online]

: : Working session around the concept of material anchoring of reasoning
Session organized by D. Rabouin

14:15–14:45
David Rabouin (CNRS, SPHere)
La notion d’ancrage matériel d’après Hutchins

15:00
Roundtable : Sophie Desrosiers (EHESS, CRH), Valeria Giardino (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod) et David Waszek (University McGill)

16:00–16:30 Discussion

Wednesday 18, 10:00–12:00, webconference, CANCELLED !