Organisers: Sébastien Maronne (Univ. Paul Sabatier, IMT, SPHERE) et David Rabouin (SPHERE)
The texts studied and the claims displayed by the authors are discussed in three-hours meetings. Questions occur during the talk in order to support discussion. Attention is paid to read and comment primary sources. Meetings of “bibliographical seminar” will be devoted to the discussion of a book with its author.
The seminar is held in French and in English.
Audience: the seminar is particularly intended for young scholars : Ph.D. and master students.
PROGRAMME 2012-2013: first semester: the group has worked on a project about cartesian geometric style. Monthly sessions will start on April 10 in Paris Diderot University, site Paris Rive Gauche, 10 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet 75013 Paris – Campus map.
10 April
11:00–13:00 : Jean Dhombres (Centre Koyré, CNRS) Tschirnhaus : un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine.
14:30–16:30 : Jean Dhombres will read with the audience texts focused on the method of undetermined coefficients from Descartes to D’Alembert.
22 May
Siegmund Probst (Leibniz Archiv, Hanovre) will read with the audience texts of Leibniz focused on the method of undetermined coefficients.
23 May, 10:00 – 13:00, Room 888c (tbc), building Grands Moulins, hall C
Siegmund Probst (Leibniz Archiv, Hanovre)
Leibniz as reader and second inventor.
Also in this section :
- Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age 2013–2014
- Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach. 2013–2014
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
- History and Philosophy of Mathematics 2013–2014
- Reading Mathematical Texts 2013–2014
- "Arabic" Mathematics 2013–2014
- Mathematics in the Renaissance 2013–2014
- Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries 2013–2014
- PhilMath Intersem 5. 2014 Seminar 2013–2014
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE OF NATURE<BR>
- History and Philosophy of Physics 2013–2014
- PHD Students: Working group in History and philosophy of physics 2013–2014
- Averroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle 2013–2014
- Philosophy and Physics 2013–2014
- Models of physical transmission in the Aristotelian tradition 2013–2014
- History of Light 2013–2014
- Science and knowledge of Earth and Heaven from Antiquity to Newton 2013–2014
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MEDECINE
- Race and medecine 2013–2014
- AXIS HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN AGE
