Home
Department of Philosophy
Workshop

Natural Order, Technology and the Laws of Nature

This workshop focuses on changing conceptions of nature and technology in early modern philosophy of science and brings together leading scholars on the thought of Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton.

A table with different items from several hundred years ago, like pen and ink, books, old globes.
Photo:
char.hypotheses.org

Main content

Program:

08.45: Welcome & Coffee

09.00: Peter Anstey (Univ. Sydney) Early Modern Laws of Nature: Advancing the Origins Story

10.00: Kirsten Walsh (Univ. Exeter): Did Newton Have an Economic Theory?

11.00: Mark Thomas Young (Univ. Bergen): Art and Agency: Exploring the distinction between Science and Technology in Chambers’ Cyclopedia

 

All are welcome!