EMBODIED EMPIRICISM WORKSHOP 2009

Unit for history and philosophy of science

University of Sydney

February 20-22, 2009.

Organisation by Charles Wolfe

Embodied Empiricism Workshop 2009 Statement

Day 3. Sun 22nd. The Science Meeting Room, Level 4, Carslaw Building (map co-ord L19)

Day 1. Fri 20th. The Chancellor’s Room in the Holme Building, University of Sydney.

 

9:00am. Meet for Coffee.

 

9:30am. Introduction. Audio

10:00am. First paper by Harold Cook, Victories for Empiricism, Failures for Theory: Medicine and Science in the 17th  Century.

Commentator: Ofer Gal, Audio

 

10:50 am. Morning Tea.

 

11:20 am. Second paper by Cynthia Klestinec, Practical Experience In Anatomy.
 Commentator: Alan Salter, Audio

 

12:10 pm. Third paper by Antonio Clericuzio, The Organical Motions of Body Fluids’. Mechanical and Iatrochemical Theories in 17th-Century Physiology.

Commentator: Justin Smith, Audio

1:00 pm. Break for Lunch.

 

2:00 pm. Fourth paper by Guido Giglioni, Mastering the Appetites of Matter. Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum.

 Commentator: John Sutton, Audio

 

2:50 pm. Fifth paper by Ofer Gal & Raz Chen, Empiricism without the senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye.

Commentator: Guido Giglioni, Audio

 

3:40 pm. Break for Afternoon Tea.

 

4:00 pm. Sixth paper by Alan Salter, Early Modern Empiricism and the Discourse of the Senses.

Commentator: Cynthia Klestinec, Audio

 

7:00 pm. Dinner at Twelve on King Street.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2. Sat 21st. The Chancellor’s Room in the Holme Building, University of Sydney.

 

9:00am. Meet for Coffee.

 

9:15 am. First paper by Justin E.H. Smith, ‘Cranklings and Turnings About': The Relation of Physiology to Theory of Action in Willis, Spinoza, Tyson, and Locke.

Commentator: Dominic Murphy, Audio

 

10:05 am. Second paper by Richard Yeo, Memory and Empiricism: Hartlib, Beale and Boyle.

Commentator: Peter Anstey, Audio

 

10:55 am. Morning Tea.

 

11:15 am. Third paper by John Sutton, Carelessness and Inattention: chance and the physiology of habit between Locke and Hume.

Commentator: Lisa Shapiro, Audio

 

12:05 pm. Fourth paper by Anik Waldow, Empiricism and its Roots in the Ancient Medical Tradition.

Commentator: Richard Yeo, Audio

 

Colonial Empiricism Tour:

1:00 pm. Lunch at the Macleay Museum.

1:45 pm. Bus to Queen Victoria Building.

2:00pm. Visit to the Antique Print Room; walk to and through Botanical Gardens.

4:00 pm. Tour of the Sydney Observatory.

5:00 pm. Free evening.

 

9:00 am. Meet for Coffee.

 

9:15 am. First paper by Peter Anstey, Locke and Helmontian medicine.

Commentator: Antonio Clericuzio, Audio

 

10:05 am. Second paper by Lisa Shapiro, Immersed Experience: Passionate Perception and Human Understanding.

Commentator: Gideon Manning, Audio

 

10:55 am. Morning Tea.

 

11:15 am. Third paper by Tobias Cheung, Embodied Stimuli: Bonnet’s Statue of a Sensitive Agent.

Commentator: Charles Wolfe, Audio

 

12:05 pm. Fourth paper by Snait Gissis, Feelings  embodied. From ‘worms’  to humans: the case of Lamarck.

Commentator: Tobias Cheung, Audio

 

1:00 pm. Lunch.

2:00 pm. Fifth paper by Charles T. Wolfe, Empiricist heresies: the polemic against experiment in early modern medical thought

Commentator: Harold Cook, Audio

 

2:55 pm.  Break for Afternoon Tea.

 

3:25 pm. Concluding comments by Snait Gissis and open discussion. Audio.

 

4:15 pm. Break.

 

7:30 pm. Dinner at Darbar on Glebe Point Road.

 

 

 

 

Download the schedule here. (to be updated)

Read the Abstracts online here, or download them here.

Details about accommodation and getting around can be found here.

Evening Meeting. Thur 19th.

7.00pm. Meet for pizza at the Rose Hotel, Chippendale.