Medicine, theology and empiricism

Workshop

30th May, 2008.

Participants

Schedule

9.00-10.15 am. Peter Anstey (University of Otago).

The matter of medicine: new medical matter theories in mid-seventeenth-century England.

10.15-10.30 am. Morning tea

10.30-11.45 am. Anik Waldow (University of Sydney).

The function of skeptical arguments within the advancement of knowledge: Bacon, Gassendi, Hume.

11.45-1.00 pm. John Gascoigne (UNSW)

The Royal Society and the New World(s), 1660-1800.

1.00-2.00 pm. Lunch.

2.00-3.30 pm. Margaret Osler (University of Calgary)

What does religion have to do with the Scientific Revolution? (abstract)

3.30-3.45 pm. Afternoon tea

3.45-5.00 pm. Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)

Physico-theology and the construction of a new world picture, 1680-1700.

 

The workshop has been made possible through the award of a SOPHI Special Development Fund grant.

Peter Anstey– Peter.Anstey@otago.ac.nz

John Gascoigne– j.gascoigne@unsw.edu.au

Stephen Gaukroger– Stephen.gaukroger@usyd.edu.au

Margaret Osler- mjosler@ucalgary.ca

Anik Waldow- anik.waldow@arts.usyd.edu.au