Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Department of Philosophy - Philosophy, Science and the Sciences

Keynote by Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s University, Canada); talks by Henry Mendell and Matteo Martelli. RTG faculty will present their research. Download the detailed program here.

Opening Workshop of the Summer Semester
April 16, 2015

Program

9.30             Welcome by Jonathan Beere
                   (Spokesperson of the Research Training Group)

9.40 – 11.00  Research Training Group faculty presenting their current
                   research

(Markus Asper, Jonathan Beere, Philip v.d. Eijk, Christoph Markschies, Stephen Menn, Lukas Mühlethaler, Jürgen Renn, Bernd Roling, Barbara Vetter)

11.00           Coffee

11.30           Keynote by Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s University, Canada)

                   “The Shifting Ground of Spontaneous Generation”

12.30           Coffee and snacks

13.30           Henry Mendell (California State University)

“Putting Aristotle's Physics Together: Traces of Early Editorial Practice”

14.15           Matteo Martelli (SFB project “Episteme in Bewegung”)

“Alchemy and the Aristotelian Tradition: Theories of Metallogenesis between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages”