The speakers will be: Philip Beeley, Stephen Clucas, Daniel Garber, Franco Giudice, Francesca Giuliano, John Henry, Douglas jesseph, Cees Leijenhorst, Agostino Lupoli, Timothy Raylor and Elaine Stroud.
The sessions will be chaired by Noel Malcolm, Kinch Hoekstra, Luc Borot, Catherine Wilson, Daniel Garber and Martine Pécharman.
The Natural Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Its Context and Development
Date: Friday 03 Feb 2012 (All day) to Saturday 04 Feb 2012 (All day)
Place: Friday: MFO - Saturday: All Souls College
Research programme: Modernities
Friday 3 February, Maison Française d’Oxford
Morning Session
Chair: Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, Oxford)
10.30-11.30 Timothy Raylor (Carleton College, Northfield)
Hobbes's Method of Composition and its Implications
11.30-12.30 Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, London)
Defining the Terms of Motion in Hobbes's Natural philosophy
Afternoon Session I
Chair: Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
14.00-15.00 John Henry (University of Edinburgh)
Galileo, Hobbes, and the Physics of Simple Circular Motion
15.00-16.00 Douglas Jesseph (University of South Florida)
Hobbes on the Foundations of Natural Philosophy
Afternoon Session II
Chair: Luc Borot (MFO)
16.30-18.00 Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Hobbes, Descartes, and Laws of Nature
Francesca Giuliano (Università del Salento)
Response to Dan Garber
Saturday 4 February, All Souls College
Morning Session I
Chair: Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
9.30-10.30 Franco Giudice (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
The Place of Optics in Hobbes's Natural Philosophy
10.30-11.30 Elaine Stroud (University of Wisconsin)
Lines of Vision: A Construction Integrating Physics, Geometry, and Psychology
Morning Session II
Chair : Daniel Garber ( Princeton University)
11.45-12.45 Philip Beeley (Linacre College, Oxford)
Experimentarian Philosophers. Hobbes's Writings on Pneumatics and their Reception by Boyle and Wallis
Afternoon Session
Chair: Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO)
14.00-15.00 Agostino Lupoli (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Hobbes’s Concept of Accident
15.00-16.00 Cees Leijenhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Causality and Representation in Hobbes's De Corpore
