The Sarton Centre for History of Science and the Department of Philosophy and Moral Science, Ghent University, are organising this conference at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Palais des Académies, 1 rue Ducale, Bruxelles.
23 May
10u – 10u30 Opening: Maarten Van Dyck & Lucian Petrescu (Ghent)
10u30 – 11u30 Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland): Aristotelian natural philosophy in Ficino
11u30 – 11u45 Koffiepauze
11u45 – 12u45 Daniel Andersson (Oxford University and Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj) : TBA
12u45 – 14u30 Lunchpauze
14u30 – 15u20 José Higuera (Institut d’Estudis Medievals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): The Lullian “atomism” and the problem of continuum: a logical and geometrical explanation of the constitution of the bodies
15u20 – 16u10 Zornitsa Radeva (University of Freiburg): Reading Averroes’ De substantia orbis in Renaissance Padua: two examples
16u10 – 16u30 Koffiepauze
16u30 – 17u20 Joseph Zepeda (St. Mary’s College of California): Descartes the arch-Aristotelian: The Theory of Place and Space
10u – 11u Helen Hattab (University of Houston): Alteration or Generation? Late Aristotelian Accounts of the Substantial Form
11u – 11u20 Koffiepauze
11u20 – 12u10 Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of Parma): Harvey, Descartes et le rôle de la philosophie naturelle d’Aristote dans la découverte de la circulation
12u10 – 13u Benjamin Goldberg (University of South Florida): William Harvey, Humanism, and Eclectic Aristotelianism
13u – 14u30 Lunchpauze
14u30 – 15u30 Dániel Schmal (Peter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest): The problem of Memory in Descartes and in Late Scholasticism
15u30 – 16u20 Lucio Mare (University of South Florida): Sed Magis Amicus Aristoteles: Leibniz’ Early Attempt at a Reformed Physics of the Novatores
16u20 – 16u40 Koffiepauze
16u40 – 17u40 Roger Ariew (University of South Florida): Fromondus’ Treatise on the Comet of 1618
and ‘De Cometis’ from his
Meteorology
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paolanicolas (April 29, 2013). Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period (23-24 May 2013, Bruxelles). ESEMP’s notebooks. Retrieved February 16, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/oih1