[PhilPhys] CFP: Newton and Empiricism

[Center for Philosophy]

Newton and Empiricism
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
10-11 April 2010

Invited Speaker: Lisa Downing (Ohio State)
Program Committee: Zvi Biener (Western Michigan University), J. E. McGuire 
(University of Pittsburgh), and Eric Schliesser (University of Leiden)

Call for papers

Isaac Newton and John Locke are sometimes portrayed as dual fathers of the 
British Enlightenment, with Newton providing the exemplar of human knowledge 
and Locke providing the philosophical infrastructure required for 
understanding the merit and reach of that exemplar. Yet their union was 
neither simple nor unchallenged. Newton's empiricism developed while 
defending and revising his Principia against philosophical critique, and 
Locke's hospitability to Newtonian gravity and realization of Newton's 
achievement developed through successive drafts of the Essay and other 
texts. Moreover, similar complexity exists in the work of Newton's and Locke's 
intellectual heirs. This conference will focus on the compatibility and 
incompatibility, tensions, and developing relations between Newton, Locke, 
and their successors in Newtonianism and Empiricism.

The conference will take place on 10-11 April 2010 at the Center for 
Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. Possible conference 
participants should note that Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen) will 
deliver an Annual Lecture Series talk for the Center for Philosophy of 
Science on the afternoon of 9 April 2010. Conference participants are 
encouraged to attend.

Partial travel stipends will be available for young scholars, who are highly 
encouraged to submit abstracts.

The deadline for submitting abstracts (of approximately 750 words) is 1 
December 2009. Email submissions are highly encouraged and can be sent to 
Zvi Biener at:
zvi.biener at wmich.edu.  If you do not receive confirmation of receipt of your 
abstract within a week, please resubmit or contact the organizers.

For updates, visit the Center Web site:  www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr
 

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