Thursday, 23 April, 2009
9.00 registration and coffee
9.20 Welcome by Jacques Bos, Dept. of Philosophy
9.30 - 10.40
Richard Serjeantson (University of Cambridge):
"Seventeenth-Century Logic and Human Understanding".
Chair: Floris Cohen
11.00 - 12.10
Massimo Mugnai (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa):
"Logic and Mathematics in the Seventeenth Century."
Chair: Floris Cohen
12.10 - 13.00
Lunch
13.00 - 14.10
Martine Pécharman (CNRS-EHESS, Paris):
"Wallis and the Port Royal 'Logic' ".
Chair: tba
14.30 - 15.40
Siegmund Probst (Editorial Center of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences at the Leibniz Archive, Hannover):
"Leibniz and Wallis".
Chair: tba
16.00 - 17.10
Stephen Clucas (University of London):
"Hobbes, Logic and Scientific Thought".
Chair: tba
Friday, 24 April, 2009
9.30 - 10.40
Philip Beeley (University of Oxford):
“For want of riding the Great Horse…”
John Wallis on the importance of logic in university teaching and for scientific practice
Chair: Jason Rampelt
11.00 - 12.10
David Cram (University of Oxford):
"Logic and Grammar in the Seventeenth Century".
Chair: Jason Rampelt
12.10 - 13.00
Lunch
13.00 - 14.10
Jaap Maat (Universiteit van Amsterdam / University of Oxford):
"Defending Aristotle: singular propositions are really universal, and hypothetical syllogisms are really categorical"
Chair: Rens Bod
14.30 - 15.40
Peter Dvorak (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague):
"Wallis, Caramuel, and some Jesuit Logical Texts".
Chair: Rens Bod
16.00 - 17.10
Joint event with the Dip Colloquium
The DIP is a bi-weekly colloquium of the ILLC members at the Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. The programme of the colloquium reflects the current research interests of the group: cognition and reasoning, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics and philosophy of language.
Jennifer Ashworth (Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Waterloo, Ontario):
"Logic in Seventeenth-Century Oxford: What did Wallis contribute?"
Chair: Catarina Dutilh Novaes
17.30
Drinks at Kapitein Zeppos, offered by the Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
19.00
Conference dinner
