Seminars
Time and Cosmogony in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

22-23 October 2019

Organizers: Silvia De Bianchi and Daniel Vázquez

Sala d'Actes, Department of Philosophy - Campus UAB

Program Tuesday 22nd October Sala d’Actes – Philosophy Dept. UAB   10:30-10:45 Introduction, program information/changes 10:45-11:45 Barbara Sattler “Chronos as all-encompassing – Plato’s Unification of Time” 12:00-13:00 Viktor Ilievski “The Demiurge and […]

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The philosophical underpinning of the absorber theory of radiation

30 May 2019 11.30 am

Marco Forgione (University of South Carolina)

Department of Philosophy, Building B Room B7/1140 Campus UAB

Abstract This talk deals with the absorber theory of radiation by (Wheeler and Feynman, 1945) and (Wheeler and Feynman, 1949) and advances the idea that the theory is grounded on […]

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Kant on the Foundations of Mathematics and Cosmology. What Legacy for German Idealism and Beyond?

17-18 September 2019

Organizers: Silvia De Bianchi, Federico Viglione

Sala d'Actes (Department of Philosophy, Campus UAB)

Program Tuesday 17th September Sala d’Actes – Philosophy Dept. UAB 10.30 – 10.45 Introduction, program information/changes 10.45 – 11.45 Lisa Shabel: “Kant’s Schematism” 12.00 – 13.00 Federico Viglione: “The mathematical antinomies: […]

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Persistence in Stability

14 March 2019, 3pm

Dr. Florian Fischer, University of Siegen

Department of Philosophy, Building B Room B7/1140 Campus UAB

Cosmological Models in Plato and Ancient Stoicism

9 April 2019, 2.30pm

Prof. Francesco Fronterotta, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Dr. Michele Alessandrelli, CNR ILIESI

Department of Philosophy, Building B Room B7/1140 Campus UAB

** NEW DATE – THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED ON APRIL 9, 2019 ** Generation as μίμησις and κόσμος as μίμημα: cosmological model, productive function and the arrangement of the χώρα […]

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