Date: 16 April 2019

Location: ICUB Humanities, Dimitrie Brandza 1, Bucharest

The early modern period has witnessed the emergence of a new concept that played a crucial role in the foundation of the new philosophy and science, the concept of the laws of nature. The sources of this concept and its metaphysical and theological underpinnings are constantly debated in the literature. The one-day conference hosted by the ICUB Humanities aims to contribute to the ongoing discussions about this concept. Papers will explore various contexts in which the appeal to nature’s laws encouraged the spread of the new science, ranging from the first attempts in the seventeenth century, up to the eighteenth-century developments.

The conference is organized within the project Early Modern Cosmology Between “Mosaic Physics” and Mechanical Philosophy (1650-1713) (PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0710) and with the support of the ICUB Humanities.

Organizer: Mihnea Dobre (ICUB, University of Bucharest).

More details and program here.