The Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL is an interdisciplinary centre for the integrated study of science's history, philosophy, sociology, communication and policy, located in the heart of London. Founded in 1921. Award winning for teaching and research, plus for our public engagement programme. Rated as outstanding by students at every level.

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Bultitude - Science Communication
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Philosophy of Natural Science from Newton to Kant 

One Day International Workshop

Sponsored by UCL Science & Technology Studies and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science

Friday 26th March 2010
Wilkins Garden Room
University College London
Gower Street, WC1E 6BT Speakers

Robert DiSalle, University of Western Ontario
The transcendental method from Newton to Kant

Andrew Janiak, Duke University
Newton between physics and metaphysics: action at a distance reconsidered

Michela Massimi, University College London
Kant’s dynamic theory of matter in 1755, and its debt to speculative Newtonian experimentalism

Eric Watkins, University of California San Diego
Kant, Reason, and the Unity of Science

Download the provisional programme (includes abstracts).

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