28 June 2023

8:00 Registration

9:00-9:30 Opening:

Elena Canadelli (President of SISS), Vincenzo Fano (President of SILFS), Roberto Ferrari (Director of Museo Galileo), Paolo Galluzzi (Honorary President of Museo Galileo), Emidio Spinelli (President of SFI)

9:30-9:45 Michele Camerota (University of Cagliari), Una nuova edizione de Il Saggiatore

9:45-10:45 Invited speaker: Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University), Creators, as Historians of Science Are. Philosophical Perspectives on the History of Science in the Light of The Assayer by Galileo Galilei

Coffee break

Microcosm and Macrocosm

Chair: Matteo Martelli

11:05-11:45 Marco Sanchioni, Reichenbach’s Forgotten Argument

11:45-12:25 Alessandro Amabile, A New Look at the Antikythera Mechanism

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Chair: Natacha Fabbri

14:30-15:10 Tommaso Ghezzani, The “World Theatre” of Marsilio Ficino and Juan Luis Vives

15:10-15:50 Matteo Bedetti and Valerio di Lauro, Could the Concept of Shadow Biosphere Be an Answer to the N=1 Problem?

Bodies and Evolution of the Mind

Chair: Francesco Bianchini

15:50-16:30 Cristiano Calì, A Possible Interaction between Microcosm and Macrocosm. A Historical-philosophical Reinterpretation of the Problem of Mental Causality

16:30-17:10 Mario Schärli, Galilei’s Annihilation of Colours

Coffee break

Chair: Fiorenza Toccafondi

17:30-18:10 Claudio Davini, Etiological Naturalism in Medicine: A Shaky Project

18:10-18:50 Margherita Schellino, From Physics to Metaphysics: the Dissection of the World in Lorenzo Bellini’s Discorsi di anatomia (1696)

20.00 Social dinner. Location: Libreria Brac, Via dei Vagellai 18r, Florence. Please note that the cost of the social dinner (30 Euro per person) is not included in the registration fee.

29 June 2023

9:00-9:30 Alessandra Lenzi (Museo Galileo), Paolo Rossi’s Legacy: His Personal Library and Papers Preserved at the Museo Galileo Library

Ancients and Moderns

Chair: Gaspare Polizzi

9:30-10:10 Flavio Bevacqua, In the Library of the Father of Mineralogy: The Ancient Sources of Georgius Agricola

10:10-10:50 Sara Drioli, Galileo Galilei: Discoverer and Concealer. The Husserlian Critique of Modern Science

Coffee break

Chair: Stefano Poggi

11:10-11:50 Eugenio Villa and Giacomo Montanari, Writing in Gold and Silver. Ink Recipes from a Manuscript in the Bologna University Library

11:50-12:30 Antonia Karaisl, Heaven is a Space on Earth: Geometry in Religious Contexts in Early Modern Europe and Japan

12:30-13:30 Invited speaker: Luciano Boi (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of Paris), Geometrizzazione della fisica e natura dello spazio-tempo: da Galileo alle teorie contemporanee

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Matter and Measurement

Chair: Pierluigi Graziani

15:15-15:55 Alessandro Demichelis and Piero Avitabile, Bridging the Gap between Information and Trust in Scientific Communication

15:55-16:35 Giovanni Galli, Languages Models: a Wittgensteinian Guide to Machine Learning

Coffee break

Chair: Filippo Camerota

16:55-17:35 Corentin Fève, Intensive Reality and Differential Calculus as Conditions of Measurability in Hermann Cohen

17:35-18:15 Ilenia Russo, The Concept of Matter as Bodily Mass in the Different Editorial Stages of Telesio’s «De rerum natura»

30 June 2023

9:00-9:30 Ferdinando Abbri (University of Siena), I contesti della conoscenza: Paolo Rossi (1923-2012) tra storia della filosofia e storia delle idee

9:30-10:30 Invited speaker: Massimo Mugnai (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa), Logic in Europe after Galileo and Descartes: Honoré Fabri (1607-1688) and Gerolamo Saccheri (1667-1733) between scholastic logic and mathematics 

Methods, esprit de finesse and esprit de géométrie

Chair: Matteo Galletti

10:30-11:10 Mariaceleste Di Meo, From Galileo to the Cimento: Connections between the New Science and Baldinucci’s Notizie de’ professori del disegno

Coffee break

11:30-12:10 Ivan Malara, Galileo as a Reader of Ptolemy: Notes for the 400th Anniversary of the Saggiatore (1623)

Chair: Vincenzo Fano

12:10-12:50 Andrea Sabatini, Abduction as Deductive Saturation

12:50-13:30 Stefano Furlan, John Wheeler as Reader of Galileo and the Book of Nature

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Social World

Chair: Elena Canadelli

15:15-15:55 Elisa Palomino, Dis-robing the Guardaroba: The Arctic as Viewed from Florence

15:55-16:35 Daniele Musumeci, Problems and Theoretical Models of Explanation Emerging from History of Volcanology

Coffee break

Chair: Gustavo Cevolani

16:55-17:35 Elena Danieli, Contre Nature: the Debate on Natural and Unnatural Birth in Late 18th Century France

17:35-18:15 Sara Francescato, “All is Dao”: Reformulating our Ideas and Approach Towards the Environment Through a Daoist Perspective

                                      Invited speakers