Talks

MONDAY 22 MAY:

  • Jean Dhombres (EHESS): Do attested historical changes in the concept of a mathematical function reveal a multiplicity of origins?
  • Emmylou Haffner (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, SPHERE): How Dedekind and Weber's edition of Riemann's collected works reshaped (some of) Riemann's texts.
  • David Waszek (IHPST, Université Paris 1): Representational change in mathematics: a case study from the history of the calculus of operations.
  • Francisco Barrios (UNAM): The «Lectures on Algebra» on Newton’s appraisal of Ancient Analysis.
  • Olivier Rey (IHPST, Univ. Paris 1): How statistics entered physics.


  • María de Lourdes Ramírez-Argonza (UAM-I): Two readings from the Morgan’s Canon in the animal behavioural sciences.
  • Alfonso Dairon Rodríguez-Ramírez (UAM-I): Charles Darwin on the mental continuity hypothesis.
  • Gaëlle Pontarotti (IHPST, Univ. Paris 1): From one century to the next: evolutionary theory facing a new science of heredity.


TUESDAY 23 MAY:

  • José Antonio Alonso, Erica Torrens & Ana Barahona (UNAM): The Representations of Human Diversity in the Age of Genomics and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.
  • Bernardo Yáñez Macías Valadez (Centro Lombardo Toledano): Some Epistemological Issues for Contemporary Biological Anthropology.
  • Alba Pérez Ruiz (Centro Lombardo Toledano): The evolutionary perspective of primate social complexity.
  • Juan Manuel Rodríguez, Ricardo Noguera & Rosaura Ruiz (UNAM): French influences in eugenics and puericulture in Mexico (1900-1930).


  • Marina Imocrante (IHPST, Univ. Paris 1, Vita-Salute San Raffaele Univ., Milan): Dealing with expansion and change in philosophy of mathematics.
  • Eduardo Noble & Max Fernández (UAM-I): The philosophy and methodology behind three definitions of the classical continuum.
  • David Rabouin (SPHERE, Univ. Paris 7): Mathematics and Philosophy in Leibniz. What's new?
  • Pierre Wagner (IHPST, Univ. Paris 1): Kinds of changes and variations in science.


WEDNESDAY 24 MAY:

  • Cecilia Bognon (IHPST, Univ. Paris 1): From Stoffwechsel to the logic of metabolism: the rise of a chemical biology.
  • Françoise Longy (IHPST, Univ. Paris 1): "Biological species": an investigative category as well as a multitask concept.
  • Jean Gayon (IHPST, Univ. Paris 1): Are population genetics models reversible?


  • Marco Panza (IHPST, Univ. Paris 1, Chapman Univ.): What does it mean for a Euclidean theorem to be general?
  • Eleonora Sammarchi (Univ. Paris 7, SPHERE): Algebraic Vs geometrical proofs in Arabic Mathematics: a case study from al-Zanjani's treatise on Algebra (13th century).
  • Antoni Malet (CNRS, Univ. Pompeu Fabra): On the social origins of the early modern arithmetization of ratio and proportionality.
  • Sébastien Maronne (Univ. Toulouse): Variations in Cartesian Geometry: 1637-1730.
  • Vincent Jullien (Univ. Nantes): The surprising paths of mathematization in the Dynamica of Leibniz.