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The VUB\u2019s Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science<\/a> and the National Committee for Logic, History and Philosophy of Science <\/a>are proud to announce the international workshop<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Date:<\/b> 7 July 2014<\/p>\n Venue: <\/b>The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, Rubenszaal<\/a><\/p>\n Organizers: <\/b>Steffen Ducheyne and Jip van Besouw<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Programme:<\/b><\/p>\n 8.15-8.40 a.m.: Welcome and coffee<\/p>\n 8.40-8.45 a.m.: Introduction by Steffen Ducheyne (Free University Brussels)<\/p>\n 8.45-9.30 a.m.: Lecture by Gerhard Wiesenfeldt (University of Melbourne): \u2018Local traditions in the making of Dutch Newtonianism\u2019<\/p>\n 9.30-10.15 a.m.: Lecture by F. J. Dijksterhuis (University of Twente): \u2018German traces in Dutch experimental philosophy\u2019<\/p>\n 10.15-10.45 a.m.: Coffee break<\/p>\n 10.45-11.30 a.m.: Lecture by Steffen Ducheyne (Free University Brussels) \u2018Aspects of Petrus van Musschenbroek\u2019s appropriation of Newton\u2019s natural-philosophical methodology\u2019<\/p>\n 11.30-12.00 a.m.: Presentation by Jip van Besouw (Free University Brussels) of the FWO-funded research project \u2018In the footsteps of Isaac Newton? W. J. \u2019s Gravesande\u2019s scientific methodology\u2019<\/p>\n 12.00-13.45 p.m.: Lunch break<\/p>\n 13.45-14.30 p.m.: Lecture by Anne-Lise Rey (Universit\u00e9 de Lille I): \u2018Probability, moral certainty and evidence in Willem \u2019s Gravesande\u2019s natural philosophy\u2019<\/p>\n 14.30-15.15 p.m.: Lecture by Tammy Nyden (Grinnell College, Iowa) \u2018Experiment\u2019s journey at Leiden: From compromise to justified scientific method\u2019<\/p>\n 15.15-15.45 p.m.: Coffee break<\/p>\n 15.45-16.30 p.m.: Lecture by Ad Maas and Tiemen Cocquyt (Boerhaave Museum, Leiden): \u2018The truth in a layer of clay: A replication of \u2019s Gravesande\u2019s vis viva experiment\u2019<\/p>\n 16.30-17.00 p.m.: Concluding remarks by Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and Leiden University)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Abstracts:<\/b> download PDF here<\/a>.<\/p>\nEarly Eighteenth-century Experimental Philosophy in the Dutch Republic.<\/strong><\/h2>\n