H&PCC 2022

Conference in History and Philosophy of Cosmology

University of Milan

12-17 September 2022

Program  

Monday, 12 September 

12:00 – 14:00 Registration

14:00 – 14:15 Welcome and Introduction

14:15 – 15:30 Martin Bojowald (Penn State) “The cycles of bouncing cosmology”

Coffee Break 

16:00 – 17:15  Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh) “The explanatory role of dark matter”

  17:30 – 19:00 Book Symposium 

Laura Follesa (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling: Sullo spirito della filosofia platonica. 

Il Timeo di Platone: Commento manoscritto del 1794 

(Series: Filosofia/Scienza n. 33) 

Milan: Mimesis, 2022 

Discussants: Elena Polledri (University of Udine), Filippo Forcignanò (University of Milan), Federico Maria Petrucci (University of Turin) 

Moderator: Silvia De Bianchi (University of Milan)

Tuesday, 13 September 

10:00 – 11:15  Daniele Oriti (LMU Munich) “Cosmology as quantum gravity hydrodynamics, hydrodynamics as cosmology”

Coffee Break 

11:45 – 13:00  Miguel Angel Granada (University of Barcelona) “Heart, centre of the world and principle of motion: from Aristotle to Kepler” 

*****

Working group meetings 

14:30 – 16:00  GROUP I

16:00 – 17:30  GROUP II

17:30 – 19:00  GROUP III

Wednesday, 14  September 

10:00 – 11:15  David W. Pankenier (Lehigh University) “Chinese Astronomy and Cosmology: a tour d’horizon in Five Chapters”

Coffee Break 

11:45-13:00   Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts University) “Eternal inflation and the beginning of the universe”

*****

Working group meetings 

14:30 – 16:00  GROUP I

16:00 – 17:30  GROUP II

17:30 – 19:00  GROUP III

Thursday, 15 September 

10:00 – 11:15  Barbara Sattler (RUB Bochum) “The mathematisation of the universe – Its beginnings with Plato’s Timaeus

Coffee Break 

11:45 – 13:00 Chris Smeenk (Western University) “The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory”

*****

Working group meetings 

14:30 – 16:00  GROUP I

16:00 – 17:30  GROUP II

17:30 – 19:00  GROUP III

Conference Dinner 

Friday, 16 September 

Working group meetings 

9:30 – 11:00 GROUP I

11:00 – 12:30 GROUP II

12:30 – 14:00 GROUP III

*****

14:00 – 15:15 Niccolò Guicciardini (University of Milan) “Newton’s Hypotheses in the Proof of the Copernican System” 

15:30 – 16 :45 Gabrielle Vail (UNC – Chapel Hill)  “Cosmology and Creation Stories from the Northern Maya Lowlands”

Coffee Break 

17:15 – 18:30  Susan Milbrath (University of Florida) “The Mesoamerican Venus Cult of the Feathered Serpent in Historical Context”

Saturday, 17 September      

9:30-10:15 Panel Group I – presentation of results

10:15-11:00 Panel Group II – presentation of results

Coffee Break 

11:30-12:15 Panel Group III – presentation of results

12:15-13:00 Launch of the Digital Archive “Timaeus and Its Legacy” (PROTEUS Research Team)