OPTICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY Workshop 27 JULY 2007

Participants

Luciano Boschiero, luciano_boschiero@hotmail.com

Raz Chen-Morris, chenraz@mail.biu.ac.il

Mark Colyvan, mcolyvan@usyd.edu.au

Sven Dupré, sven.dupre@UGent.be

Ofer Gal, ofer@science.usyd.edu.au

John Gascoigne, j.gascoigne@unsw.edu.au

Stepher Gaukroger, stephen.gaukroger@arts.usyd.edu.au

Larissa Johnson, l.johnson@student.unsw.edu.au

Claire Kennedy, cken2282@mail.usyd.edu.au

Kiran Krishna, kkri9701@mail.usyd.edu.au

James Ley, leyjames@hotmail.com

Alan Maddox, a.maddox@usyd.edu.au

Jennifer Milam, jenmilam@arts.usyd.edu.au

Huw Price, huw@mail.usyd.edu.au

Nick Rasmussen, n.rasmussen@unsw.edu.au

Alan Salter, asal9472@mail.usyd.edu.au

John Schuster, j.a.schuster@unsw.edu.au

John Sutton, John.Sutton@scmp.mq.edu.au

Ian Wills, ian.wills@student.usyd.edu.au

Charles Wolfe, ctwolfe@science.usyd.edu.au

Schedule

9:00am. Meet for Coffee.

9:15am. First paper by Sven Dupré, Kepler’s Experiment and His Theory of Optical Imagery.

Commentator: Raz Chen-Morris

10:15am. Break for 10 min.

10:25am. Second Paper by Ofer Gal & Raz Chen-Morris, Nature’s Drawing.

Commentator: Stephen Gaukroger

11:20am. Break for 10 min.

11.30am. Third paper by John Schuster, The Development of Descartes’ Theory of Lenses 1626-37: A Sequel to the Reconstruction of His Discovery of the Law of Refraction and His Search for its Physico-Mathematical Explanation.

Commentator: Ofer Gal.

12.20pm. Break for 15 min.

12.35pm. Concluding remarks by John Sutton.

1.30pm. Lunch/High Tea.

Sound Recordings

Introduction, commentary and discussion on Sven Dupré’s paper.

Commentary and discussion on Ofer Gal & Raz Chen-Morris’s paper.

Commentary and discussion on John Schuster’s paper.

Extended Discussion.

Concluding remarks by John Sutton.

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