The event organised by Dana Jalobeanu (Technische Universität Nürnberg), Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Mogens Laerke (CNRS, IHRIM/MFO) and Alan Stewart (Columbia University) as part of the NOTCOM activities programme. The workshop focuses on key-questions relating to the idols of the mind, Bacon’s new sciences, the organisation of knowledge and the new methods of inquiry proposed in the De augmentis scientiarum.

November 6
11.00-11.30. Introduction: Stéphane van Damme, Dana Jalobeanu, Mogens Lærke
11.30-13.00. Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), Francis Bacon and John Case on defending, supporting, and reforming universities
Chair: Niall Dilucia (CNRS, MFO)
13.00-14.00. Lunch
14.00-16.00. Alan Stewart (Columbia), On translating De augmentis scientiarum: Challenges and discoveries
Chair : Miklos Redei (UTN, Nuremberg/ LSE, London)
16.00-16.30. Coffee
16.30-18.00. Round-table discussion moderated by Claudia Dumitru (Yale), De augmentis scientiarum and the ‘world of sciences’

November 7
9.30-11.00. Dana Jalobeanu (UTN, Nuremberg/University of Bucharest), Poetics, mythography and philosophy according to the parables in De augmentis scientiarum
Chair: Robert Illife (Linacre, Oxford)
11.00-11.30. Coffee
11.30-12.30. Louis Rouquayrol (CNRS, IHRIM), Bacon, Descartes, and the Duty to Know
Chair : Michael Jaworcyn (CNRS, MFO)
12.30-14.00. Lunch
14.00-16.00. Daniel Garber (Princeton), De augmentis scientiarum, method and historia literata
Chair: Susan Paul (Princeton)
16.00-16.30. Coffee
16.30-18.00. Round-table discussion moderated by Mogens Laerke (CNRS, IHRIM/MFO).