SCFS Workshop: The Berlin Academy
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science Workshop
Workshop | “The Berlin Academy”
The forthcoming workshop on The Berlin Academy will examine the socio-political context of the Academy, the philosophical methodology of the academicians and their ongoing debate over the origins of language. As such, this workshop will provide a useful entrée into the life and activities of the Berlin Academy, an institution that remains under-appreciated and under-studied in Anglophone scholarship.
Program
- 10.00 The Berlin Academy and the ‘spirit of systems’
Peter Anstey (Sydney) - 11.00 Embodied Cognition: Condillac on the Language of Action and the Language of Words
Anik Waldow (Sydney) - 12.00 Lunch
- 13.30 Language and Enlightenment: On the ‘Genius of Languages’ from Condillac to Herder
Jennifer Mensch (Western Sydney) - 14.30 Coffee
- 15.00 Autonomy and Patronage: Science, Academy and Monarchy between Paris and Berlin
Marco Storni (Ca’ Foscari, Venice) - 16.00 Close
Where
The Kevin Lee Room
Quadrangle A14
The University of Sydney
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More information:
For more information please contact Professor Peter Anstey
Sponsor: Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
The Department of Philosophy is part of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).