一、报告题目

The Interpenetration of Philosophy and Science in the Early Modern Era

近代早期哲学与科学的相互影响

二、主讲人与主持人

报告人：斯科特·索姆斯（Scott Soames）

主持人：刘杰

三、报告时间

12月15日 18:30

四、报告地点

山东大学中心校区知新楼A座1408

五、内容简介

The lecture discusses the philosophical scientistsCopernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Boyle, and their colleagues, the philosophers Descartes, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Adam Smith, who were partly mathematicians, physicists, political scientists, psychologists, historians, and/or economists.Isaac Newton, the foremost physicist of his era, read philosophy and displayed a philosophical turn of mind in his scientific work. Adam Smith, the first modern economist, was primarily a philosopher. There was, in short, no sharp contrast between the multiple roles played by these leading thinkers. As Newton, Boyle, Descartes and Leibniz illustrated, there was no discontinuity between making contributions to physics and mathematics and making contributions to metaphysics and epistemology; nor, as Hume and Smith illustrated, was there was a discontinuity between making contributions to history and economics or, in Hume’s case, even to biology, and making contributions to moral, political, or social philosophy. The world-transforming advances of the 17th and 18th centuries in natural science, mathematics, politics, economics, and social organization were strongly influenced by the philosophers of this era.

六、主讲人介绍

斯科特·索姆斯（Scott Soames），美国人，1946年生。美国南加州大学哲学系系主任，特聘教授。主要研究语言哲学、分析哲学史。