Workshop: History of the Concepts of Space

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THE HISTORY OF THE CONCEPTS OF SPACE

Workshop
to be held on April 18-19, 1997
at SUNY Buffalo

Sponsored by: Department of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Science and
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University at
Buffalo

Further information from Barry Smith, phismith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Program:
Friday 18 April 1pm-6pm

Istvan Bodnar (Philosophy, Buffalo/Budapest)
ANCIENT THEORIES OF SPACE

Paul Cornish (Political Science, Buffalo)
ST. AUGUSTINE'S CRITIQUE OF EMPIRE: A DEFENSE OF SMALL REPUBLICS

Barry Smith and Leonardo Zaibert (Philosophy, Buffalo)
THE STATE AS WORK OF ART: THEORIES OF SPACE IN BAROQUE PHILOSOPHY

Herman Philipse (Philosophy, Leiden/Princeton)
FROM DESCARTES TO NEWTON: THE ORIGINS OF ABSOLUTE SPACE

Saturday 19 April 10am-6pm

Michael Curry
ONTOLOGIES OF SPACE AND PLACE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY GEOGRAPHIC THOUGHT

David Mark (Geography and NCGIA, Buffalo)
GEOGRAPHIC SPACE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Max Egenhofer (NCGIA, Maine)
THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS OF SPACE IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE

Adrijana Car (Geoinformation, Vienna, currently in Pittsburgh)
THE HISTORY OF SPATIAL HIERARCHIES

Achille Varzi (Columbia, New York)
THEORIES OF SPACE IN FORMAL PHILOSOPHY

David Koepsell (Philosophy, Buffalo)
THE METAPHYSICS OF CYBERSPACE
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