Thursday, March 27, 2025:
>> 12:00 – 2:00 | Lunches
>> 3:30 – 4:30 PM | Matt Ashley (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
- Talk Title: “Teilhard de Chardin, Secular Theologian?: Teilhard’s Science and the
Theological Imagination”
>> 5:00 – 7:00 PM | Reception (Scholars Lounge)
Friday, March 28, 2025:
>> 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast & Coffee Cart (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
>> 9:00 – 11:00 AM | Short Paper Session 1 (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
- Fernández Pinto, “Eyes, boats, and maps: Navigating metaphors in philosophy of science”
- Carolyn Scearce, “Imagination and Terror: The Case of Condorcet”
- Matt Gummess, “AC/DC: An Analogical Interpretation of Bachelard’s Epistemology”
>> 11:00 – 11:30 AM | Break
>> 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Alan Rocke (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
- Talk Title: “The Creative Imagination in Science: Perspectives from the History of Chemistry”
>> 12:30 – 2:00 PM | Lunch (Hesburgh Library, Scholars Lounge)
>> 2:00 – 3:30 PM | Short Paper Session 2 [Boantza, Hayden] (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
- Victor Boantza: “Imaginative Mechanism: The Role of Fluids in Robert Boyle’s Operative Epistemology
- Anna Hayden: “From Receipts to Religion: The Alchemical Possibilities of Hester Pulter’s Poetry.”
>> 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Coffee Cart Break
>> 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Mary Baine Campbell (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
- Talk Title: TBA
>> 5:00 – 6:00 PM | Poster Session (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
Saturday, March 29, 2025:
>> 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Breakfast & Coffee Cart (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
>> 9:30 – 11:00 AM | Short Papers (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
- Max Fennell-Chametzky, “The Problem of Primate Minds: Imagination as Science in the Era of Ape Language, 1971-1992”
- Esther Ople Ruehle Berry, “Imagination and Anxiety in Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy“
>> 11:00 – 11:30 AM | Break
>> 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Michael Stuart (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)
- Talk Title: “A Pragmatist Epistemology of Scientific Imagination”
>> 12:30 – 1:30 PM | Lunch (Scholars Lounge)
>> 1:30 – 3:00 PM | Panel Discussion (Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium)