Changes in the conception and representation of space

The objective of this workshop is to examine the redefinitions of the notion of “space” between the 18th and 20th centuries across mathematics, philosophy and representational practices. This period witnessed profound transformations in the role of intuition in geometry, in the spatial imagination, marked by the transition from Euclidean to non-Euclidean frameworks, and in the concrete practices of mapping and surveying physical space.
 

We will bring together case studies from intellectual history, mathematics, and cartography to demonstrate how space functioned not only as a central object of scientific inquiry but also as a contested epistemic and cultural category.
 

The workshop will take place in the Meeting Room (124a) of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. There is no registration fee to attend the conference but, due to the capacity of the venue, attendance will be limited to those who register.

The conference was organised by Elías Fuentes Guillén (principal investigator of PragMatika) and Davide Crippa (principal investigator of Unlocking Mathematics) with the assistance of Daniela Frolíková, Radka Topinková, Klára Zelinková, Petra Hyklová, Sixtus Bolom-Kotari, Tereza Liepoldová and Daniel Kadlec, all of them members of the GA ČR Junior Star project PragMatika (23-06540M) or the Lumina quaeruntur project Unlocking Mathematics (LQ300092401).