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Optional course „Reading Nature With Aristotle”

de | oct. 11, 2017 | Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Scoala Doctorala

Optional course „Reading Nature With Aristotle”

This is an optional course with credits, primarily intended for Master students (History and Philosophy of Science), but also open to PhD students, postdocs, and members of the Institute for Research in the Humanities. It is divided into seminars and lectures, and it runs from October 12 till November 2 (six classes of four hours each). The course focuses on the Aristotelian science of natural problems, which continues to be a most neglected area of Peripatetic thought despite having been the bedrock of influential debates up to the Enlightenment. It provides a fresh history of one philosophical genre, the problems, and it asks what does it mean to do philosophy within the confines of such epistemic vehicle. This is an excellent opportunity for a first encounter with Aristotle.

Lecturer: Stefano Gulizia (CUNY / IRH-ICUB Visiting Professor)

For more information please visit the website: https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/reading-nature-with-aristotle/

 

 

 

ÎNSCRIERILE ÎN ANUL UNIVERSITAR 2017/2018

de | oct. 11, 2017 | Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Scoala Doctorala

Până la data de 30 octombrie 2017, toți studenții sunt rugați să se prezinte la secretariat pentru înscrierea în anul universitar 2017-2018. 

Conform Art. 8 din Regulamentul privind activitatea profesională a studenţilor, înscrierea studentului se face în primele 30 de zile de la începerea anului universitar, la cererea acestuia. Studentul care nu va depune fișa de înscriere în anul universitar, la secretariatul facultății, în termenul stabilit, va fi exmatriculat.

  • Studenții din anul I vor completa și vor depune la secretariat  fișa de înscriere în an (1 exemplar) și contractul de studii (2 exemplare).

– Studenții cu vârsta de până în 26 de ani la data înmatricularii (1 octombrie 2017) vor primi legitimații pentru reducere și gratuitate pe transport.

– Studenții care ocupă locuri cu taxă vor primi carnetul de student și, după caz, legitimația numai după prezentarea chitanței / OP-ului care atestă plata taxei de studii pentru semestrul I.

  • Studenții din anii II și III vor completa și vor depune la secretariat  fișa de înscriere în an (1 exemplar). Studenții cu vârsta de până în 26 de ani (la 1 octombrie 2017) vor restitui, daca este posibil, vechile legitimații pentru a le fi eliberate legitimații noi pentru reducere și gratuitate pe transport. 

Optional intensive course „Images of the Knowledge System Pivoted Around Cosmology.”, October 17-23, 2017

de | oct. 3, 2017 | Anunturi, Avizier studenti

Optional intensive course, October 17-23, 2017

Department of Philosophy

University of Bucharest

 

Images of the Knowledge System Pivoted Around Cosmology.

A new form of codification of practical knowledge and its (practical) function from the 14th to the 17th century

Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, & Visiting Professor, IRH-ICUB October 2017)

 

Level: master and PhD students, but the course is also open to undergraduates

Language: English

Practical knowledge is the knowledge needed to produce a certain item; it can take the form of an art or mechanical object, or of the specific result of, for instance, a medical treatment or mathematical procedure. The production process of this item is always represented by a workflow, such as the construction process of a machine, the formulation of a recipe, or the creation of an algorithm. The early modern period is characterized by the incremental codification of practical knowledge into texts, diagrams, and images. Being codified, this knowledge is no longer practical but assumes more abstract forms: it becomes the new foundation of a new knowledge structure and a new knowledge system.

Based on this definition, the course/seminar will explore the process of expansion of the knowledge system that emerged during the late Middle Ages, which was based on the geocentric worldview and institutionally embedded in the newly founded European universities.

One of the mechanisms that allowed for a conceptual expansion of the knowledge system as well as for an enlargement of the social group that had access to such systems is represented by the implementation of a pictorial program in sciences that undoubtedly began during the 14th century.

The course/seminar will provide an introduction to this “renovation” process of the sciences during the late medieval epoch and early modern period by analyzing, discussing, and contextualizing images. Mirroring the process of formation of disciplines and professions, the following knowledge areas will be taken into consideration: cosmology, timekeeping, geography (cosmography), medicine, and alchemy (pharmacology).

The course/seminar is structured in five meetings, each of which will go deeper into the mentioned subjects.

Form of examination: colloquium

 

Syllabus

October 17, 2017

10-14

 Cosmology Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera and its reception
October 18, 2017

10-14

 Timekeeping Computational method used to compile calendars at the dawn of the Middle Ages
October 19, 2017

10-14

 Geography The enlargement of the geographical scale during the 13th century and during the time of the early journeys of exploration
October 20, 2017

10-14

 Medicine Institutional medical curriculum, practical medicine, and the role of astrology
October 23, 2017

10-14

 Alchemy From botanics to inorganic pharmacology: the contamination of alchemical knowledge

 

Readings

  • Valleriani, Matteo. 2017. The Tracts on The Sphere. Knowledge Restructured over a Network. In Structures of Practical Knowledge, Matteo Valleriani (ed.) 421–73. Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Chap. 3 of Siraisi, G. Nancy. 1990. Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine. An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Chap. 5 of Principe, Lawrence M. 2013. The Secrets of Alchemy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Extra readings can be assigned in class