The Princeton-Bucharest Virtual Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy: program for Tuesday, September 21
The Princeton-Bucharest Virtual Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy: program for Spring 2021
The Princeton-Bucharest Virtual Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is very pleased to announce its program for Spring 2021.
Seminars are generally on Tuesday, 1PM Princeton time and 8PM Bucharest time, and last two hours. (The exception is on March 2.) The Zoom link is the same one used for the series in Fall 2020. If you need the Zoom link, please write us at: princetonbucharestseminar@gmail.com.
Abstracts will be available on our website in the week before each program.
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PROGRAM
Feb 2nd: Delphine Antoine-Mahut (IHRIM, ENS de Lyon), Leo Catana (Copenhagen), Mogens Lærke (CNRS, Maison Française d’Oxford): Studies in the History of the History of Philosophy. A discussion on occasion of the BJHP special issue Historiographies of Philosophy 1800-1950 (vol. 28:3, 2020).
Feb 9th: Alessandro Becchi (University of Florence), Osvaldo Ottaviani (University of Milan): Leibniz on Corporeal Substance and Organism: Between A Priori Reasoning and Empirical Evidence
Feb 16th: Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania), Daria Drozdova (HSE University, Moscow), Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University), Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University): Exclusion and Inclusion in the History of Philosophy
Feb 23rd: Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland), Elisabeth Blum (Palacký University Olomouc), Tomáš Nejeschleba (Palacký University Olomouc), Martin Žemla (Charles University, Prague): Panpsychism in the Renaissance
March 2nd: Laura Kotevska (University of Sydney) and Raffi Krut-Landau (University of Pennsylvania): Parallel Influences: Ancient Greek Geometry in the Port-Royal Logic and Spinoza’s Ethics [This seminar is 1:30 Princeton time, 8:30 Bucharest time]
March 9th: Julie Walsh (Wellesley College) and Eric Stencil (Utah Valley University): “‘Say not that you are a light unto yourself’: Seventeenth Century Conceptions of Humility in Epistemology and Politics
March 16th: Anna Corrias (University of Toronto), Matthew Leisinger (York University), Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto): panel on Ralph Cudworth
March 23rd: Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest), Andreas Hüttemann (Köln University), Nicholas Westberg (Boston College): panel on Descartes and Cartesianism
March 30th: Luis Ramos-Alarcón (UACM), Jack Stetter (Loyola University New Orleans), Jacob Zellmer (University of California, San Diego): panel on Spinoza
April 6th: Stephanie Koerner (Liverpool University), Susanna Cecilia Berger (USC), Glenn W. Most (University of Chicago), Edward Wouk (University of Manchester): Picturing Wonder – Rendering the Counter-Intuitive Visible in Early Modern Philosophy
April 13th: Jonathan Egid (King’s College London), Dwight Lewis (University of Central Florida: panel on Anton Wilhelm Amo and Zera Yacob
April 20th: Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Paul Lodge (University of Oxford): Hadot, Spiritual Exercises, and Philosophy as a Way of Life
April 27th: J. Brian Pitts (University of Cambridge) & Andrew Chignell (Princeton University): panel on Leibniz
May 4th: Oana Matei (Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad) and Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of Bucharest): Plants in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Mechanico/Chymical Investigations
4-th Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy
The Center for the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science is organizing its fourth graduate conference for advanced master and PhD students working on early modern philosophy and on the history and philosophy of science. The event will be held on May 10-11, 2013 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest (Splaiul Independenţei, 204).
Invited speakers:
- Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge),
- Peter Anstey (University of Sydney)
- Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest)
Participants:
- Daniel Collette (University of South Florida)
- Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest)
- Matthew Keeler (Texas Tech University)
- Lucio Mare (University of South Florida)
- Bennett McNulty (University of California, Irvine)
- Michael Misiewicz (King’s College London)
- Ville Paukkonen (University of Helsinki)
- Dan Savinescu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj)
- Daniel Schwartz (University of California San Diego)
- Monica Solomon (University of Notre-Dame)
- Aaron Spink (University of South Florida)
- Sarah Tropper (King’s College London)
- Dragoş Vădana (New Europe College)
- Julia Weckend (University of Reading)
Program Committee: Mihnea Dobre, Dana Jalobeanu, Sorin Costreie, Sorana Corneanu
Organizing Committee: Dana Jalobeanu, Claudia Dumitru, Mihnea Dobre.
Programme:
Friday, May 10
9.00-9.30: Opening address, coffee
9.30-10.30: Richard Serjeantson: ‘Francis Bacon and the “Interpretation of Nature” in the Late Renaissance’
10.30-10.50: Coffee Break
10.50-11.30: Daniel Schwartz (University of California San Diego): Crucial Instances and Bacon’s Quest for Certainty
11.30-12.10: Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest): Crucial Experiments and Demonstrative Induction in Newton’s New Theory about Light and Colors
12.10-13.20: Lunch
13.20-14.00: Monica Solomon (University of Notre-Dame): Newton’s Mathematical Time Remains Hidden in Plain Sight
14.00 – 14.40: Lucio Mare (University of South Florida): Leibniz’ Soul Pointilism: from the Resurrection of Body to the Indestructibility of Bugs
14.40-15.00: Coffee Break
15.00-15.40: Sarah Tropper (King’s College, London): What ‘Matter’ Might Have Been for the Young (and Older) Leibniz
15.40-16.20: Julia Weckend (University of Reading): Leibniz on Ordinary Objects
16.20-16.40: Coffee Break
16:40-17.20: Ville Paukkonen (University of Helsinki): Berkeley’s Notion of Notion
17:20-17:30: Coffee Break
17:30-18:30: Vlad Alexandrescu: Some Remarks of an Intellectual Historian Facing a Herculean Task: Translating Anew Descartes’ Correspondence.
Saturday, May 11
9.30-10.30: Peter Anstey: The Problem of Necessity in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
10.30-10.50: Coffee Break
10.50-11.30: Mike Misiewicz (King’s College, London): “The ‘geology’ of the Short Treatise: Tracing the evolution of Spinoza’s conception of the mind-body relationship”
11.30-12.10: Daniel Collette (University of South Florida): Pascal, Spinoza, and Defining “Cartesianism”
12.10-13.20: Lunch
13.20-14.00: Aaron Spink (University of South Florida): Descartes and the Eternal Truths
14.00 – 14.40: Max Gavrilciuc (University of Bucharest): The Angelic Mind in Descartes’ Replies to Burman and Henry More
14.40-15.00: Coffee Break
15.00-15.40: Dragos Vadana (New Europe College): The Innate Idea of God and the Limits of Natural Theology: Descartes and Voetius
15.40-16.20: Dan Savinescu (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj): Plurality of Worlds and Philosophy of Language in the Writings of John Wilkins
16.20-16.40: Coffee Break
16:40-17:20: Matthew Keeler (Texas Tech University): Reid and the Representational Theory of Mind
17.20-18.00: Bennett McNulty (University of California, Irvine): Rehabilitating the Regulative Use of Reason. Kant on Empirical and Chemical Laws
Call For Papers: The 3rd Edition of Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy
The Center for the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science organizes its
third postgraduate conference for advanced master and PhD students working
on early modern philosophy and on the history and philosophy of science. The
event will be held on March 22-23, 2012 at the University of Bucharest,
Romania.
Invited speakers:
Prof. Daniel Garber (University of Princeton)
Prof. Christoph Lüthy (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Dr. Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
We cordially invite graduate students to forward abstracts on any topic
related to early modern philosophy by February 5th, 2012. Abstracts should
not exceed 800 words and should be prepared for blind review. Participating
papers will be given 40 minutes (30 minutes talk, 10 minutes open
discussion). The Program Committee will notify authors of its decision by
February 13th.
Please send abstracts by email to: mailgeorgescu.laura@gmail.com
Bucharest Graduate Conference
Bucharest Graduate Conference
May 21-22, Faculty of Philosophy,
University of Bucharest, Romania