EMPHASIS Seminar

The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) is to provide a London forum for scholars working in the history of philosophy, intellectual history and the history of science of Europe in the period 1400-1650. The term 'philosophy' is interpreted in its fullest Renaissance sense, and includes such themes as: Neoplatonism, scholasticism and late Aristotelian philosophy, Epicureanism, stoicism, scepticism, cosmological theories, the classification of the disciplines, encyclopaedism, Lullism, the art of memory, the philosophy of mathematics, theories of the soul, theories of language and signs, etc.

All meetings: Saturdays, 2.00-4.00pm: Stewart House, 32 Russell Square
Refreshments provided.

PROGRAMME 2008-2009

4 October 2008: Room ST273 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Sven Dupré (University of Ghent)
'Material culture and the pursuit of natural knowledge in early-seventeenth century Antwerp'

25 October 2008: Room ST273 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Ian Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia)
'Kant’s Cosmopolitanism from a Historical Viewpoint'

1 November 2008: Room ST273 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Johannes Machielsen (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
'Demonology 101? Magic and the University of Leuven'

6 December 2008: Room ST273 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Stephen Pumfrey (University of Lancaster)
'Galileo, Liar: Theory Ladenness, Lunar Theory and the Lunatic History of "Galileo's Last Great Discovery"'

10 January 2009: Room ST273 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Aurélien Ruellet (Université de Tours)
'Patterns and networks in the patronage of mathematics (France-England, 1625-1661)'

7 February 2009: Room ST273 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Nicholas Jardine and Natalie Kaoukji (HPS, Cambridge)
'Wilkins's enigmatic astronomical engraved titlepage'

7 March 2009: Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Marcos Martinón-Torres (University College, London)
'Hands-on research: early modern chymistry and modern archaeology'

14 March 2009: Room CLO 204, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College
Richard Yeo (Griffith University)
'Remembering and Thinking with Notes: Robert Boyle (and others)'

4 April 2009: Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Adam Mosley (University of Swansea)
'Heaven on Earth: Cosmography and the Divine'

2 May 2009: Room ST273 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Angus Gowland (University College, London)
'Melancholy and dreaming in Renaissance learning'

6 June 2009: Room ST273 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor, 32 Russell Square)
Rob Ralley (HPS, Cambridge)
'Climacteric years: astrology and ageing in early modern England'

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