EMPHASIS

Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar

The EMPHASIS seminar focuses on the history of early modern philosophy (broadly construed), and the history of early modern science (including the occult sciences). It is one of the only seminars in London which addresses these themes together.

Venue: Online via Zoom
Time: Saturdays, 14:00
Convenors: Dr Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)

Term 1- Autumn 2022

22 oct 2022

Descartes in the classroom: Henry More, Thomas Clarke and Anne Conway

Sarah Hutton (University of York)

Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

26 nov 2022

‘Mathesis Ingenium Acuit’: John Wallis's Analogies and (Common) Centres of Gravity

Xiaona Wang (University of Warwick)

Zoom

10 dec 2022

Salvation in English Catholic scholarship: Reconsidering the philosophies of Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas White, and Franciscus à Sancta Clara

Niall Dilucia (University of Cambridge)

Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Term 2- Winter 2023

28 jan 2023

Marsilio Ficino and Theurgy

Merlin Cox (Warburg Institute)

Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

18 feb 2023

Imagining and experiencing the Great Pox in Renaissance Italy

John Henderson (HCA, Birkbeck)

Online- via Zoom

11 mar 2023

Intersubjectivity and the Senses in the late 18th Century: The Case of Henry Moyes (1750-1807)

Alexander Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University)

Hybrid | Online via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2023

15 apr 2023

Borelli versus Gassendi on the nature of moving forces

Carla Rita Palmerino (Raboud University)

Zoom

13 may 2023

Hydraulic philosophy in early modern European cities

Davide Martino (St John's College, University of Cambridge)

Zoom

03 jun 2023

The Symphonic Unknowable: The Book of Job and Early Modern Science

Kevin Killeen (University of York)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

01 jul 2023

Emblema, Symbola, Hieroglyphica in the Works of Michael Maier

Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam)

Online-via Zoom & Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU