Organisers: Dr Stephen Clucas (s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk) and Dr Peter J. Forshaw (p.forshaw@bbk.ac.uk).
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. Click here for the full programme and series archives.
All meetings: Saturdays, 2.00-4.00pm. Refreshments provided. PLEASE NOTE: THESE SEMINARS ARE VERY POPULAR AND THE MEETING ROOM IS OFTEN VERY FULL. |
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Click here for information about the new Stewart House seminar rooms.
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16 October 2010
(Saturday)
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Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Renaissance Natural History:
Fabian Kraemer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin): 'Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Twofold Pandechion: Collecting Words and Images in Late Sixteenth-Century Natural History';
Angela Fischel (Humboldt Universität, Berlin): 'Connecting things, words and images: Strategies of gaining and circulating knowledge in sixteenth-century natural philosophy'
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06 November 2010
(Saturday)
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Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen): ' "Vain Philosophy": A 17th century Theme'
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04 December 2010
(Saturday)
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Venue: STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Rethinking Representation in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
Alexander Wragge-Morley (HPS, University of Cambridge): 'Force and Signification in Natural History, 1650-1720';
Florence Grant (Kings College, London): 'Style and experiment in eighteenth-century natural philosophy'
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08 January 2011
(Saturday)
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Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
History and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries:
Per Landgren (University of Gothenburg, Visiting scholar at Oxford): 'Natural History and the Aristotelian Concept of History'; Dmitri Levitin (University of Cambridge): 'Pious corpuscularians and idolatrous Aristotle: Robert Boyle on the history of philosophy'
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05 February 2011
(Saturday)
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Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Soul and Intellect in the Seventeenth Century:
Michael Edwards (Jesus College, Cambridge): 'Time and the passions of the soul';
Daniel Andersson (Oxford): ‘Intellectual virtues in late seventeenth-century England'
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05 March 2011
(Saturday)
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Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Penelope Gouk (University of Manchester): 'Music and the emergence of experimental science'
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16 April 2011
(Saturday)
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Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Occult Philosophy in the Renaissance
Didier Kahn (Sorbonne, Paris IV/CNRS): 'Gerard Dorn and the pseudo-Paracelsian tract Monarchia Triadis in unitate (1577)';
Jean Pierre Brach (École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris): 'Currents and aspects of Number Symbolism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries'
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07 May 2011
(Saturday)
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Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Anna Maria Roos (Oxford): 'Spiderman: Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712) and early modern theories of insect vectors and disease'
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04 June 2011
(Saturday)
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Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh): Title tbc.
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