Author: johedesan

The first issue (Fall 2012) of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now published

A well known metaphor of the early European modernity and an important instrument in the understanding of seventeenth-century thought, the “Republic of Letters” was, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, primarily a label for new projects of intellectual and scientific association. Various models for the Republic of Letters have been investigated and described as closed circles or open networks, shaped around a variety of elements: scientific societies, intellectual networks, formal or informal circles of intellectuals, proponents of the new and old philosophies. What all such models had in common was a an ideal of shaping communities around a moral, intellectual and sometimes a religious project understood as a reformation of the (whole) human being.


This special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies brought together articles devoted to the investigation of such models of early modern communities governed by the ideal of the Republic of Letters. The issue selected papers dedicated to the exploration of various ways of disseminating and communicating knowledge within the Republic of Letters, with a special focus on the exchanges between the East and the West of Europe.


TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Articles 
Daniel Andersson, On Borrowed Time: Internationalism and its Discontents in a Late Sixteenth-Century University Library 
Noel Golvers, “Savant” Correspondence from China with Europe in the 17th-18th Centuries 
Roger Ariew, Descartes’ Correspondence before Clerselier: Du Roure’s La Philosophie 
Anne Davenport, English Recusant Networks and the Early Defense of Cartesian Philosophy 
Michael Deckard, Acts of admiration: Wondrous Women in Early Modern Philosophy 
Koen Vermeir, The Dustbin of the Republic of Letters. Pierre Bayle’s “Dictionaire” as an Encyclopedic Palimpsest of Errors 
J.B. Shank, A French Jesuit in the Royal Society of London: Father Louis-Bertrand de Castel, S.J. and Enlightenment Mathematics, 1720–1735 

Review Article 
Alexander Douglas, A Worldlier Spinoza: Susan James on the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus [Susan James. Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012]

Book Reviews 
Roger Ariew, Descartes among the Scholastics, Leiden: Brill, 2011 (Robert Arnăutu); Arnaud Milanese, Principe de la philosophie chez Hobbes. L’expérience de soi et du monde, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011 (Andrea Sangiacomo) 

Books received 
Guidelines for Authors

JEMS is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe. It aims to respond to the growing awareness within the scholarly community of an emerging new field of research that crosses the boundaries of the traditional disciplines and goes beyond received historiographic categories and concepts.


JEMS publishes high-quality articles reporting results of research in intellectual history, history of philosophy and history of early modern science, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary approaches. It furthermore aims to bring to the attention of the scholarly community as yet unexplored topics, which testify to the multiple intellectual exchanges and interactions between Eastern and Western Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.



JEMS is edited by the Research Centre “Foundations of Modern Thought”, University of Bucharest (http://modernthought-unibuc.blogspot.com/), and published and distributed by Zeta Books (http://www.zetabooks.com/).




ISSN: 2285-6382
ISBN: 978-606-8266-35-0 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-606-8266-36-7 (ebook)
Availability: Paperback & Electronic (pdf)
Publication date: 25 October 2012
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 220
Language: English

PASSIONATE MINDS

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A 11-a Conferinţă a Societăţii Internaţionale pentru Istorie Intelectuală

PASSIONATE MINDS

Knowledge and the Emotions in Intellectual History

26-28 mai 2011

Biblioteca Centrală Universitară “Carol I”, Bucureşti

Conferinta Societăţii Internaţionale pentru Istorie Intelectuală (ISIH) aduce la Bucureşti 80 de cercetători din toată lumea. Filosofi, istorici ai ideilor, istorici ai ştiinţei şi ai artei vor prezenta timp de 3 zile, in 4 secţiuni paralele, lucrări care investighează relaţia dintre cunoaştere, raţiune şi emoţii în istoria intelectuală. Conferinţa este organizată cu sprijinul Universităţii din Bucureşti, al Bibliotecii Centrale Universitare şi al Institutului Cultural Român. Printre vorbitorii invitaţi se numără Vlad Alexandrescu (Universitatea din Bucureşti), Roger Ariew (University of South Florida), Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Peter Harrison (University of Oxford), Howard Hotson (University of Oxford, preşedintele ISIH). Conferinţa va fi deschisă în 26 mai, la ora 9, de un cuvânt de deschidere rostit de Rectorul Universităţii din Bucureşti, prof. dr. Ioan Pânzaru.

ISIH

Societatea Internaţională pentru Istorie Intelectuală este o asociaţie profesională de prestigiu înfiinţată în 1994, şi care reuneşte filosofi, istorici ai ideilor, istorici ai ştiinţei, istorici ai artei sau mentalităţilor. Pentru detalii vezi: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/isih/

CONFERINŢE ISIH ANTERIOARE:

University of New Brunswick (1997); Freie Universität Berlin (1998); University of Chicago (2000); University of Cambridge (2001); University of New South Wales/University of Sydney (2002); Bogaziçi University, Istanbul (2003); University of Helsinki (2004); University of California, Davis (2005); Birkbeck, University of London (2007); University of Verona (2009).

CONFERINŢA DE LA BUCUREŞTI:

Participanţi:

80 participanţi, din care 20 români (de la Universitatea din Bucureşti, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Universitatea de Vest “Vasile Goldiş” din Arad, Universitatea “Transilvania” din Braşov, Universitatea din Ploieşti si Academia Română) si 60 străini (de la universităţi, biblioteci şi institute de cercetare din Ankara, Antwerp, Atena, Barcelona, Belgrad, Berlin, Bologna, Cardiff, Copenhaga, Cracovia, Halifax, Helsinki, Ierusalim, Koln, Macerata, Madrid, Malta, Minas Gerais, Moscova, Oxford, Paris, Patras, Pisa, Thessaloniki, Toronto, Utrecht, Viena si Statele Unite ale Americii: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Claremont, Detroit, Grinnell, Evanston, Little Rock, New Albany, New York, Northridge, Pennsylvania).

Domeniile în care se vor ţine lucrările:

Istorie intelectuală antică şi medievală, istoria intelectuala a modernităţii timpurii şi a iluminismului, istorie socială, culturală şi politică, cultură materială, psihologie, psihanaliză, evoluţionism, neuroştiinţe, fenomenologie, estetică, epistemologie.

Organizatori locali:

Sorana Corneanu, Lector în Anglistică, PhD (Universitatea din Bucureşti) şi membru ISIH

Dana Jalobeanu, Lector în Filosofie, PhD (Universitatea din Bucureşti) şi secretar general ISIH

Tema generală:

Conferinţa abordează concepţiile istorice privitoare la interacţiunea dintre cunoaştere şi emoţii, ori dintre viaţa cognitivă şi cea afectivă a indivizilor şi comunităţilor. Fie că este vorba despre dobândirea şi transmiterea cunoaşterii, despre agregarea şi reconfigurarea comunităţilor, despre relaţia individului cu sine, cu alţii ori cu divinitatea, despre educaţie şi metode pedagogice, despre expresia şi receptarea artistică, sau despre concepţia valorilor şi principiilor morale, politice şi juridice care stau la baza societăţilor – ideea după care raţiunea şi emoţiile se plasează în tabere diferite sau chiar opuse se dovedeşte insustenabilă. Noi cercetări în domeniile ştiinţei cognitive, antropologiei culturale, filosofiei morale ori teoriei literaturii şi artelor au început să depăşească această idee tradiţională şi să pună în lumină complexitatea vieţii cognitiv-afective a fiinţei umane. Istoricii ideilor sunt în măsură să aducă un aport important acestei direcţii de cercetare, prin semnalarea formelor pe care tema le-a primit în istoria gândirii şi a practicilor culturale. Istoria se poate dovedi o bogată resursă de reflecţie şi intuiţii pentru preocupările actuale. Conferinţa de la Bucureşti se doreşte a fi un forum pentru o astfel de reflecţie.

2011 Bucharest-Princeton Seminar Participants

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BUCHAREST-PRINCETON SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

2 -8 July 2011

Collaborative aspects of Early Modern Thought:

Philosophical Correspondence and the Republic of Letters

Participants:

1. Dr. Michael Funk Deckard (Lenoir-Rhyne University, North Carolina)

2. Dr. Katherine Dunlop (Brown University)

3. Dr. Alexander Xavier Douglas (Birkbeck College)

4. Grigore Vida (University of Bucharest)

5. Radu Toderici (University of Cluj)

6. Anton Matytsin (University of Pennsylvania)

7. Filip Buyse (Université de Paris I)

8. Alexandra Ansie (University of Cluj)

9. Lucian Petrescu (Ghent University)

10. Kristin Primus (Princeton University)

11. Jo Van Cauter (Ghent University)

12. Barnaby Hutchins (Ghent University)

13. Raphael Krut-Landau (Princeton University)

14. Madalina Giurgea (University of Bucharest)

15. Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest)

16. Doina Rusu (University of Bucharest and University of Nijmegen)

Staff:

1. Daniel Garber (Princeton University)

2. Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth University)

3. Igor Agostini (Università del Salento)

4. Koen Vermeir (CNRS Paris)

5. Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest)

6. Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)

7. Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest)

8. Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)


Panel Francis Bacon:

1. James Lancaster (Warburg, London)

2. Raphaele Garrod (Newnham College, Cambridge)

Bucharest-Princeton Seminar 2011


Participants

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We are happy to announce the 11th edition of the annual Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy to be held in Bran, July 2-7, 2011. The Seminar gathers together scholars interested in various aspects of early modern thought. Its aim is to create a stimulating environment for discussing papers and ideas. Traditionally, the seminar has two components: morning workshops and afternoon discussions of work-in-progress. The languages of the seminar are English and French.

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Theme of this year: Collaborative aspects of early modern thought: philosophical correspondence and the Republic of Letters

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July 2

9.30 Departure to Bran from Hotel Flowers, Plantelor str. 2, Bucharest (lunch on the way in Brașov)

17.00 Arrival in Bran (Vila Andra)

19.00 Dinner

July 3

9.30-10.30 Conference: Igor Agostini (Lecce): La correspondence Descartes-Elisabeth et la traduction Picot des Principes de la philosophie (1647)

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-13.00 Reading group (I): The Descartes-Henry More Correspondence. Convenors: Igor Agostini, Vlad Alexandrescu, Sarah Hutton

Texts: Descartes Correspondance avec Arnauld et Morus, texte latin et traduction, éd. Geneviève Lewis, Paris, Vrin, 1953, p. 94-187; english translation of Descartes’ letters in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol. III, translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch, A. Kenny, CUP, 1991, p. 360-367, 371-375, 380-382.

Link to the English file (only Descartes’ letters)| Link to the Latin-French file (all the selected letters)

13.00-15.00 Lunch break

16.00-16.35 Alexandra Anisie (Cluj): On susbtance in Bruno’s Concerning the Cause, Principle, and the One

16.35-16.50 Coffee break

16.50-17.25 Katherine Dunlop (Brown): Gassendi on the Ontological Status of Spatial Dimensions

17.25-18.00 Michael Funk-Deckard (Lenoir-Rhyne): The act of admiration: wondrous women in early modern philosophy

19.00 Dinner

July 4

9.30-10.30 Conference: Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth University): The correspondence of seventeenth-century women philosophers: Anne Conway and Damaris Cudworth Masham

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-13.00 Reading group (II): The Leibniz-des Bosses Correspondence, Convenors: Daniel Garber, Lucian Petrescu, Vlad Alexandrescu

Texts: G.W. Leibniz, The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence, latin texts and english translations, intoroduction by Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford, Yale University Press, 2007:

Leibniz to des Bosses, 15th February 1712, p. 220-235

Des Bosses to Leibniz, 20th July 1715, p. 340-347

Leibniz to Des Bosses, 19th August 1715, p. 347-357

Leibniz an des Bosses, 29th May 1716, p. 365-378

Link to file (Latin and English)

Monadologie, 1714, ed. A. Robinet, Paris, P.U.F., 2e éd., 1986

Link to the French text | Link to the English translation

13.00-15.00 Lunch break

16.00-16.35: Barnaby Hutchins (Ghent), Subvisible mechanical systems in Descartes’ late physiology

16.35-16.50 Coffee break

16.50-17.25 Alexander Xavier Douglas (Birkbeck): Dutch Cartesianism and the Separation Idea

17.25-18.00 Lucian Petrescu (Ghent): Salt, silver, oxygen. Real Qualities in Descartes’ and Fromondus’ Meteors.

19.00 Dinner

July 5

9.30-10.05 Radu Toderici (Cluj): “Communication d’imagination”: Pascal, Malebranche and the Social Transmission of Knowledge

10.05-10.40: Anton Matytsin (Pennsylvania): The Specter of Skepticism and Sources of Certainty in the Early Enlightenment Interest: philosophical and historical skepticism in the early 18th century

10.40-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-13.00 Reading group (III): The Newton-Hooke Correspondence, Convenors: Katherine Dunlop, Dana Jalobeanu, Grigore Vida

Texts: Newton\’s letter, Hooke\’s, Linus\’ and Pardies\’ letters

Link to file

13.00-15.00 Lunch break

16.00-16.35 Kristin Primus (Princeton): Immanent Causation in Spinoza’s Ethics

16.35-16.50 Coffee break

16.50 -17.25 Filip Buyse (Paris I): The Gunpowder Reaction: A Controversy between Boyle and Spinoza

17.25-18.00 Jo Van Cauter (Ghent): The betrayal of Christ: Jesus as statesman (Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus)

19.00 Dinner

July 6

9.30-10.30: Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest), Koen Vermeir (CNRS, Paris): The magician’s imagination in Francis Bacon

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-11.20 Doina Rusu (Bucharest): Baconian natural histories in the correspondence and in The Instauratio magna

11.20-11.55 Madalina Giurgea, Laura Georgescu (Bucharest): Bacon and Descartes : The Creative Role of Experiments

11.55-12.30: Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest): Francis Bacon\’s Senecan natural history of the heavens or the case of \’missing\’ natural history

12.30-13.00: Raphaele Garrod (Cambridge): Whales, Starfishes and the John Dory in Pierre Viret\’s Instruction Chrétienne (1564): From Natural Theology to Natural History?

13.00-15.00 Lunch

16.00-16.35 James Lancaster (London): Natural history of religion: a new form of natural history?

16.35-16.50 Coffee break

16.50-17.25 Mihnea Dobre (Bucharest): Jaques Rohault and Samuel Clarke

17.25-18.00 Grigore Vida (Bucharest): The Changing Fate of Newton’s Cosmology and the Interaction between Theology and Natural Science

19.00 Dinner

July 7

9.30 Departure to Bucharest


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Organized by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought (FME), University of Bucharest and the Philosophy Department, Princeton University.

Artwork for the poster (c) Thomas Albdorf, 2010

Bucharest – Princeton Seminar 2010 | Programme

Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Bran, 30 June – 6 July 2010

Non-Mechanical Philosophies in the Seventeenth Century

PROGRAMME

30 June

9.30 Departure to Bran from Hotel Flowers, Plantelor str. 2, Bucharest (lunch on the way in Braşov)

17.00 Arrival in Bran (Villa Andra)

19.00 Dinner

1 July

9.30-10.30 Conference: Dan Garber (Princeton): On the Frontlines of the Scientific Revolution: Living in Chaos

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-13.00 Reading group (I): Aristotelianism and the mechanical philosophy. Convenor: Peter Anstey (Otago)

Texts: Sennert, Thirteenth books on natural philosophy (Bk1: Ch. 1-4, 8-9, Bk 2: Ch 1-3; Bk 3: Chap: 1-2, Bk. 6 Chap. 1-2); Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, IV, 196ff; Boyle, The excellency of the mechanical hypothesis.

13.00-15.00 Lunch break

16.00-16.35 Doina Rusu (Bucharest): Imagination in Bacon’s Experimental Science

16.35-16.50 Coffee Break

16.50-17.25 Raphaële Fruet (Newnham College, Cambridge): The Bible Against Aristotle: The Hermeneutical Cosmology of Pierre de La Primaudaye and its Reception in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

17.25-18.00

19.00 Dinner

2 July

9.30-10.30 Conference: Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest): Francis Bacon\’s natural history: a contextual reading

10.30- 10.45 Coffee break

10.45-13.00 Reading group (II): Natural philosophy, natural history and magic: sympathies in Bruno, Bacon and Della Porta. Convenors: Dana Jalobeanu, Sorana Corneanu, Koen Vermeir

Texts: Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Century 10; Bruno, On magic; On bonding in general; Della Porta, Natural Magic (preface and bk 1, ch. 1-6 and 9)

13.00-15.00 Lunch break

16.00-16.35: Madalina Giurgea (Bucharest): Descartes and Charleton on mind body interaction

16.35-16.50 Coffee break

16.50-17.25 Alexandra Tavares Torero-Ibad (Liège): The importance of non mechanical philosophies in Charles Sorel’s Traité des Novateurs (1655)

17.25-18.00 Delphine Bellis (Utrecht): Vision at the Crossroads of Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Philosophy in Descartes’ Thought

19.00 Dinner

3 July

9.30-10.30 Conference: Theo Verbeek (Utrecht):

Unity and Diversity of Dutch Cartesianism: Some Considerations

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-13.00 Reading group (III): Dutch Cartesianism. Convenors: Theo Verbeek (Utrecht), Vlad Alexandrescu (Bucharest) (the reading group will be held in English and French)

Texts: lettre de Descartes à Regius de Janvier 1642, de juillet 1645 et réponse de Regius à Descartes du 23 juillet 1645; Descartes, Notae in programma quoddam, du début jusqu\’à l\’examen de l\’article six (AT VIII 347-356).

13.00-15.00 Lunch break

16.00-16.35 Lucian Petrescu (Bucharest), Descartes, Fromondus and Plempius. A game of chess and \”crass philosophy\”

16.35-16.50 Coffee break

16.50 -17.25 Dr. Koen Vermeir (CNRS, Paris): Are there limits to mechanism? Balthazar Bekker and Dutch Cartesianism

17.25-18.00 Mihnea Dobre (Bucharest): Cartesianism and Chemistry

19.00 Dinner

4 July

9.30-10.30 Conference: Vlad Alexandrescu (Bucharest): Regius and Sorbière (in French)

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-13.00 Reading group (IV): The Spirit of Nature and other active powers: More, Cudworth and Leibniz. Convenors: Dan Garber, Martine Pécharman, Koen Vermeir

Texts: More, Immortality of the Soul (bk. III, ch 12-13); Cudworth, The true intellectual system; Leibniz, Specimen Dynamicum I

13.00-15.00 Lunch break

16.00-19.00 Free afternoon

19.00 Dinner

5 July

9.30-10.30 Conference: Peter Anstey (Otago): The demise of Baconian natural history

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-13.00 Reading group (V): Leibniz and Newton. Convenors: Sorin Costreie, Ed Slowick, Katherine Dunlop

Texts: Newton, Optics, Query 31; Leibniz: Anti-barbaric philosophy; Newton, Preface to the Principia

13.00-15.00 Lunch

16.00-16.35 Grigore Vida (Bucharest): Newton on Matter Theory

16.35-16.50 Coffee Break

16.50-17.25 Edward Slowik (Winona State): Locke and Berkeley’s Epistemological Rendition of Newtonian Space

17.25-17.00

19.00 Dinner

6 July

9.30 Departure to Bucharest

Bucharest – Princeton Seminar 2010 – Reading Texts

Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Bran, June 30th – July 7th, 2010

READING TEXTS | DOWNLOAD ALL


1st of July

Aristotelianism and the mechanical philosophy

Convenor: Peter Anstey

Texts:

Sennert, Thirteenth books on natural philosophy (selected fragments) Bk1: Ch. 1-4, 8-9, Bk 2: Ch 1-3; Bk 3: Chap: 1-2, Bk. 6 Chap. 1-2

Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, IV, 196ff

Boyle, The excellency of the mechanical hypothesis, The works of Robert Boyle, ed. Hunter and Davies (2000) vol. 8, 103-116


2nd of July

Natural philosophy, natural history and magic: sympathies in Bruno, Bacon and Della Porta

Convenors: Dana Jalobeanu, Sorana Corneanu, Koen Vermeir

Texts:

Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Century 10

Bruno, On magic (in Bruno, On the cause, principle and unity, CUP 2004, 105-126, 137-142)

Bruno, On bonding in general (in Bruno, On the cause, principle and unity, CUP, 145-155)

Della Porta, Natural Magic, preface and bk 1, ch. 1-6 and 9.


3rd of July:

The Spirit of Nature and other active powers: More, Cudworth and Leibniz

Convenors: Dan Garber, Martine Pecherman, Koen Vermeir

More, Immortality of the Soul bk. III, ch 12-13 (pp. 193-204 in 1662). 
Cudworth, The true intellectual system, pp. 146-181
Leibniz, Specimen Dynamicum I. Latin Text | English Text

4th of July

Dutch Cartesianism

Convenors: Theo Verbeek, Vlad Alexandrescu

Lettre de Descartes à Regius de Janvier 1642. Original Text | English Translation


Descartes à Regius de

juillet 1645 et réponse de Regius à Descartes du 23 juillet 1645. Original Text | English Translation (only for the first letter)

Descartes, Notae in programma quoddam, du début jusqu\’à l\’examen de l\’article six (AT VIII 347-356). Original Text | English Translation


5th of July

Leibniz and Newton

Convenors: Sorin Costreie, Ed Slowick, Katherine Dunlop

Texts: Newton, Optics, Query 31.

Leibniz: Anti-barbaric philosophy: Latin Text | English Text.

Newton, Preface to the Principia: LatinText | English Text.

First Workshop of the ERC Starting Grant MOM

Francis Bacon and the Medicine of the Mind

Stoic Protestantism in Late Renaissance England

First Workshop of the ERC Starting Grant MOM

New Europe College, Bucharest

13-15 May 2010

This is the first of a series of 5 workshops and colloquia organized as a part of the 5 years ERC Grant ‘Medicine of the mind in early modern England’ by Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest) and Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest).

Participants:

Peter Harrison (Oxford University), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Koen Vermeir (CNRS), Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Joseph Wolyniak (Oxford University), Doina Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest).

Program

Thursday, 13 May: Papers

9-9.30 Short presentation of the project (Guido Giglioni, Sorana Corneanu, Dana Jalobeanu) over coffee

9.30-11.00 Peter Harrison, Francis Bacon and the Fruits of the Cultivation of the Mind

11.00-12.30 Dana Jalobeanu, Empirical aspects of medicina mentis: ‘Stoic’ natural histories of mind and body in late 16th century

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Guido Giglioni, Tacitean Stoicism or Stoic Tacitism? On Bacon’s Reception of Stoic Ideas and Its Context

15.30-17.00 Sorana Corneanu, Bacon on the ‘End of Knowledge’ and the Reconfiguration of Learning in the Late Renaissance

17.00-18.30 Round-up discussion

Friday, 14 May: Papers and Panel discussion: Bacon and the imagination

9.30-11.00 Koen Vermeir, Bacon\’s magician: projection and imagination

11.00-12.30 Doina Cristina Rusu, Imagination – Fascination and Prolongation of life

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-18.00 Panel discussion on selected texts (Bacon on imagination)

Saturday, 15 May: Panel discussion: French Protestants and Neostoicism

9.30-12.30 Panel discussion on selected texts (La Primaudaye, Du Plessis Mornay, Goulart, Wright)

12.30-14.00 Lunch

Raluca-Ioana ALEXANDRESCU


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Curriculum Vitae

Etudes

Mars 2008 Docteur ès Sciences Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest, avec la thèse « La construction et l’évolution du concept de démocratie dans la pensée politique roumaine moderne »
Juin 2007 Docteur ès Sciences Politiques de l’Université de Bologne, Faculté de Sciences Politiques
2003 — 2007 Doctorant de l’Université de Bologne, Faculté de Sciences Politiques, avec une thèse sur la pensée politique roumaine dans le contexte de la pensée politique française, dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle.
2002 — 2008 Doctorant de l’Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences Politiques, avec la thèse « La construction et l’évolution du concept de démocratie dans la pensée politique roumaine moderne »
1998 Diplôme d’études approfondies ès sciences politiques, Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences Politiques (thème de la dissertation: « Le discours néoliberal roumain, 1992-1996 »).
1997 Licence ès sciences politiques – section en langue française — l’Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Sciences Politiques. Le thème de la dissertation : « Le concept de révolution et le thème de l’égalité dans la Démocratie en Amérique d’Alexis de Tocqueville ».
1994, 1995 Participations aux écoles annuelles de droit communautaire organisées par l’Université Rennes II en collaboration avec la Faculté de Sciences Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest.
1993 Baccalauréat, lycée Jules Michelet de Bucarest, section d’études approfondies en langue et littérature française.

Activité professionnelle

Depuis 2015 Maître de conférences, Faculté de Sciences Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest.
2013-2015 Chargée de cours, Faculté de Sciences Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest.
2003-2013 Assistant, Faculté de Sciences Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest.
2003-2009 Assistant éditorial à la revue Studia Politica, Romanian Political Science Review, éditée par l’Institut de Recherches Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest
2001-2003 ATER, Faculté de Sciences Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest.
1999-2001 journaliste à la revue Observator Cultural, hebdomadaire d’information culturelle et politique.
1998-1999 journaliste à la revue 22, hebdomadaire d’information et de commentaire politique.
Cours enseignés
1998-1999 Séminaire de Philosophie politique
Depuis 2000-2001 Histoire des idées politiques de l’Antiquité au XVIIe siècle (en roumain et français).
Histoire des idées politiques, XVIIe-XIXe siècles (en roumain et français).
Méthodes de recherches en sciences politiques (en roumain et français).
Analyse politique, techniques et théories de de la démocratie (en roumain).
Pensée politique française, XIXe siècle (en français).
Pensée politique roumaine, XIXe siècle (en roumain).
Sociétés scientifiques
2005 Fellow du New Europe College
2001 Association roumaine des chercheurs francophones en sciences humaines (ARCHES)
2001 Membre fondateur du Centre de recherches « Les Fondements de la modernité européenne » de l’Université de Bucarest.
Autres activités professionnelles
2001 Assistant de l’Ecole d’été en philosophie Espaces de liberté dans la pensée moderne. Individus, projets de réforme, sociétés multiples, Tescani, 2-16 septembre, organisée par l’Association roumaine des chercheurs francophones en sciences humaines en collaboration avec le New Europe College
2003 TDP Fellow, dans le Civic Education Project, Open Society Institute, Budapest
2004 AFP fellow, auprès de HESP, Open Society Institute, Budapest
2005-2006 Bourse du New Europe College.
Din 2005 Editorialiste (commentaire politique) de la revue 22.
Liste des publications et des colloques scientifiques
Publications
Articles
· « Le thème de l’égalité chez Tocqueville », POLIS, 2/1997
· Traductions dans la revue Repere (Nos 1, 2 et 3/2003), publication trimestrielle éditée par l’Institut Français de Bucarest, les Services Culturelles de l’Ambassade de France à Bucarest, le New Europe College et l’Institut de Recherches Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest.
· « “Le convenable et le possible” – despre “democratie” la început de secol XIX românesc », Studia Politica, Romanian Political Science Review, vol. III, no. 2, 2003
· « L’ „individu” et la „démocratie” au XIXe siècle roumain », in ARCHES. Revue Internationale des Sciences Humaines, tome V, 2003, p. 143-155
· “Democratia înainte de partide”, Studia Politica, Romanian Political Science Review, vol. IV, n° 1, 2004
· « La démocratie roumaine: vocation ou exercice de volonté? » in Studia Politica, Romanian Political Science Review, vol. V, n° 3, 2005, pp. 583-605.
· « Les malaises de la modernisation roumaine. Le moment 1848 et la démocratie », in Studia Politica, Romanian Political Science Review, vol. VI, n° 4, 2006.
· « Les héritages de la pensée politique de 1848 dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle », in Studia Politica, Romanian Political Science Review, vol. VIII, n° 3, 2008.
· La production du savoir politique et la construction du concept de démocratie au XIXe siècle roumain, in Scienza & Politica – per una storia delle dottrine, no. 39, 2008, pp. 125-139.
· Les incertitudes de la démocratie sur la modernisation politique et la production intellectuelle de la démocratie au XIXe siècle roumain, in New Europe College Yearbook 2005-2006, NEC, 2009, pp. 7-17.
Volumes
· Les fondements du temps présent et les ruines mélancoliques du passé. La production du savoir politique au début du XIXe siècle roumain: pour un modèle français?, in Florin Ţurcanu (coord.), Modèle français et expérience de la modernisation. Roumanie, 19e – 20e siècles, Institut Culturel Roumain, Bucarest, 2006.
· La modernisation roumaine entre les avatars de 1848 et les influences de la démocratie occidentale au XIXe siècle, in Liviu Brătescu (coord.) Liberalismul românesc și valențele sale europene, Editions PIM, Iași, 2010.
Conférences et colloques
· Communication dans le cadre du colloque Chateaubriand et la Révolution Française, organisé par l’Institut des Etudes Sud-Est Europénnes, Bucureşti, 1994.
· Communication sur le thème des origines du concept de démocratie en Roumanie, présentée à l’Institut de Recherches Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest, mai 2003.
· Conférence sur le thème « Invention de la politique roumaine », soutenue à l’Institut de Recherches Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest, novembre 2003
· Communication sur le thème « Les sens de la démocratie et les débuts de la modernité roumaine », présentée à l’Institut de Recherches Politiques de l’Université de Bucarest, janvier 2004.
· Communication : “La science des etablissements politiques à la fin du XIXe siècle roumain”, New Europe College, Bucarest, octobre 2005.
· Communication : « Quel sens pour la démocratie ? Autour du 1848 roumain », New Europe College, Bucarest, mai 2006.
· Organisation du colloque « Démocratie, identité, nation », New Europe College, Bucarest, 22-23 mai 2006.
· Communication : « Le post-1848 roumain, entre la démocratie et le mythe national », New Europe College, Bucarest, mai 2006.
· Conférence : « Le concept de démocratie et ses rapports avec la révolution dans la pensée politique roumaine moderne », juin 2007, Université du Luxembourg, Laboratoire de philosophie pratique.
· Conférence : « Sur une fratrie de bonne foie et les débuts de la nation roumaine », Luxembourg, janvier 2008.
· Communication : « La pensée politique roumaine au XIXe siècle et sa querelle des Anciens et des Modernes », présentée au Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Mălîncrav Manor, Transylvania, organized by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest, with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute, Princeton University Department of Philosophy and the New Europe College, 28 July – 3 August 2008.

Bucharest – Princeton Seminar 2010 | Participants

Participants | Programme | Reading Texts



BUCHAREST-PRINCETON SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

30 June-6 July 2010


Non-Mechanical Philosophies
in the Seventeenth Century


Staff :

Nr.

Name

University

1.

Daniel Garber

Princeton

 TBA

2.

Theo Verbeek

Utrecht

 TBA

3.

Peter Anstey

Otago/New Zealand

 The demise of Baconian natural history

4.

Martine Pécharman

CNRS, Paris

 No

5.

Koen Vermeir

 CNRS, Paris Are there limits to mechanism? Balthasar Bekker and Dutch Cartesianism

6.

 Vlad Alexandrescu Bucharest Regius and Sorbière

7

Dana Jalobeanu

 Bucharest Francis Bacon\’s natural history: a contextual reading

8.

 Sorana Corneanu Bucharest No

9.

 Mihnea Dobre Bucharest Cartesianism and Chemistry

10.

 Sorin Costreie Bucharest No





Participants:


Nr.

Name

University

Level

Title of paper

1.

Edward Slowik

Winona State University

Professor

PhD

Locke and Berkeley’s Epistemological Rendition of Newtonian Space

2.

Alexandra Tavares Torero-Ibad

Université de Liège

Postdoctoral fellow PhD

The importance of non mechanical philosophies in Charles Sorel’s Traité des Novateurs (1655)

3.

Katherine Dunlop

Brown University

Assistant Professor, PhD

No

4.

Delphine Bellis

Utrecht University

PostDocResearcher

PhD

Vision at the Crossroads of Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Philosophy in Descartes’ Thought

5.

Lucian Petrescu

University of Bucharest

PhD Candidate

Descartes, Fromondus and Plempius. A game of chess and \”crass philosophy\”

6.

Grigore Vida

University of Bucharest

PhD Candidate

Newton on Matter Theory

7.

Raphaële Fruet

Newnham College, Cambridge

PhD Candidate

The Bible Against Aristotle: The Hermeneutical Cosmology of Pierre de La Primaudaye and its Reception in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

8.

Madalina Giurgea

Bucharest

MA Student

Descartes and Charleton on mind body interaction

9.

Doina Rusu

Bucharest

PhD Candidate

Imagination in Bacon’s Experimental Science

10.

Monica Solomon

University of Bucharest

MA Student

No


Graduate Students:

4 graduate students from the University of Notre-Dame: Erin Islo, Kristopher Kast, Kevin Mickey, Marta Michalska

2 graduate students from the University of Bucharest: Mihai Dragos Vadana

1 graduate student from the Princeton University: Kristin Primus