The Bucharest colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy was a series of events organised by FME with the collaboration with New Europe College, Bucharest and other scientific institutions around the world. Its purpose was to gather together for three days scholars of early modernity and students of early modern thought.
First Edition: 28-30th of June 2008:
Vanishing bodies and the birth of modern physics: experimental philosophy, speculative philosophy and the missing matter theory of the seventeenth century
Invited speakers: Dan Garber (Princeton University), Peter Anstey (University of Otago, New Zeeland), William Harper (University of Western Ontario), John Bell (University of Western Ontario), Katherine Brading (University of Notre Dame), Christoph Luthy (University of Nijmengen), Jani Haikkarainen (University of Helsinki). For more information, see Old Site.
The volume collecting the papers presented at the first Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy was published by Routledge in 2011 as Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Peter R. Anstey. For more information, see Old Site.
Second Edition: 26-27th of March 2009
Beyond Kuhnian paradigms: was there a scientific revolution in 17th century, after all?
Participants: Dan Garber (Princeton University), Peter Harrison (Oxford University), Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney), Eric Schliesser (Leyden University), Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest), Ilie Parvu (University of Bucharest), Sorin Costreie (University of Bucharest), Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Dana Jalobeanu (Western University Vasile Goldis, Arad, University of Bucharest), Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest), Grigore Vida (University of Bucharest), Lucian Petrescu (University of Bucharest), Doina Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest), Madalina Giurgea (University of Bucharest). For more information, see Old Site.
Fourth Edition: 12-14th of May 2013
Experiments and the Arts of Discovery in the Early Modern Europe
Participants: Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Peter Anstey (Sydney University), Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney), Sergius Kodera (Vienna University), Arianna Borrelli (Wuppertal), Jonathan Regier (Paris), Benedino Gemelli (Bellinzona), Evan Ragland (Alabama), Kathryn Murphy (Oxford), Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest), Mordechai Feingold (Caltech), Albrecht Heeffer (University of Ghent), Alberto Vanzo (Warwick), Koen Vermeir (Paris), Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest).
Organizers: Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest) and Cesare Pastorino (Essex University), at the Center for the Logic, History and the Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. For more information, see Old Site.