CfA: Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy and Science (17th edition)
Invited speakers include: Arianna Borrelli (TU, Berlin),
Antonio Clericuzio (Roma Tre), Daniel Garber (Princeton), Dana Jalobeanu
(Bucharest), Arnaud Pelletier (Bruxelles), Koen Vermeir (Paris).
The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar is an annual
interdisciplinary meeting of scholars and students of early modern thought. Its
aim is to create a stimulating
environment for discussing papers and ideas through formal and informal
discussions, reading-groups and round tables. Morning sessions are organized as
reading groups, while the afternoon sessions give participants an opportunity
to discuss their own special interests with an open and sympathetic audience of
students and scholars with broad interests in early modern philosophy and early
modern science. Texts for the reading groups are distributed one month in
advance. There is no pre-established theme, but we are looking for
contributions emphasizing the interplay between early modern philosophy and the
“sciences” of the seventeenth century.
The process of selection: Please send us your proposal by
April 30, 2018 (CV, letter of intention and a short description of your
project). If you want to present a paper, add an abstract (max 500 words); if
you want to propose a reading group, send a 1000 words description (including
the proposed bibliography) to dana.jalobeanu@filosofie.
Venue
This year, the seminar will take place in Bran, a small
resort near Brasov, in Transylvania. We will travel together from Bucharest to
Bran by bus. Participants are expected to arrive in Bucharest on June 27 and
leave on July 5. In Bran, the group will be accommodated together, in Villa
Andra (single and double rooms, some shared bathrooms). For more information
concerning the venue, accommodation and costs, please contact: dana.jalobeanu@filosofie.
Organizers: The research center Foundations of
Early Modern Thought, University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy,
Princeton University, Institute for Research in the Humanities, ICUB, The
research project (PNIII- P4-ID- PCE
2016-0228): The emergence of mathematical physics in
the context of experimental philosophy.