EMPHASIS 2010-2011


EMPHASIS seminar 2010-2011

The EMPHASIS seminar on early modern philosophy and history of science, held in the School of Advanced Study, London, begins its eighth series on Saturday 16 October 2010, 2-4pm, when Angela Fischel (Humboldt Universität, Berlin) and Fabian Kraemer (Ludwig-Maximlians-Universität Munich and Max Planck Institute Berlin) will be giving papers on Renaissance natural history.

Other speakers this year are: Catherine Wilson, Didier Kahn, Jean-Pierre Brach, Hannah Dawson, Penelope Gouk, Anna Maria Roos, Michael Edwards, Daniel Andersson, Dmitri Levitin, Per Landgren, Alexander Wragge-Morley and Florence Grant, 

The themes of this year’s sessions include:  History and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Rethinking Representation in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Soul and Intellect in the Seventeenth Century, and Occult Philosophy in the Renaissance. 

If you would like to be emailed a copy of the programme or be added to our email list please contact the organizer Dr Stephen Clucas: s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk

For the most up-to-date information on the seminar please the seminar web-page:


Yours,

Stephen Clucas

Dr Stephen Clucas,
Editor, Intellectual History Review,
Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX. UK