Bucharest Colloquium

Bucharest colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy

The Bucharest colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual event organised by FME with the collaboration with New Europe College, Bucharest and other scientific institutions around the world. Its purpose is to gather together for three days scholars of early modernity and students of early modern thought. The first edition of the colloquium, in 2008, was organised by a scientific committee from Princeton University, University of Otago, New Zeeland, and the University of Bucharest. The second edition is a result of a collaboration between New Europe College and the Research Centre of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Bucharest (as part of a NEC-LINK grant). The main organiser of the colloquium is Dana Jalobeanu.

First Edition: 28-30^th 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).

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The volume collecting the papers presented at the first Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy is to be published by Routledge in 2010. More...

Second Edition: 26-27^th of March 2009

Beyond Kuhnian paradigms: was there a scientific revolution in 17^th 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).

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Fourth Edition: 12-14^th 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.

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