Bucharest - Princeton Seminar 2010 - Reading Texts
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.
