It gives us a great pleasure to announce that the new issue of the The Journal of Early Modern Studies is finally out. The Journal of Early Modern Studies is an interdisciplinary prestigious journal edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Vlad Alexandrescu, from the University of Bucharest. It is dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe.

This 8.1 issue is edited by Andreas Blank (Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt) and Dana Jalobeanu (ICUB, Humanities) having the theme of Common Notions in Early Modern Thought. This special issue was edited as part of the research project The Emergence of Mathematical Physics in the Context of Experimental Philosophy (PNIII-P4-ID-PCE 2016-0228, Principal Investigator – Dana Jalobeanu), carried out within the ICUB.

Contents:

Andreas Blak (Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt), Dana Jalobeanu (ICUB, Humanities), Introduction: Common Notions. An Overwiev.

Günter Frank (Melanchthon Haus, Bretten), “Deus vult aliquas esse certas notitias…”: Epistemological Discussions in the Philosophy of the Early Modern Period),

Miroslav Hanke (Czech Academy of Sciences), The Scholastic Logic of Statistical Hypotheses: proprietates terminorum, consequentiae, necessitas moralis, and probabilitas,

Mattia Mantovani (KU, Leuven), Herbert of Cherbury, Descartes and Locke on Innate Ideas and Universal Consent

Han Thomas Adriaenssen (University of Groningen), Common Conceptions and the Metaphysics of Material Substance: Domingo de Soto, Kenelm Digby and Johannes de Raey

Markku Roinila (University of Helsinki), Common Notions and Instincts as Sources of Moral Knowledge in Leibniz’s New Essays on Human Understanding

Andreas Blank (Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt), Christian Wolff on Common Notions and Duties of Esteem.

This 8.1 issue also contains the following reviews: a review done by Ovidiu Babeș (ICUB, Humanities) on Alan F. Chalmers’s book, One Hundred Years of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton, Dordrecht: Springer, 2017 and the other one by Iovan Drehe (ICUB, Humanities) on Richard J. Oosterhoff’s book, Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’Étaples, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

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