The Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy was established almost two decades ago by Dana Jalobeanu, Vlad Alexandrescu and Daniel Garber. Since then, every summer until the summer of 2019, we have met in the mountains of Transylvania. Over the years, these seminars have gained a reputation both for academic rigor and cordiality. The seminar has gradually evolved into an institution. In recent years it was co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University and the Humanities Division of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB).
Because of the COVID pandemic, we had to cancel our plans for summer of 2020, and we started to meet online. Our programs have continued through the academic year and have attracted an interesting international audience interested in early modern philosophy and science.
Programme
Every Tuesday from 1:30 PM ET.
November 1 [Daylight Saving Time ends in Europe] – “Leibniz on Quantity, Magnitudes and Numbers” with Filippo Costantini (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice/McMaster University) and Jeffrey Elawani (McMaster University/Université de Paris)
November 8 [Daylight Saving Time ends in US]: “The Emergence of Idealism” with Dávid Bartha (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Hanoch Ben-Yami (Central European University)
November 15: “Some Aspects of Spinoza’s Legacy” with Richard J Elliott (Birkbeck College, University of London), Steph Marston (Birkbeck College, University of London), Dan Taylor (Open University, UK), Marie Wuth (University of Aberdeen)
November 22 – “Navigating between Bacon and Descartes: Henry Power’s Experimental philosophy” with Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Oana Matei (Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad) and Grigore Vida (University of Bucharest)
November 29 – “Divine Attributes and Infinite Substance in Descartes’ Metaphysics” with Andrea Christofidou (University of Oxford) and David Cunning (University of Iowa)
December 6 – “Hryhorii Skovoroda: The Variety of Knowledge and the Unity of Wisdom” with Maria Grazia Bartolini (University of Milan), Erica Camisa Morale (USC), Victor Chernyshov (Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic) and Natalia Pylypiuk (University of Alberta)
December 13 – “Leibniz’s philosophical theology” with Paul Lodge (University of Oxford), Henry Straughan (Yale University ) and Asne Grogaard (University of Oxford)
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