November 8, 2019, ICUB Humanities & Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.

Organizer: Iovan Drehe (ICUB Humanities)

The workshop is organized under the framework of the national research grant (code: PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0228), “The emergence of mathematical physics in the context of experimental philosophy.”

Petrus Ramus (1515 – 1572) was one of the most influential educational reformers in history. Although his views in specific fields such as logic or mathematics are overlooked by the historians of the respective disciplines, the influence of Ramism in the 17th century is widely recognized (e.g. on Baconianism, Cartesianism, Pansophism etc.). Research in this direction was already undertaken by scholars such as Walter J. Ong or more recently Howard Hotson. However, there is still more to be said on the relation between Ramus and the early modern encyclopedists and this workshop will focus on Ramist metaphysics, physics, logic and mathematics and their respective influences in the case of figures such as Bartholomäus Keckermann, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld, John Amos Comenius, or János Apáczai Csere. These influence is to be addressed also considering the institutional and interdenominational contexts in which they occurred.

Programme:

9:30-10:00 – Coffee & Welcome

10:00 – 10:40 - Stefan Hessbrügen-Walter (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) – Ramist Physics: an Overview

10:40 – 11:00 – Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:40 - Danilo Facca (Polish Academy of Sciences) – The debate on Ramism and the metaphysics of the early Schulphilosophie (Altdorf, Helmstedt, Torun)

11:40 – 12:00 – Coffee Break

12:00 – 12:40 - Petr Pavlas (Czech Academy of Sciences) – “Lex secundum qvam disponuntur omnia”. Trichotomic trees in Jan Amos Comenius’s pansophical metaphysics and metaphorics

12:40 – 15:00 – Lunch Break

15:00 – 15:40 - Iovan Drehe (ICUB Humanities) – Petrus Ramus and János Apáczai Csere on logic and mathematics

Ramism and its Influence on 17th Century Encyclopaedism

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