ESEMP Conference: Why and How Do We Study Early Modern Philosophy Today?

(Crossposted at Handling Ideas Blog)

Following our Call for Abstracts last November, I am now happy to report that the Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP) runs it’s seventh conference at Hagen University, the place where the society was actually founded in 2004. In the meantime, we’ve finalised the downloadable conference programme (more details will be added on the conference website in the coming days). In case you want to register as a guest, there is an extra page for this.

At this point, I take the liberty to thank my wonderful team at Hagen for working ceaselessly to make (not only) this conference happen as well as the Hagen Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for generous financial support.

The aim of this conference is to bring together leading experts and young talented scholars from all over the world to explore ways of approaching early modern philosophy and reflect anew on the aims of doing so. Following recent discussions in the field, we will wonder, for instance, whether we should favour historical over so-called rational reconstructions of texts or what precise aims are served by extending the canon. Likewise, we will ask how advances in the digital humanities shape our field. Even if one works in more traditional ways, one has to inquire whether common assumptions about how to place and study texts, figures or debates still stand. A second focus of our conference concerns (practical) issues concerning especially early career researchers. In this spirit, the conference includes a mentoring programme intended to connect mentees with experienced researchers who will provide advice on papers.

“Physique et métaphysique : Quels enjeux dans la constitution des cartésianismes et des anti-cartésianismes ?” (Lyon, 19-20 mars 2013)

Colloque organisé par l’ANR « ANTHROPOS », avec le soutien du CERPHI, UMR 5037 et de Mathesis, CIRPHLES, USR 3308, et l’appui de l’ESEMP. C’est un lieu commun que Descartes a modifié l’acception des termes « physique » et «métaphysique », mais aussi qu’il a inversé l’ordre dans lequel ces disciplines devaient être abordées. Le détail de cette modification et l’histoire de cette inversion peuvent cependant aujourd’hui être l’objet d’une contextualisation fine. Lors des deux colloques qui seront successivement organisés sur cette question, à l’ENS-Lyon (mars 2013) puis à l’ENS-Paris (octobre 2013), nous nous proposons conséquemment d’interroger ce lieu commun à nouveaux frais. Continue reading

ESEMP 2013: Conference Program / Registration

The 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy, Debates, Polemics and Controversies in Early Modern Philosophy, will take place from January 30th to February 1st, 2013, at the Université de Grenoble, France.

The Conference was announced here. There was a Call for papers. You may now find the Program and abstracts here. A beautiful poster is to be downloaded here.

Should you want to come, we recommend a quite early registration. The Registration Forms are here, in English, German, or French.

We look forwards to seeing you in Grenoble!

 

ESEMP Conference 2013: Selected Papers

It’s been quite a long time since the last update.

Following the call for papers, the Scientific Committee had to choose 10 papers among 66 inspiring proposals. Each anonymous proposal was thoroughly reviewed and a little voting system was set up among the members of the Scientific Committee. Even though the votes were tight, the following decision was finally made.
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ESEMP Conference 2013 : “Debates, Polemics and Controversies in Early Modern Philosophy”

The  3rd International Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy will be devoted to the following theme: Debates, Polemics and Controversies in Early Modern Philosophy (January 30th to February 1st, 2013, Université de Grenoble, France). The general objective of the conference is to take an overview of the present historiographical situation regarding the study of controversies and to contribute to a reappraisal of the study of controversies in the history of early modern philosophy. It will aim not only at mapping the many philosophical controversies of the early modern period, but as well at making explicit the different methodological approaches that can be used to analyse controversies and at evaluating the different explanatory merits of those methodological approaches.

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ESEMP’s notebooks

La thématique du carnet est l’histoire de la philosophie moderne (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles).
Il s’agit d’accompagner le développement d’une société européenne visant à fédérer ou coordonnées les recherches en histoire de la philosophie moderne.