February 2012
14 posts
Now reading: If You Build It Will They Come? The... →
chaucergirlinaber:
“There are now many online, digital resources in the humanities, and their creation is funded by various governmental, academic, and philanthropic sources. What happens to these resources after completion is very poorly understood. No systematic survey of digital resource usage in the humanities…
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Is "nothing" relative? (II): an early modern...
Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter
This post explores Scotus’ thought on ‘nothing’ in creation, as it is expounded in the commentary on the Sentences written by Francisco de Herrera (Salmanticae 1595). It is based on the idea that everything that is created by God has presence in the Divine mind or will. Therefore created substances have esse cognitum in the Divine intellect or esse...
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“John Finnis observed that, since there is no doctrine of subjective rights in...”
– Brian Tierney, The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law and Church Law 1150-1625 (Atlanta: Scholar’s Press, 1997), 45. (via forschungsnotizen)
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Is 'nothing' relative? (I): early modern Thomists...
Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter
In his “Principes de la Nature et de la Grace fondés en Raison” (1714), Leibniz asks, “pourquoi il y a plus tôt quelque chose que rien”, why there is something rather than nothing. In the following series of blog posts I want to explore how this question would have been interpreted in early modern philosophy and theology before Leibniz (this is...
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“Letters by Early Modern Philosophers” (Nicosia,... →
This workshop on “Letters by Early Modern Philosophers” will take place during the ISSEI conference of 02-06 July 2012. You will find more info at the conference site at http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/. The precise date of the workshop will be announced later on. We are especially interested in papers which discuss (a) letter(s) written in the 17th century discussing controversial items at the...
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Call for Papers: Creative experiments:
Heuristic... →
This special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies aims to bring together articles devoted to the investigation of particular cases of early modern experiments or early modern discussions of experimental methodology. We aim to put together a selection of interesting and perhaps relevant case studies that would further what might prove to be an interesting line of research, namely the...
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Have you been complaining about your doctor... →
Papers are encouraged from all disciplines, including ethics and the medical humanities. Proposals are sought for physical, mental and emotional medicine and healing. It is anticipated that topics will encompass, but will not be restricted, to the following:
Grievances between medical practitioners
Criticism of medical innovation and pioneers, new techniques, syndromes or disease...
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On Two Letters by Descartes in Harvard →
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Histoire naturelle de Mre. Francois Bacon ..., L'... →
This book contains a version of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum, and an edited translation of New Atlantis (called, in the translation, Nouvel Atlas), both supplemented by prefaces of the translator and a Life of Bacon that is, probably, the first ever to appear in print. Little is known about the translator, Pierre Amboise, apart from what he says about himself in the preface and the...
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Medieval Hungary: Italy and Hungary in the... →
via http://tudorstudies.blogspot.com/
January 2012
14 posts
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Realism and Instrumentalism in Sixteenth Century... →
From the abstract:
We question the claim, common since Duhem, that sixteenth century astronomy, and especially the Wittenberg interpretation of Copernicus, was instrumentalistic rather than realistic. We identify a previously unrecognized Wittenberg astronomer, Edo Hildericus (Hilderich von Varel), who presents a detailed exposition of Copernicus’s cosmology that is incompatible with...