📣Next meeting - #DescartesLab
March 27, 2026 - at 3.00 pm (Italy time) / 9.00 am (NY city)
Discussion of Elodie Cassan's Le langage de la raison (Vrin, 2023) - the meeting is in English and online
#histphilo #17thcentury #ageofreason #Descartes #cartesianism - attendance is free
René Descartes - A French philosopher, mathematician and natural scientist.
René Descartes
A French philosopher, mathematician and natural scientist. Descartes is considered the founder of modern early modern rationalism.
#RenéDescartes
#Philosophy
#Rationalism
#Cartesianism
#thinkaboutit
📣a Cartesian meeting at @sns.it #Descartes #Cartesianism with Simone D'Agostino! #histphilo #17thcentury
This is next week, Tuesday 27th January - discussing ontology in Clauberg and the 17th century with Alice Ragni, Lucia Oliveri and Andrea Strazzoni (in English)
#DescartesLab #17thcentury #histphilo #Cartesianism
in the lastest isuee of Studia Neoaristotelica, there are 2 nice articles on Descartes - the one on laughter, the second on Mercer's interpretation of Descartes's relationship with Teresa d'Avila. #Descartes #17thcentury #histphilo #cartesianism
the poster for the next #ForumDescartes is ready
See you in Turin, January 21-23 for this great event on #Descartes and #seventeenthcentury #histphilo #histsci #Cartesianism with several leading scholars and very good graduate students! Let us #revive #Descartesphilo #Descartesscience
We are deep into discussing what is the moral connection between La Forge, the good Cartesian, and Descartes and inheritance and deviation of Cartesians from the teachings of Descartes! some matter to reflect #descartes #descarteslab #cartesianism #histphilo #17thcentury
Two events at Fribourg University in Switzerland, with Francesco Marrone discussing #Descartes #Cartesianism and #Scholasticism at large, especially dealing with doubt, will, reality, and objectification #17thcentury #histphilo
In 2024 #DescartesLab, M. Zapulla and R. Putignano discussed R. Andrault's book "Le fer ou le feu" - from this presentation, R. Putignano has published a book review, now out for the #GiornaleCriticodellaFilosofiaItalia #histphilo #histsci #histmed #Cartesianism
www.lelettere.it/libro/24005-...
I wonder, why is the agency of organisms considered a philosophical problem at all?
It seems that #philosophy is trapped in the flybottle of #Cartesianism and #naturalism /Epicureanism. The talk about animals as machines makes sense only against that background.
📢 #bluehistorians #Skystorians Please follow this event on Cartesian studies #Descartes #17thcentury #histphilo #Cartesianism #histsci in Bari
The next #ForumDescartes will be in Torino - January 21-23, 2026 - the CFP is available (submission by September 15)
Share and apply if you are working on #Descartes #Cartesianism #17thcentury #histphilo #histsci
The lineup of organizers is important!
#Phdstudents #graduatestudents #philosophers
In a month's time there will be a one-day IHRIM/NOTCOM workshop in Lyon on #Cartesianism and the #historyofideas. I will be discussing #Descartes on #fencing and also, as the background of the poster suggests, Descartes' opinion of #GirardThibault d'Anvers (spoiler: he doesn't like it)
📣Workshop on Object/Oggetto/Objet @Unisalento #CentroCartesiano #Descartes #Cartesianism #histphilo #histsci
📢new publication - the Festschrifft to honor Stephen Gaukroger is out with Springer, with several chapters on G's studies on #Descartes #17thcentury #earlymodern #histphilo #histsci #cartesianism
#skyDescartes #bluedescartes #DescartesLab
check it out!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Meme with the "huh?" cat, that reads: "I think, therefore I HUH"
Subversive Philosophy Memes is now also on BlueSky!
#booDescartes #Cartesianism #huhcat #memes #catmemes #huhcatmemes #philosophymemes #subversivephilosophymemes
Tabula gratulatoria for the publication of the book by
Massimiliano Savini, Logica e ontologia cartesiane. Ragioni e comparazioni (Lecce, 2024)
If you like to participate, follow the link #descartes #cartesianism #earlymodern #17thcenturyphilo #histphilo
www.cartesius.net/tabula-gratu...
Poster of #DescartesLaboratory Online Seminar run by
@fabribald.bsky.social and Simone Guidi
The seminar is planned as a laboratory for phd and young scholars working on seventeenth-century science #histsci #Descartes #Cartesianism #histphilo #Descartes #philoscience #17thcentscience #earlymodern
I think, therefore I am. René Descartes Philosopher
René Descartes
31.3.1596 - 11.02.1650
A French philosopher, mathematician and natural scientist.
Descartes is considered the founder of modern early modern rationalism.
#RenéDescartes
#Philosophy
#Rationalism
#Cartesianism
#thinkaboutit
