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“Suarez dans l histoire de la métaphysique – Volume I – L’héritage et le débat contemporain”, by J.-P. Coujou

April 7th, 2023|Tags: , , |

More information The rich and diversified dialogue that Suárez proposes with the history of metaphysics has effects on the representation that the human being implements in relation to the limits of his knowledge, the use [...]

“Pedro da Fonseca: Humanism and Metaphysics”, ed. by S. Guidi, M. S. de Carvalho

March 4th, 2023|Tags: , , |

More information Also known as the “Portuguese Aristotle”, Pedro da Fonseca S. J. (1527-1599) was a prominent figure in early modern scholasticism and particularly in the history of the Society of Jesus. He laid the [...]

“Distinction and Identity in Late-Scholastic Thought and Beyond”, 15-17 May 2023 @ Louvain-La-Neuve

January 30th, 2023|Tags: , |

More information The conference, organized by Claus Asbjørn Andersen and Jacob Schmutz, aims to bring together scholars working on different strands of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern thought. Its broader focus is on the general variety of [...]

Lexicon Philosophicum 9 – “Superstitio”, ed. by C. Buccolini and E. Pasini

January 19th, 2023|Tags: , |

More information and download The latest issue of Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas is out. The journal is published by the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History [...]

Quaestio N. 22: “For a History (and Prehistory) of Ontology: Method, Lexicon, Concepts”, ed. by F. Fronterotta, A. Ragni

January 6th, 2023|Tags: , |

More information and purchase Quaestio No. 22 came out. The volume contains a special issue on the History of Ontology, edited by Francesco Fronterotta and Alice Ragni. An additional special section is devoted to John [...]

“Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers”, ed. by D. Verardi

December 21st, 2022|Tags: |

More information and purchase Magic is central to Aristotle's philosophy in this wide-ranging collection of essays that re-frame his natural philosophy. From late Mediaeval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle, [...]

“Mirabilis Scientiae Fundamenta: Der Anfang Der Kartesischen Philosophie”, ed. by D. Arbib , V. Carraud , E. Mehl , W. Schweidler

December 21st, 2022|Tags: |

More information and purchase The Lord gave it to him in his sleep... Four hundred years ago, in Neuburg, René Descartes dreamed up the method of "wonderful science" that was to become the foundation of [...]

“Ramon Llull y los Lulistas (Siglos XIV-XX)”, ed. by Rafael Ramis Barceló

December 12th, 2022|Tags: |

More information and purchase This book comes out as a joint project between the Institute for Hispanic Studies in Modernity (IEHM) and the Spanish Province of the TOR of St. Francis. Since a systematic study [...]

“Peter of Auvergne, Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. A Critical Edition and Study”, ed. by Marco Toste

December 12th, 2022|

More information and purchase This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne’s Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 [...]

“Compreender, descrever, Medir o mundo. Cosmoteoria de António Castel-Branco. Um curso lecionado na Universidade de Évora (1588)”

December 10th, 2022|Tags: , |

More information and purchase The work Cosmotheoria (Cosmotheory) is an introductory course on geography and the use of some mathematical instruments (astrolabe, celestial globe, altimetric scale among others). It reflects university lectures given by the Jesuit [...]

“Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620”, by Christine Kooi

December 9th, 2022|

This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation – both Protestant and Catholic – across the whole of the Low Countries during the sixteenth [...]

“Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance”, ed. by Christoph Lüthy and Elena Nicoli

December 9th, 2022|Tags: , , |

More information and purchase The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied [...]

“Descartes in the Classroom. Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age”, ed. by Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani

December 9th, 2022|Tags: , |

More information and purchase The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’s philosophy in the early modern age. Its twenty chapters explore the clash between Descartes’s “new” philosophy and the established [...]

“Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought”, ed. by Leopoldo J. Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno

December 9th, 2022|Tags: , |

More information and purchase Spanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), José de Acosta (1540-1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of [...]

“Libertad, ley y poder. Bien común y Derechos humanos en la obra de Francisco Suárez”, by Isabel Lafuente

December 9th, 2022|Tags: , |

More information and purchase This book deals with the issues, the problems and the solutions that Suárez's iusnaturalistic philosophy poses and offers to human beings and society as regards the notions of freedom, law and [...]

“Immanent Transcendence Francisco Suárez’s Doctrine of Being”, by V. Salas

November 10th, 2022|Tags: , |

More information and purchase Long considered one of late scholasticism’s most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the [...]

“Parts, Wholes, and Matter in Early Modern Natural Philosophy”, ed. by Simone Guidi

November 9th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

More information and purchase Bruniana & Campanelliana 2022/1 features a special section, edited by Simone Guidi, on "Parts, Wholes, and Matter in Early Modern Natural Philosophy". Section Contents: Simone Guidi, Introduction; Andrew W. Arlig, Part-Whole [...]

Divergent Scholasticism: Philosophical Thought and Scholastic Tradition between Europe and the Americas, 1500-1700

September 10th, 2022|Tags: , |

More information A very common narrative in the history of both philosophy and science reconstructs the dawn of early-modern thought as a clean break from the dusk of Scholasticism and its Aristotelian roots. The workshop [...]

“Cognitive Issues in the Long Scotist Tradition”, ed. by Daniel Heider, Claus Andersen

September 9th, 2022|Tags: , , |

More information and purchase The late-scholastic school of Scotism (after John Duns Scotus) left considerable room for disagreement. This volume innovatively demonstrates just how vividly Scotist philosophers and theologians discussed cognitive matters from the 14th [...]

Portuguese / Latin Edition of the Cursus Conimbricensis – Vol. 4: “De Anima”

May 10th, 2022|

More information and purchase A Commentary on Aristotle's 'De Anima' as part of the Coimbra Jesuit Course (1592-1606). This volume is dedicated to the translation, edition, explanation (explanatio) and questioning (quaestio) of books I and [...]

“Histoire de la fin des temps. Les mutations du discours Eschatologique. Moyen Age, Renaissance, Temps Modernes”, ed. by É. Mehl, Ch. Trottmann

March 5th, 2022|

More information and purchase Medieval Western eschatology was built on the basis of Holy Scripture and has undergone significant changes over the centuries. The witness of the first Christians shows that the advent of the [...]

“Aristotelismo, libertinismo, erudizione nell’Italia del Seicento”, by O. Trabucco

February 1st, 2022|

More information and purchase Aristotelianism, libertinism, erudition are philosophical currents evolving over the entire seventeenth century in Italy, and their results cannot be enclosed in strict definitions. Moving against the background of epochal events, such [...]

“Locke and Occasionalism”, special issue of Studi Lockiani, ed. by L. Simonutti

January 29th, 2022|

More information and purchase This special issue of Studi Lockiani (2, 2021), edited by Luisa Simonutti (ISPF-CNR), is devoted to Locke and Occasionalism. With papers by Igor Agostini, Raffaele Carbone, Matteo Favaretti, Simone Guidi, Nicholas [...]

“Radical Natural Theologies from Duns Scotus to Christian Wolff”, special issue of Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, ed. by A. Frigo

January 24th, 2022|Tags: , |

More information and purchase This special issue of the Italian Scopus Journal of Philosophy Rivista di storia della filosofia (4/2021) edited by Alberto Frigo (UniMi), is devoted to "Radical Natural Theologies from Duns Scotus to [...]

“Nel labirinto della materia. Il dibattito filosofico e teologico dalla tarda antichità all’età moderna”, ed by C. Altini, B. Cavarra, G. Cerro

January 20th, 2022|Tags: |

More information and purchase The essays composing this volume investigate the stratifications and changes in the evolution of theories of matter in the philosophical and theological tradition. They also investigate cases and crucial moments for [...]

“1655 Stopover in Coimbra: A young Jesuit between West and East”, ed. by Noël Golvers and Carlota Simões

January 17th, 2022|

More information and OA download In the letter published here, a young Jesuit priest educated in the colleges of the Society of Jesus in Brabant gives a detailed account of life in the College of [...]

“The Philosophers and the Bible. The Debate on Sacred Scripture in Early Modern Thought”, ed by A. Del Prete, A. L. Schino, and P. Totaro

January 14th, 2022|Tags: , , |

More information and purchase   The Bible is the crucible within which were forged many of the issues most vital to philosophy during the early modern age. Different conceptions of God, the world, and the [...]

“Itinerari di filosofia e teologia francescana. Studi offerti in memoria di Marco Arosio”, ed by A. Nannini and I. Zavattero (Open Access)

January 14th, 2022|Tags: , , |

Download in OA   From the doctrines of the early Parisian Franciscans to the sixteenth-century Spanish disputes involving Franciscans and Dominicans, this collective volume covers three centuries of philosophical and theological thought. The Franciscan perspective [...]

“Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian Tradition. Essays on the Reception of Aristotle’s De memoria et reminiscentia”, ed. by V. Decaix, C. Thomsen Thörnqvist

January 14th, 2022|Tags: , , |

More information and purchase   Aristotle’s De memoria et reminiscentia (“On Memory and Recollection”) is the oldest surviving systematic study of the nature of human memory. Forming part of Aristotle’s other minor writings on psychology that [...]

“Centres and Peripheries in the History of Philosophical Thought. Essays in Honour of Loris Sturlese”, Brepols 2021

September 7th, 2021|

More information The notions of ‘centre’ and ‘peripheries’ are the two paradigms guiding through a broad analysis of figures, places and topics within the history of philosophy. This volume is an homage to the great [...]

SIEPM One-to-One Stipend (deadline: September 30, 2021)

September 7th, 2021|

More information The SIEPM One-to-One Stipend supports junior researchers (up to and including the postdoc level) to visit and work with a senior researcher. Each year, four Stipends are available. The amount for each Stipend [...]

Convegno “Le idee divine nella prima scuola francescana di Parigi. Un esame delle fonti greche e latine”, 28-29 settembre 2021 @ Trento

September 3rd, 2021|

More information Palazzo Paolo Prodi - Via Tommaso Gar 14, Trento - Aula 01 Alla luce del recente interesse per il pensiero della cosiddetta “prima scuola francescana” di Parigi (prima metà del XIII sec.), il [...]

International Congress “De Cognitione” – VIII Congreso de SOFIME @ University of Porto, 6-8 September 2021

September 3rd, 2021|

More information On September 6-8, 2021, the Iberian Society for Medieval Philosophy (Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval – SOFIME) will hold at the Faculdade de Letras – Universidade do Porto, Portugal, its 8th International Congress, under [...]

Online International Seminar “The Genesis Of Globalization: History, Geography, Literature, Philosophy”, 22-23 September 2021

September 3rd, 2021|

More information El Congreso se propone abordar el proceso globalizador a través de una perspectiva eminentemente comparatista. Las diferentes comunicaciones se enmarcan en cuatro ámbitos disciplinarios fundamentales: Historia, Geografía, Literatura y Filosofía. El objetivo es dar cuerpo [...]

I Simposio Internacional “Entre la Edad Media y la Modernidad: la Ruptura del Espacio en Europa y en el Nuevo Mundo”, Cáceres, 16-17 September 2021

September 3rd, 2021|

More information The topic: “The Rupture of Space”, alludes to the rupture of the geographical and cultural boundaries that the adventure of the circumference of the Planet led by Magellan and completed by Elcano and [...]

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Inaugural Conference – October 3-6, 2021 @ University of Notre Dame

September 3rd, 2021|

More information This inaugural conference brings together more than 90 scholars from across the country and around the world to share their research. Cosponsors are Department of Philosophy Nanovic Institute for European Studies Institute for Scholarship [...]

Online conference – “Profiling Saints Understanding the Theological and Cultural Foundations of Catholic Hagiographical Models (1500s–1900s)”

September 3rd, 2021|

More information In the Catholic Church’s tradition and canon law, canonizations represent the final step of trials aiming to verify the heroicity of virtues and/or the martyrdom of those who died in the odor of [...]

“Religious Orders and Their Schools in Early Modern Italy (1500–1800)”, by David Salomoni

July 5th, 2021|

More information and purchase In Educating the Catholic People, David Salomoni reconstructs the complex educational landscape that arose in sixteenth-century Italy and lasted until the French Revolution. Over three centuries, various religious orders, both male and [...]

Call for Papers: “‘Superstitio’ from Ancient to Early Modern: Philosophy, Lexicography, and History of Ideas

June 25th, 2021|

More information  Call for Papers for the end-2021 issue of Lexicon Philosophicum (deadline: Nov 15, 2021). Lexicon Philosophicum is the flagship journal of ILIESI (Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee). It [...]

“The Colleges of Jesus and Arts of Coimbra (1542‒1759)”, by Rui Lobo

June 22nd, 2021|

Preview This new book (2021) by Prof. Rui Lobo, published by the Editorial do Departamento de Arquitectura da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (edarq), focuses on the history of Jesuit architecture in Coimbra. The [...]

“«L’essentialisme» wolffien et la métaphysique de la science moderne” @ Collège de France, 24 June 2021

June 21st, 2021|Tags: , |

More information Online one-day conference, organized by Claudine Tiercelin. Registration is required to Alexandre Declos: alexandre.declos@college-de-france.fr. En présentant la pensée philosophique de Christian Wolff (1679-1754) en 1990, Michel Puech soulignait que : « L’idée de [...]

“John of the Cross: Carmel, Desire and Transformation” @ St Mary’s University Twickenham, London, 21st – 23rd June 2021

June 17th, 2021|Tags: |

More information Saint John of the Cross remains a major source of Western thought on spirituality, theology and mysticism. He is of continuing relevance in the context of present cultural malaise concerning meaning, purpose, authenticity [...]

“Dominican Culture, Dominican Theology” – Online Conference – 29 June – 02 July 2021

June 17th, 2021|Tags: , |

More information Annual meeting of IGTM – International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology - Hosted by the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. In the high Middle Ages, a novel concept [...]

Marco Arosio Award – 11th edition (2021) – Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum

June 17th, 2021|Tags: |

More information Professor Marco Arosio (d. 2009) is well known among Italian Medieval Philosophy scholars for his knowledge and accuracy. Each year the Chair dedicated to his memory awards a cash prize (€ 2000,00 for [...]

“Actualidad y proyección de la tradición escolástica” – International Congress @ Universidad Francisco de Vitoria – 17-18 June 2021

June 15th, 2021|Tags: , |

This Congress (Madrid, 17-18 June) is organized by Professor Leopoldo José Prieto Lopez. It will be available a Zoom streaming of the event: • 17 June • 18 June

“¿Qué es la escuela de Salamanca?”, ed. by Simona Langella, Rafael Ramis Barceló

March 17th, 2021|

More information and purchase This book collects the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the Seminar "What is the School of Salamanca?", held at the Università Pontificia Salesiana in Rome, on September 17-19, 2020, sponsored by the Department [...]

Online Seminar of Jesuit Studies – April-June 2021 – “Textos Fundamentais da Companhia de Jesus”

March 17th, 2021|

This is a cycle of online seminars (in Portuguese) organized by Margarida Miranda, Carlota Urbano, and Emanuel Nogueira at the University of Coimbra's CECH. Module 1: "Na pena do fundador" will take place between April [...]

“Animal Minds in Medieval Latin Philosophy. A Sourcebook from Augustine to Wodeham”, by Anselm Oelze

March 16th, 2021|

More information and purchase This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small. It makes accessible a wide range of key Latin texts from [...]

“Jesuits in Spanish America before the Suppression. Organization and Demographic and Quantitative Perspectives”, by Robert H. Jackson

March 15th, 2021|

More information and purchase From the late sixteenth century until their expulsion in 1767, members of the Society of Jesus played an important role in the urban life of Spanish America and as administrators of [...]

“Summistae. The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae from the 15th to the 17th Centuries”, edited by Lidia Lanza and Marco Toste

March 15th, 2021|

More information and purchase The importance of the Summa theologiae on Late Scholasticism Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance [...]

“Ego sum/Je suis/Io sono/I am/Ich bin nell’aetas cartesiana”, 23-24 April (h 14.00-21.00) – Online Seminar Organized by CESDES Università del Salento & CEC Sorbonne Université

March 15th, 2021|

Portuguese / Latin Edition of the Cursus Conimbricensis – Vol. 3: “De Caelo” (Part 1)

March 15th, 2021|

More information and purchase First part of the Coimbra commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo, known as Coimbra Jesuit Commentaries on Aristotle, published in Lisbon 1593 by Manuel de Góis (1543-1597). Here Góis comments and discusses [...]

“Somnia. Il sogno dall’antichità all’età moderna”, by C. Buccolini and P. Totaro (eds), ILIESI Digitale 2021

March 5th, 2021|

More information and free PDF download This volume, mostly in Italian, deals with crucial moments in the philosophical debate on dreams, from antiquity and late antiquity to the modern age. Starting from a historical-critical overview [...]

“Plants in Early Modern Knowledge: History, Philosophy, and Medicine” Online Seminar, March-June 2021

February 27th, 2021|

More information Organizer: Dr. Fabrizio Baldassarri, within the CREMT @ Ca' Foscari Link zoom: unive.zoom.us/j/89254416812 For any information and the zoom link, please write to manipulatingflora@gmail.com March 22, h. 17.30 (Rome) Antonio Clericuzio (University Roma Tre), “Experiments with the Resurrections [...]

Quaestio N. 20: “Doctor Fundatissimus. Giles of Rome: His Thought and Influence”, ed. by M. Benedetto, F. Marrone, P. Porro

February 24th, 2021|

More information and purchase Quaestio n. 20 has been published. The volume contains a special issue on Giles of Rome, edited by Marienza Benedetto, Francesco Marrone, and Paquale Porro. Table of Contents Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, ‘Logica [...]

Workshop: “Subject Indexing Early Modern Dissertations: Towards a Methodology for ML-based Text Classification Using Metadata”, 17 February 2021

February 10th, 2021|Tags: , |

More information Workshop held by Stefan Heßbrüggen and Jörg Walter @ Development and Application of Category Systems for Text Research - 4th forTEXT expert workshop, 17 February 2021 For a digital historian of philosophy, VD17, [...]

“Cognitive Issues in the Long Scotist Tradition”, Online Conference, 11-13 February 2021 @ University of South Bohemia

February 10th, 2021|Tags: , , |

More information Online Conference, 11-13 February 2021 Faculty of Theology at the University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (Budweis) Organized by Daniel Heider and Claus A. Andersen, University of South Bohemia (Czech Republic) The conference will be held [...]

“La teoria della conoscenza di Francisco Macedo”, by Anna Tropia

February 9th, 2021|Tags: , |

More information and purchase Thomas and Scotus are among the most representative philosophers of medieval thought. In the wake of a long tradition of interpretation, the Franciscan theologian Francisco Macedo (Coimbra 1596-Padua 1681) compares their [...]

“Aristotelian Subjectivism: Francisco Suárez’s Philosophy of Perception”, by Daniel Heider

January 31st, 2021|Tags: , |

More information and purchase This monograph, published by Springer, presents new material on Francisco Suárez’s comprehensive theory of sense perception. The core theme is perceptual intentionality in Suárez’s theory of the senses, external and internal, [...]

“Aristoteles Asianus: Aristotle’s works, the Coimbra Texts, and Jesuits’ Chinese Translations in the Seventeenth Century” @ Seoul National University

January 28th, 2021|

More information Organized by the Institutes of Humanities and Greco-Roman Studies at Seoul National University (Seoul National University), this event will take place from 1 to 3 February 2021. On the 1st of February, at [...]

Call for 2021 Summer Luce Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships

January 24th, 2021|

The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History University of San Francisco (USF) The USF Ricci Institute is a premier global resource for the study of Chinese-Western cultural exchange with a core focus on the social [...]

“Matter” and its semantic correlations. Some Ancient and Modern Examples

January 7th, 2021|

Online event and a first step in the research project by Elena Rapetti, Savina Raynaud and Nicoletta Scotti according to the D.1 line grants (2019-20), financed by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and undertaken in its [...]

“Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism”, ed. by Giouli Korobili and Roberto Lo Presti

December 19th, 2020|Tags: , |

More information and purchase This volume, published by De Gruyter within the series "Topics in Ancient Philosophy" is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation [...]

“Baroque Metaphysics. Studies on Francisco Suárez”, by Simone Guidi

December 19th, 2020|Tags: |

Download | More information and purchase This book collects six unpublished and published academic studies on the thought of Francisco Suárez, which is addressed through accurate textual analyses and meticulous contextualization of his doctrines in [...]

“Descartes and the Ingenium. The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism”, ed. by R. Garrod and A. Marr

December 3rd, 2020|Tags: , |

More information and purchase Edited by Raphaële Garrod (Oxford) and Alexander Marr (Cambridge), “Descartes and the Ingenium” tracks the significance of embodied thought (ingenium) in the philosophical trajectory of the founding father of dualism. The [...]

“Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater”, by Margarida Miranda

October 15th, 2020|Tags: , |

More information and purchase In Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater, Margarida Miranda takes a fresh look at the origins of Jesuit theater and provides a detailed account of the life and work of Miguel [...]

“Les Passions de l’âme et leur réception philosophique”, edited by Giulia Belgioioso and Vincent Carraud

September 24th, 2020|Tags: , |

More information and purchase Les Passions de l'âme is Descartes's last published work. When it appeared in 1649, both in Amsterdam and in Paris, the philosopher was already in Stockholm, invited by Christine of Sweden. [...]

“Revisiting Plato’s Parmenides”, edited by Maria do Céu Fialho and António Manuel Martins

September 24th, 2020|Tags: , , |

More information and free download This book presents a collection of selected essays from the papers presented to the international conference on Plato’s Parmenides on the occasion of the 2nd Meeting of the Mediterranean Section [...]

“Escritos sobre escravidão”, by Lúcio Álvaro Marques and João Paulo Rodrigues Pereira

August 24th, 2020|Tags: , , |

More information and free download "Escritos sobre escravidão" ("Writings on Slavery") is a new publication (203 pp. in Portuguese), by Lúcio Álvaro Marques and João Paulo Rodrigues Pereira. It collects several modern works (16th-19th century) [...]

Portuguese / Latin Edition of the Cursus Conimbricensis – Vol. 2: “Ethica”

August 4th, 2020|

More information and purchase Among all the Commentaries on the ‘Nichomachean Ethics’ by Aristotle, the Jesuit Coimbra Commentary (16th Century), written by Manuel de Góis, as a part of the widely known Jesuit Coimbra Commentaries [...]

Os jesuítas e o ensino da astrologia no colégio de Santo Antão 

July 14th, 2020|

Seminário História dos Jesuítas | 14 de Julho de 2020 18h30 - Brotéria Falar de astrologia no contexto da história dos Jesuítas parece estranho, quase absurdo. É aliás frequentemente assumido que a Sociedade de Jesus [...]

“Francisco Suárez. Metaphysics, Politics and Ethics”, ed. by Mário Santiago de Carvalho, Manuel Lázaro Pulido, Simone Guidi

July 2nd, 2020|

More information and free download This volume publishes the Proceedings of the 1st International Meeting "Thinking Baroque in Portugal" (26-28 June 2017), which dealt with the metaphysical, ethical and political thinking of Francisco Suárez. Counting [...]

“Dicionário do Curso Filosófico Conimbricense”, by Mário Santiago de Carvalho

June 4th, 2020|

More information and purchase With more than five-hundred entries, the present Dictionary (published, in Portuguese, by Palimage) is the result of one of the multiple lines of research carried out by the Institute for Philosophical [...]

“Skepticism in Philosophy. A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction”, by H. Lagerlund

June 2nd, 2020|Tags: |

More information and purchase In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As the first of its kind, the book traces [...]

Portuguese / Latin Edition of the Cursus Conimbricensis – Vol. 1: “Comentários aos ‘Parva Naturalia’”

May 23rd, 2020|

More information and purchase Aristotle's work known under the Latin name Parva Naturalia had an undeniable, international philosophical fortune. Among all the comments that this text knew, the most relevant is surely that made in Coimbra, [...]

“Active Cognition. Challenges to an Aristotelian Tradition”, ed. by Véronique Decaix and Ana María Mora-Márquez

March 26th, 2020|

More information and purchase This edited work is edited by Véronique Decaix and Ana María Mora-Márquez, and published by Springer in 2020. The book draws on a range of contributed expertise to trace the fortune [...]

Post-Doc @ Stockholm University: “The Mechanization of Philosophy between 1300 and 1700”

February 5th, 2020|

More information | Closing date: 31 March 2020. The Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University invites applications for a full-time three-year post-doctoral position in the history of philosophy. The position is funded by the Swedish [...]

“Jesuit Logic and Late Ming China. Lectures on the Cursus Conimbricensis”, ed. by Cristiano Casalini

January 28th, 2020|

More information and purchase Jesuit missionaries and Chinese literati first introduced Aristotelian logic to China during the late Ming dynasty (in the first half of the 17th century). They collaborated to translate this specific part [...]

“Francisco Suárez 1617-2017” ed. by C. Faraco and S. Langella

January 25th, 2020|

This volume (312 pp.), edited by Cintia Faraco and Simona Langella and published by Artetetra Edizioni in 2019, collects the Proceedings of the Congress "Francisco Suárez 1617-2017 - Convegno in occasione del IV centenario della [...]

FCT-Funded Post-Doc Research Positions in Philosophy (Up to 6 Years)

January 22nd, 2020|

The Institute for Philosophical Studies (IEF) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC) welcomes and supports qualified candidates interested in applying for fix-term (up to 6 years) research positions [...]

University of Groningen: Post-doc in History of Philosophy

December 18th, 2019|

Post-doc in History of Philosophy (1.0 FTE) (219626) More information Organisation Since its founding in 1614, the University of Groningen has enjoyed an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative centre of higher education offering [...]

CFP: “From Hylomorphism to Early Modern Theories of Matters”

December 14th, 2019|

15th International Colloquium for the History of Natural Philosophy 26th-29th of May 2020 University of Campinas, Brazil Call for Papers open until January 30th, 2020 Send a proposal with name, institution, title, and an abstract [...]

CFP: XVIII International Conference on Jesuit Missions

November 18th, 2019|

Montevideo, Uruguay, November 4-7, 2020 PRIMERA CIRCULAR FINAL XVIII Jornadas Misiones Jesuíticas 2a Circular THE JESUIT MISSIONS SEEN FROM THE 21ST CENTURY: Assimilation, regional translations and local forms of the Jesuit ecumenical project. Deadline for [...]

Commentare il De interpretatione: da Alessandro di Afrodisia al XIV secolo

November 17th, 2019|

More information 21-22 November 2019 University of Bergamo, Aula 8, Via Pignolo 123 Program: 21 November Chair: Riccardo Saccenti (Bergamo) h. 15.00-16.00: Maddalena Bonelli (Bergamo): I frammenti del commento perduto di Alessandro di Afrodisia nel De [...]

Al di la’ della morte. L’immortalità dell’anima nel pensiero occidentale

November 15th, 2019|

More information Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ingresso da Via Accademia delle Scienze 6 Sala dei Mappamondi Giovedì 21 e venerdì 22 novembre 2019 Il convegno prenderà in esame alcuni momenti centrali del fecondo dibattito che [...]

CFP: Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge and Johannes Amos Comenius

November 10th, 2019|

International conference Dates: 30 September – 3 October 2020 Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Organiser: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Co-organiser: German Historical Institute Warsaw Keynotes: Paula Findlen (Stanford), Howard Hotson (Oxford) Abstract [...]

Giovanni Duns Scoto in Italia (Seconda Giornata di Studio) – 6 December 2019

November 10th, 2019|

The second workshop "Giovanni Duns Scoto in Italia" will take place on the 6th of December, 2019, at the Pontificia Università Antonianum of Rome. See below the complete program! Program Josip Percan, ofm: Il lavoro [...]

“Francisco Suárez: Metaphysics, Politics and Ethics”: Pre-launch @ University of Coimbra

October 26th, 2019|Tags: , , |

The volume "Francisco Suárez: Metaphysics, Politics and Ethics. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium ‘Thinking the Baroque’ in Portugal", edited by Mário Santiago de Carvalho, Manuel Lázaro Pulido and Simone Guidi, has been pre-launched during [...]

“Libertas Philosophandi. Freedom of Expression, Conscience and Thought in Modern Philosophy”

September 6th, 2019|

9-11 Settembre 2019 Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione, Centro Internazionale di Studi Umanistici "Umberto Eco" More information | PDF Program Fifth Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy Che [...]

University of Hong Kong: 2 PhD positions in History of Translation/Science Studies

August 18th, 2019|

The Department of Linguistics and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong offers up to two PhD positions in the area of History of Translation/Science Studies. Topics related to Jesuit history, Jesuit presence in [...]

EUCHINA: June 17-19, 2020: International Jesuit Studies Symposium in Lisbon (Call for Papers)

August 5th, 2019|

Lisbon, Portugal - June 17–19, 2020 Engaging the World: The Jesuits and Their Presence in Global History Call for Papers | PDF Flyer Co-organized by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College and Brotéria in [...]

“Iberian Peace School: Natural Law and Human Dignity”: Special Issue of Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia

July 27th, 2019|Tags: , |

Issue 75 of Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (2019, vol. 2), edited by Pedro Calafate and Álvaro Balsas and entitled "The Iberian School of Peace. Natural Right and Human Dignity" is entirely devoted to the debate [...]

SISPM Conference – Universidade do Porto: “Finzione nel discorso filosofico medievale”

July 11th, 2019|

XXIV Convegno della Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (SISPM) Porto, Faculdade de Letras Via Panorâmica s/n Sala de reuniões (Aula riunioni, piano 2) 2-4 settembre 2019   Per il numero limitato di posti, [...]

“De Intellectu: Greek, Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew Texts and Their Influence… Tribute to R. R. Guerrero”

July 11th, 2019|

University of Porto, 6th-7th February 2020 Faculdade de Letras, Meetings room. Call for participation: Read more Philosophy changed radically during the Middle Ages as a result of the translation of a considerable number of texts [...]

“Baroque Scholasticism”: Special Issue of American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2019, 93)

June 11th, 2019|

This special issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2019, 93), edited by Petr Dvořák and Jacob Schmutz, is entirely devoted to Baroque Scholasticism, with the contribution of some of the most relevant specialists in the field. More [...]

“Suárez em Lisboa – 1617-2017” – Proceedings of the International Conference

June 11th, 2019|Tags: , , |

This volume contains and publishes the Proceedings of the International Conference "Suárez em Lisboa - 1617-2017", organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, 4-6 December 2017). The Proceedings are edited by Pedro Caridade [...]

Quaestio n. 18 (2019): The Question of the Thing / Francisco Suárez and the Foundations of Political Authority

June 5th, 2019|Tags: , |

Find out Quaestio's 18th issue, divided into two sections: "The Question of the Thing" (edited by Francesco Marrone), and "Francisco Suárez and the Foundations of Political Authority" (edited by Costantino Esposito). More information Table of Contents The [...]

International Symposium on Jesuit Studies – “Engaging Sources”

May 30th, 2019|

Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON JESUITS STUDIES | INCLUDING OFFICIAL PRESENTATION OF THE CONIMBRICENSES.ORG PROJECT Boston College, Gasson Hall | June 11–13, 2019 The Institute [...]

“Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity”, ed. by. R. A. Maryks and J. A. Senent de Frutos

May 19th, 2019|

This is a bilingual edition of the selected peer-reviewed papers that were submitted for the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies on the thought of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548–1617). The symposium was co-organized in Seville [...]

“Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity”, edited by Cristiano Casalini

March 27th, 2019|

Series: Jesuit Studies, Volume: 20 Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity, edited by Cristiano Casalini, is the first comprehensive volume to trace the origins and development of Jesuit philosophy during the first century of the [...]

“Les Méditations Métaphysiques. Objections et réponses de Descartes. Un Commentaire”, edited by Dan Arbib

March 27th, 2019|

This new commentary, published by Vrin in 2019 under the coordination of Prof. Dan Arbib, addresses Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, with a comprehensive analysis of the text, including Descartes' Replies to Objections. The commentary is indeed [...]

M. Favaretti Camposampiero, M. Priarolo, E. Scribano (eds.), Occasionalism. From Metaphysics to Science

March 18th, 2019|

Brepols - The Age of Descartes, 2 Traditionally interpreted as an outcome of Cartesian dualism, in recent years occasionalism has undergone serious reassessment. Scholars have shifted their focus from the post-Cartesian debates on the mind-body problem [...]

Divine Ideas in Franciscan Thought (XIIIth-XIVth Century), by Jacopo Falà and Irene Zavattero (eds)

February 18th, 2019|Tags: |

This volume presents a series of papers on the 13th and 14th century Franciscan debate on divine ideas. Most of the principal Franciscan authors of the time are considered: from Alexandre de Hales and the [...]

Conference: “The Iberian School of Peace. Natural Right and Human Dignity”, University of Coimbra, October 24th-25th, 2019

February 13th, 2019|

The Iberian School of Peace: Natural Right and Human Dignity. International Conference, Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, October 24th-25th, 2019 Organized by: Pedro Calafate – University of Lisbon/FCUL Mário Santiago de [...]

“L’angelo e la macchina” by Simone Guidi, about the scholastic roots of Descartes’ body-mind dualism

February 13th, 2019|

"L'angelo e la macchina. Sulla genesi della res cogitans cartesiana" is a book by Dr. Simone Guidi, published by FrancoAngeli, Italy in 2018, preface by Prof. Mário Santiago de Carvalho. The book provides with an exhaustive reading of [...]

Conference: “Francisco Suárez: Predecessors and Successors” – 26-27 April 2019, Loyola University Chicago

February 13th, 2019|

Francisco Suárez: Predecessors and Successors 26-27 April 2019 - Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus, Beane Hall Ballroom, Lewis Tower Speakers include: Brian Embry (Groningen), Helen Hattab (Houston), Sydney Penner (Asbury), Kara Richardson (Syracuse), Tad Schmaltz (Michigan), Christopher Shields (Notre Dame) The [...]

“O Curso Filosófico Jesuíta Conimbricense” by Mário Santiago de Carvalho, a complete introduction to the Cursus Conimbricensis

February 13th, 2019|

O Curso Filosófico Jesuíta Conimbricense, by Prof. Mário Santiago de Carvalho, can be fully downloaded for free by the University of Coimbra’s Estudo Geral. Please follow this link. The book, in Portuguese, has been published [...]

Lieu, espace, mouvement: physique, métaphysique et cosmologie (XIIe-XVIe siècles), edited by Tiziana Suarez-Nani, Olivier Ribordy, Antonio Petagine

December 10th, 2018|Tags: |

"Lieu, espace, mouvement: physique, métaphysique et cosmologie (XIIe-XVIe siècles). Actes du colloque international Université de Fribourg (Suisse), 12-14 mars 2015", is a collective volume edited by Tiziana Suarez-Nani, Olivier Ribordy, Antonio Petagine and pulished in [...]

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