More information and purchase In his monumental "On Justice and Rights", the Jesuit Luis de Molina (1535-1600) discussed the legal and ethical aspects of the Portuguese trade in African and Asian enslaved persons. Molina surveys, develops, and problematizes the criteria [...]
More information and download "I was then in Germany, where the occasion of the wars which are not yet over had called me...". This is how the anonymous author of the Discourse on Method (1637) begins his account of an [...]
More information Summer School 2024 The Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Thematic Line (Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto) is pleased to announce the first Porto Summer School on Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. Focused on Medieval Theories [...]
More information and download This new book by Rafael Ramis Barceló, deputy director of the IEHM, is entitled La Segunda Escolástica. A proposal for historical synthesis. This publication, the result of many years of study, is the first manual that [...]
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 of Ideas (ILIESI - CNR). [...]
More information Organized by Igor Agostini @ the "Centro Dipartimentale di studi su Descartes e il Seicento" (Lecce), in collaboration with the "Centre d’études cartésienne" of the Sorbonne University. The seminar is organized within the PRIN 2022 PNRR Project: SOPHIA. [...]
More information Conference organized by Sophie Roux, Ecole Normale Supérieure, in partnership with ENS - PSL (Translitterae, République des savoirs), ENS Lyon (IHRIM, ERC NOTCOM), Université Paris-Diderot (SPHERE, ERC PHILIUMM), Université Paris-Nanterre (IREPH, Extending New Narratives in the History of [...]
More information Research seminar hosting Nicola Polloni (MSCA Research Fellow at the University of Porto currently on secondment at UCLouvain), who will present his project “Globalizing Hylomorphism: Matter and Materiality Between Europe and China in the 16th Century”
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 rational science in modern times. An [...]
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 pedagogical practices and institutional concerns, [...]
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 first part of the book [...]
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. Yet, it is for sure [...]
