The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 6 December 2014 in Room G35 (1st floor, Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. The speakers will be Megan Kitching (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Stubborn matter: Lucretian Atomism and the Poetry of Early-Modern Natural Philosophy’; and Cassie Gorman (University of Cambridge): ‘Feeling Inside the Atom in Seventeenth-Century Literature’. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website.
The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) is to provide a London forum for scholars working in the history of philosophy, intellectual history and the history of science of Europe in the period 1400-1650. The term ‘philosophy’ is interpreted in its fullest Renaissance sense, and includes such themes as: Neoplatonism, scholasticism and late Aristotelian philosophy, Epicureanism, stoicism, scepticism, cosmological theories, the classification of the disciplines, encyclopaedism, Lullism, the art of memory, the philosophy of mathematics, theories of the soul, theories of language and signs, etc.
Convenors: Dr Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London): s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk, Dr Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary, University of London): anthonyossar@gmail.com.
PLEASE NOTE: THESE SEMINARS ARE VERY POPULAR AND THE MEETING ROOM IS OFTEN VERY FULL.
