Monthly Archives: September 2013

Platonism after Plato in the Renaissance 7-8 November 2013, The Warburg Institute, London The conference will focus on the early modern reception of Plotinus and the post-Plotinian Platonists. Among the topics which will be discussed are: Marsilio Ficino’s translation of and commentary on the Enneads and his translation of works by Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus; the different […]

Winter School: Modes of Technoscientific Knowledge 19-25 January 2014, Chalet Giersch, Manigod, France Following the “practical turn” in history of science and science studies in the late decades of the 20th century, a “thing turn” has occurred in the philosophy of science and technology. Epistemology scholars are more and more concerned with “thing knowledge” rather than with theoretical representations (Baird 2004). The […]

Workshop: Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe 20-21 September 2013, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science This workshop takes colour practices, cutting across the categories of art, craft, science and technology, as its central category of analysis. The contributions deal with a diversity of practices, ranging from painting, limning and colour printing to […]

Place/s of Thinking: On the Claims of Inter “Cultural” Philosophy 26-28 September 2013, University of Vienna Thinking happens at/in a place. Obviously, there always needs to be a site or a point of view where thinking occurs—a place at which a thought manifests, arrives, changes itself and proceeds along in new ways. At first, this statement sounds trivial and obvious. […]