Monthly Archives: February 2015

Social Applications of Logic for Society and Politics Submissions Due: 1 July 2015 For a long part of its history, the central aim of logic was to provide an inventory of schemata for valid arguments. The mathematical turn brought a revolutionary change of perspective and methods, which incurred the concern that the focus of this new […]

CFP: Scholarship, Print, and Polemics in Seventeenth-Century Germany Edited Volume  This is a call for abstracts or extracts of book chapters that explore scholarly practice in the Holy Roman German Empire of the seventeenth century. The proposed volume is specifically interested in exploring the interactions between scholarly practice, print technology, and the polemics associated with […]

CFP: Fourth Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference: ‘Political Theory at the Margins’ 8 May 2015, University of Oxford What lies at the margins of political theory? Which histories, experiences, and perspectives have been excluded or been absent from mainstream political theory, and why? How, if at all, should political theorists respond to such exclusions and revise […]

CFP: Panel on Apocalyptic Knowledge The Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (22-25 October 2015, Vancouver) “Multi pertransibunt et augebitur scientia.” The Vulgate translation of Daniel 12:4—“many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (KJV)—is familiar to scholars of early-modern intellectual history. Appearing on the frontispiece of Sir Francis Bacon’s Instauratio magna (1620), the line appears […]