Monthly Archives: October 2015

CFP: Pseudo-Paracelsus: Alchemy and Forgery in Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy  25–28 July 2016, Villa Vigoni, Italy The production of forgeries under Paracelsus’s name was an integral part of the diffusion of Paracelsianism. Many of those forgeries were widely read and extremely influential, not only in the fields of medicine and “chymistry” (alchemy/chemistry), but also […]

CFP: The End of the World, a Universal Imagination 8-10 June 2016, International Symposium Nantes Myths related to the end of the world are numerous and have resulted in a significant literature. The expression of this universal fear can indeed take various forms: myths, religious beliefs, cosmological systems, fiction, etc. Some aspects of ecological thought themselves […]

Call for Submissions: Pragmatism in Transition: Contemporary Perspectives on C. I. Lewis Co-edited by Peter Olen and Carl Sachs (Palgrave Macmillan) Once relatively neglected in the pantheon of American philosophy, C. I. Lewis’s work is receiving renewed attention in both philosophical and historical circles. While there are excellent surveys and introductions to Lewis’s work, there […]

CFP: David Hume and Political Realism for Societate și Politică Invited editors: Tamas Demeter and Gabor Zoltan Szucs Conflict is the essence of politics, and it is about power in the first place”, “Good institutions cannot replace good politicians”, “Politics is the way it is because human rationality is limited and people are morally imperfect”, or […]