Monthly Archives: October 2018

New Book: Science in an Enchanted World: Philosophy and Witchcraft in the Work of Joseph Glanvill

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 30, 2018

New Book: Science in an Enchanted World: Philosophy and Witchcraft in the Work of Joseph Glanvill Julie Davies Best known as the Saducismus triumphatus (1681), Joseph Glanvill’s book on witchcraft is among the most frequently published from the seventeenth century, and its arguments for the reality of diabolic witchcraft elicited passionate responses from critics and supporters […]

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New Book: Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 30, 2018

New Book: Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences Editors: James A. T. Lancaster & Richard Raiswell The motto of the Royal Society—Nullius in verba—was intended to highlight the members’ rejection of received knowledge and the new place they afforded direct empirical evidence in their quest for genuine, useful knowledge about the world. But […]

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New ISIH Facebook Group

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 28, 2018

New ISIH Facebook Group The International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) has created a new Facebook Group, and will be phasing out the old Facebook page in the next three weeks. This is to allow the Society to take advantage of the new tools available through the Facebook Groups platform. To continue receiving announcement from […]

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CfP: Social Technologies and Global Knowledge Economies 1750-1850

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 23, 2018

CfP: Social Technologies and Global Knowledge Economies 1750-1850 4-6 April 2019, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen The remarkable density of connections that characterized knowledge production between 1750 and 1850 has long figured in definitions of the “rise of modernity.” The commerce of ideas through correspondence networks and print as well as manuscript circulation in salons, learned societies and […]

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CfP: “The great protector of wits.” D’Holbach 1789-2019

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 6, 2018

CfP: “The great protector of wits.” D’Holbach 1789-2019 9-11 May 2019, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen 230 years after his death, Baron Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach (1723-1789) continues to be a challenging figure of the European Enlightenment. Not only was he a materialistic philosopher, a champion of anticlericalism, the author of the monumental Système de la nature known as […]

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CfP: Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 6, 2018

CfP: Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley 5-6 April 2019, Trinity College Dublin Scholars in any academic discipline are invited to submit abstracts of papers to be presented at the Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley conference, to be held in Trinity College Dublin, 5 and 6 April 2019. The conference aims to explore […]

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Job: PhD Fellowship in Intellectual History of Architectural Theory

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 6, 2018

Job: PhD Fellowship in Intellectual History of Architectural Theory KU Leuven The PhD-fellow will work in the research context of the research group ARP (Architectural Cultures of the Recent Past) at KU Leuven’s Department of Architecture: http://www.arp-kuleuven.be and the Centre for Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Culture at KU Leuven’s Institute of Philosophy (https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc). Project The […]

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