The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 12 October 2013 in the Senate Room (1st floor, Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website.
Speaker: Philipp Nothaft (Warburg Institute): ‘Early Human History and the Uses of Diodorus in Renaissance Scholarship’
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.
