The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 18 October 2014 in Room G35 (1st floor, Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. The speaker will be Koji Yamamoto (King’s College London): ‘Medicine, Metals and Empire: A Paracelsian Chymist at the Rise of Public Science’. Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website.
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.