[MaFLa] Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Bran, Transylvania

[Pavlovits Tamás]

Kedves Kollégák!

Mellékelem a Bukaresti Egyetem és a Princeton Filozófia Tanszékeinek közös,
14. nyári egyetemének felhívását, amely hagyományosan Brassó mellett,
Bran-ban kerül megrendezésre.

Üdvözlettel
Pavlovits Tamás



*Objet : *Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Bran, Transylvania





*BUCHAREST-PRINCETON SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY    14th Edition *
Organized by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought
(FME), University of Bucharest, in collaboration with the Philosophy
Department at Princeton University

8 – 13 July 2014
Bran, Romania


*   De rerum natura: Naturalism, Supernaturalism, Unnaturalism *
Invited speakers include: Daniel Garber (Princeton), Roger Ariew (South
Florida), Igor Agostini (Università del Salento), Peter Anstey (Sydney),
Olivier Dubouclez (Liège), Justin E.H. Smith (Paris), Tamás Pavlovits
(Szeged), Jennifer Rampling (Princeton), Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent).


This seminar is concerned with early-modern conceptions of nature in the
broadest sense. We will inquire into definitions of the natural and of what
lies beyond or goes against it within several quarters of early modern
thought, from the late Renaissance up to the early eighteenth century. In
line with the important influence that Lucretius’s great Epicurean poem,
“De rerum natura,” had at the time, we will raise the issue of naturalism,
and attempts in figures as diverse as Cardano, Telesio, Bacon, Hobbes, or
Spinoza to explain everything or nearly everything in naturalistic terms.
The Epicurean, as well as Stoic and Platonic, influences are also at work
in the traditions of natural history, from Pliny to Bacon and beyond, as
well as in the new trends of medicine, natural magic, astrology,and
alchemy, where reflections on the scope of the natural went hand in hand
with practical thinking about technological and experimental intervention
into nature. Drawing the boundaries of the natural and exploring the
territory of the un-natural, preter-natural or contra-natural (whether in
the form of ghosts, demons, monsters, or diseases) was also a powerful
early modern concern. There was also the key development of new definitions
of nature articulated in terms of natural laws and of their relationship
with God, as well as discussions of the infinite and the finite with
reference to both the natural and the super-natural worlds, such as in
Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, or Newton. Whether committed to vital(ist) or
to mechanical frames of thought, and whether using the instruments of
physics, metaphysics, or mathematics, of medicine, alchemy, or the
interventionist arts, these early modern inquiries asked fundamental
questions about the boundaries of the natural, the structure and potential
of matter, the status of the mind and the status of the human being with
respect to nature.

The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is an
international annual meeting of scholars interested in various aspects of
early modern thought. The aim of the seminar is to create a stimulating
environment for discussing papers and ideas. It includes workshops in the
morning and presentations of papers in the afternoon, where participants
can present work in progress. While the morning sessions will focus on the
theme of “*De rerum natura*: Naturalism, Supernaturalism, Unnaturalism*,*”
the afternoon sessions seek to give participants the opportunity to discuss
their own special interests with an open and sympathetic audience of
students and scholars with broad interests in early modern thought.
Throughout we try to maintain a balance between the high scholarly level
and the informal friendly spirit of a colloquium.

The Seminar will take place in Bran, a small mountain resort near Brasov,
in Transylvania. It will be hosted in a small, friendly Bed and Breakfast
(single or double rooms). The participation fee is 150 EUR for faculty and
90 EUR for students (covering accommodation with breakfast). We invite
applications for contributions (from researchers) and for attendance (from
students). If you want to contribute a paper, please send a CV and a
one-page abstract, and if you want to attend, a CV and a letter of intent – *by
April 20* – to Vlad Alexandrescu (valexandrescu at gmail.com <
mailto:valexandrescu at gmail.com <valexandrescu at gmail.com>> ), Dana Jalobeanu
(dana.jalobeanu at celfis.ro
<mailto:dana.jalobeanu at celfis.ro<dana.jalobeanu at celfis.ro>>
).

Pavlovits Tamás

egyetemi docens
SZTE BTK Filozófia Tanszék
6722 Szeged
Petőfi S. sgt. 30-34.
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