DescartesLab
@descarteslab.bsky.social
#DescartesLaboratory is a research group directed by Fabrizio Baldassarri and Simone Guidi on the French philosopher René Descartes and the reception of his thought and science - online seminars and collaboration in events #17thcentury #histphilo #histsci
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Next season of #DescartesLab is now available⤵️
The first meeting is on Nov.11, 2025 - with Steve Nadler's book on La Forge. Then, we'll discuss Cartesian ontology, Cartesian linguistic and Descartes' politics - a broad array of topics, ranging from science to philosophy and social life #17thcentury
The first meeting is on Nov.11, 2025 - with Steve Nadler's book on La Forge. Then, we'll discuss Cartesian ontology, Cartesian linguistic and Descartes' politics - a broad array of topics, ranging from science to philosophy and social life #17thcentury
📣a Cartesian meeting at @sns.it #Descartes #Cartesianism with Simone D'Agostino! #histphilo #17thcentury
February 10, 2026 at 12:05 PM
📣a Cartesian meeting at @sns.it #Descartes #Cartesianism with Simone D'Agostino! #histphilo #17thcentury
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📣a publication by Igor Agostini (Director of the Cartesian Centre in Lecce) on René Descartes' pjhilosophy - in Italian
#descartes #17thcentury #Cartesianstudies #histphilo
www.morcelliana.net/collane-scho...
#descartes #17thcentury #Cartesianstudies #histphilo
www.morcelliana.net/collane-scho...
February 4, 2026 at 10:42 AM
📣a publication by Igor Agostini (Director of the Cartesian Centre in Lecce) on René Descartes' pjhilosophy - in Italian
#descartes #17thcentury #Cartesianstudies #histphilo
www.morcelliana.net/collane-scho...
#descartes #17thcentury #Cartesianstudies #histphilo
www.morcelliana.net/collane-scho...
Today event CANCELLED
Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, today's seminar will no take place. Sorry!
Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, today's seminar will no take place. Sorry!
This is next week, Tuesday 27th January - discussing ontology in Clauberg and the 17th century with Alice Ragni, Lucia Oliveri and Andrea Strazzoni (in English)
#DescartesLab #17thcentury #histphilo #Cartesianism
#DescartesLab #17thcentury #histphilo #Cartesianism
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Today event CANCELLED
Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, today's seminar will no take place. Sorry!
Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, today's seminar will no take place. Sorry!
A nice seminar organized in Venice/online - it remains difficult to discuss about mechanization and mechanical philosophy in the early modern period, and perhaps it is no more possible to do it with Descartes/Cartesian philo, but this is a great lineup of scholars #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
January 26, 2026 at 5:09 PM
A nice seminar organized in Venice/online - it remains difficult to discuss about mechanization and mechanical philosophy in the early modern period, and perhaps it is no more possible to do it with Descartes/Cartesian philo, but this is a great lineup of scholars #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
This is next week, Tuesday 27th January - discussing ontology in Clauberg and the 17th century with Alice Ragni, Lucia Oliveri and Andrea Strazzoni (in English)
#DescartesLab #17thcentury #histphilo #Cartesianism
#DescartesLab #17thcentury #histphilo #Cartesianism
January 22, 2026 at 5:36 PM
This is next week, Tuesday 27th January - discussing ontology in Clauberg and the 17th century with Alice Ragni, Lucia Oliveri and Andrea Strazzoni (in English)
#DescartesLab #17thcentury #histphilo #Cartesianism
#DescartesLab #17thcentury #histphilo #Cartesianism
apply to this conference on Francis Bacon quartercentenary 1626-2026 - The conference is organized by Dana Jalobeanu and Rodolfo Garau at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN). #histphilo #histsci
#17thcentury #Bacon
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#17thcentury #Bacon
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Francis Bacon 1626–2026: Four Centuries of Thought, New Horizons for Research University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), 12–13 June 2026
Application form
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January 22, 2026 at 2:32 PM
apply to this conference on Francis Bacon quartercentenary 1626-2026 - The conference is organized by Dana Jalobeanu and Rodolfo Garau at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN). #histphilo #histsci
#17thcentury #Bacon
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#17thcentury #Bacon
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a great discussion of Raphaele Andrault's book Le fer ou le feu (2024) - it's a great focus on pain as a crucial element to convey a philosophical investigation. #histsci #histmedicine are important in #histphilo #descartes
we presented it in @descarteslab.bsky.social #DescartesLab
we presented it in @descarteslab.bsky.social #DescartesLab
January 22, 2026 at 10:44 AM
a great discussion of Raphaele Andrault's book Le fer ou le feu (2024) - it's a great focus on pain as a crucial element to convey a philosophical investigation. #histsci #histmedicine are important in #histphilo #descartes
we presented it in @descarteslab.bsky.social #DescartesLab
we presented it in @descarteslab.bsky.social #DescartesLab
in the lastest isuee of Studia Neoaristotelica, there are 2 nice articles on Descartes - the one on laughter, the second on Mercer's interpretation of Descartes's relationship with Teresa d'Avila. #Descartes #17thcentury #histphilo #cartesianism
January 21, 2026 at 10:41 AM
in the lastest isuee of Studia Neoaristotelica, there are 2 nice articles on Descartes - the one on laughter, the second on Mercer's interpretation of Descartes's relationship with Teresa d'Avila. #Descartes #17thcentury #histphilo #cartesianism
📢Nov.19 - Method, science and truth in Descartes' Regulae ad directionem ingenii #Descartes #HistPhilo #histsci The event is blended - in Pisa at scuolanormale SSN and online
#17thcentury #method #induction 🌈
Contact the organizers if interested!
Here the programme
#17thcentury #method #induction 🌈
Contact the organizers if interested!
Here the programme
January 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM
📢Nov.19 - Method, science and truth in Descartes' Regulae ad directionem ingenii #Descartes #HistPhilo #histsci The event is blended - in Pisa at scuolanormale SSN and online
#17thcentury #method #induction 🌈
Contact the organizers if interested!
Here the programme
#17thcentury #method #induction 🌈
Contact the organizers if interested!
Here the programme
#PrincetonBucharestSeminar in Early Modern Philosophy, the 25th edition. This time, focus will be devoted to errors, falsehood and forgeries. Apply until January 15.
#earlymodern #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #errors
organizers are @rodolfogarau.bsky.social Dana Jalobeanu and Dan Garber!
#earlymodern #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #errors
organizers are @rodolfogarau.bsky.social Dana Jalobeanu and Dan Garber!
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
#PrincetonBucharestSeminar in Early Modern Philosophy, the 25th edition. This time, focus will be devoted to errors, falsehood and forgeries. Apply until January 15.
#earlymodern #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #errors
organizers are @rodolfogarau.bsky.social Dana Jalobeanu and Dan Garber!
#earlymodern #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #errors
organizers are @rodolfogarau.bsky.social Dana Jalobeanu and Dan Garber!
#IThinkThereforeJanuary26
#Descartes month schedule:
🧠
Jan.12 - Seminar Regulae (online) - Organized by Iacopo Chiaravalli, Igor Agostini, Alfredo Ferrarin - time: Italy
6:00 pm – F.Marrone: Regula V
7:00 pm – D.Arbib: Regula VI
📚
www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
#Descartes month schedule:
🧠
Jan.12 - Seminar Regulae (online) - Organized by Iacopo Chiaravalli, Igor Agostini, Alfredo Ferrarin - time: Italy
6:00 pm – F.Marrone: Regula V
7:00 pm – D.Arbib: Regula VI
📚
www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
René Descartes, Regulae ad directionem ingenii. Reading Seminar – Séminaire de lecture | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
The seminar will consist of a commented reading of the entire text of Descarte's Regulae ad directionem ingenii. The first meeting will take place on Monday, November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM (CET). All ot...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#IThinkThereforeJanuary26
#Descartes month schedule:
🧠
Jan.12 - Seminar Regulae (online) - Organized by Iacopo Chiaravalli, Igor Agostini, Alfredo Ferrarin - time: Italy
6:00 pm – F.Marrone: Regula V
7:00 pm – D.Arbib: Regula VI
📚
www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
#Descartes month schedule:
🧠
Jan.12 - Seminar Regulae (online) - Organized by Iacopo Chiaravalli, Igor Agostini, Alfredo Ferrarin - time: Italy
6:00 pm – F.Marrone: Regula V
7:00 pm – D.Arbib: Regula VI
📚
www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
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Happy for this book review of my "René Descartes's Natural Philosophy and Particular bodies" written by Andrea Strazzoni In the latest issue of the Rivista di filosofia #descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo #physics
the review is here: www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1413/...
the review is here: www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1413/...
December 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Happy for this book review of my "René Descartes's Natural Philosophy and Particular bodies" written by Andrea Strazzoni In the latest issue of the Rivista di filosofia #descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo #physics
the review is here: www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1413/...
the review is here: www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1413/...
It's today! #DescartesJanuary26 in Italy starts with this pre-event in Venice on the #Regulae #Descartes
Then:
Jan12: online event on Rules 4 & 5 of the Regulae
Jan19: in Pisa & online on Rules 7, 8 & 9
Jan21-23: in Torino, #DescarteForum
Jan27: #DescartesLab on ontology
🐻 with us #histphilo
Then:
Jan12: online event on Rules 4 & 5 of the Regulae
Jan19: in Pisa & online on Rules 7, 8 & 9
Jan21-23: in Torino, #DescarteForum
Jan27: #DescartesLab on ontology
🐻 with us #histphilo
#Cartesian event in Venice, organized with the #DescartesLab collaboration, on the recent edition of #Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii. The event is blended.
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
December 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It's today! #DescartesJanuary26 in Italy starts with this pre-event in Venice on the #Regulae #Descartes
Then:
Jan12: online event on Rules 4 & 5 of the Regulae
Jan19: in Pisa & online on Rules 7, 8 & 9
Jan21-23: in Torino, #DescarteForum
Jan27: #DescartesLab on ontology
🐻 with us #histphilo
Then:
Jan12: online event on Rules 4 & 5 of the Regulae
Jan19: in Pisa & online on Rules 7, 8 & 9
Jan21-23: in Torino, #DescarteForum
Jan27: #DescartesLab on ontology
🐻 with us #histphilo
📣 #bluestorians the next meeting of the #DescartesLab is on Jan.27, 2026, at 3.00 pm (CET time) - we discuss ontology in the seventeenth century with the lastest book of Alice Ragni!
The meeting is in English! #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo #ontology #Descartes #Cartesianis email us for contact
The meeting is in English! #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo #ontology #Descartes #Cartesianis email us for contact
December 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
📣 #bluestorians the next meeting of the #DescartesLab is on Jan.27, 2026, at 3.00 pm (CET time) - we discuss ontology in the seventeenth century with the lastest book of Alice Ragni!
The meeting is in English! #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo #ontology #Descartes #Cartesianis email us for contact
The meeting is in English! #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo #ontology #Descartes #Cartesianis email us for contact
the poster for the next #ForumDescartes is ready
See you in Turin, January 21-23 for this great event on #Descartes and #seventeenthcentury #histphilo #histsci #Cartesianism with several leading scholars and very good graduate students! Let us #revive #Descartesphilo #Descartesscience
See you in Turin, January 21-23 for this great event on #Descartes and #seventeenthcentury #histphilo #histsci #Cartesianism with several leading scholars and very good graduate students! Let us #revive #Descartesphilo #Descartesscience
December 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
the poster for the next #ForumDescartes is ready
See you in Turin, January 21-23 for this great event on #Descartes and #seventeenthcentury #histphilo #histsci #Cartesianism with several leading scholars and very good graduate students! Let us #revive #Descartesphilo #Descartesscience
See you in Turin, January 21-23 for this great event on #Descartes and #seventeenthcentury #histphilo #histsci #Cartesianism with several leading scholars and very good graduate students! Let us #revive #Descartesphilo #Descartesscience
another fascinating podcast on #premodern #atomism ... the interaction between corpuscular philosophy and living nature still remains a huge point in seventeenth-century understanding of nature #seventeenthcentury #Democritus
New podcast for you today: the revival of atomism in the 17th century! We look especially at Gassendi and Basso.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom...
#philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast
www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom...
#philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
another fascinating podcast on #premodern #atomism ... the interaction between corpuscular philosophy and living nature still remains a huge point in seventeenth-century understanding of nature #seventeenthcentury #Democritus
a #Cartesianevent #Descartes - a series on the Regulae, organized by Igor Agostini, Iacopo Chiaravalli and Alberto Ferrarin #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury
The event is online - programme here: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
The event is online - programme here: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
a #Cartesianevent #Descartes - a series on the Regulae, organized by Igor Agostini, Iacopo Chiaravalli and Alberto Ferrarin #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury
The event is online - programme here: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
The event is online - programme here: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
#DescartesLab
December 19, 2025 - book presentation and discussion of Descartes' Regulae ad directionem ingenii, an early manuscript version
Venue: Venice
Time: 3.30 pm (Italy, CET time)
The event is blended
See here: www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
#17thcentury #histphilo #method
#Descartes
December 19, 2025 - book presentation and discussion of Descartes' Regulae ad directionem ingenii, an early manuscript version
Venue: Venice
Time: 3.30 pm (Italy, CET time)
The event is blended
See here: www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
#17thcentury #histphilo #method
#Descartes
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#DescartesLab
December 19, 2025 - book presentation and discussion of Descartes' Regulae ad directionem ingenii, an early manuscript version
Venue: Venice
Time: 3.30 pm (Italy, CET time)
The event is blended
See here: www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
#17thcentury #histphilo #method
#Descartes
December 19, 2025 - book presentation and discussion of Descartes' Regulae ad directionem ingenii, an early manuscript version
Venue: Venice
Time: 3.30 pm (Italy, CET time)
The event is blended
See here: www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
#17thcentury #histphilo #method
#Descartes
#Cartesian event in Venice, organized with the #DescartesLab collaboration, on the recent edition of #Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii. The event is blended.
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#Cartesian event in Venice, organized with the #DescartesLab collaboration, on the recent edition of #Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii. The event is blended.
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
#histphilo #histsci #earlymodernbooks #17thcentury #epistemology
We are pleased to support #DescartesAge #DescartesLaboratory
We are deep into discussing what is the moral connection between La Forge, the good Cartesian, and Descartes and inheritance and deviation of Cartesians from the teachings of Descartes! some matter to reflect #descartes #descarteslab #cartesianism #histphilo #17thcentury
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We are deep into discussing what is the moral connection between La Forge, the good Cartesian, and Descartes and inheritance and deviation of Cartesians from the teachings of Descartes! some matter to reflect #descartes #descarteslab #cartesianism #histphilo #17thcentury
this is today at 5 pm (CET) - join us!
Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
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November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
this is today at 5 pm (CET) - join us!
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Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
a great podcast by Gideon Manning, one of the best in shedding ligh on all the cornerns of #Descartesmedicine. In the Meditationes Descartes opposes the certainty of the ego cogito with the uncertainties of the human nature, the topic of medical knowledge
#histsci
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#histsci
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November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
a great podcast by Gideon Manning, one of the best in shedding ligh on all the cornerns of #Descartesmedicine. In the Meditationes Descartes opposes the certainty of the ego cogito with the uncertainties of the human nature, the topic of medical knowledge
#histsci
works.hcommons.org/records/pzyj...
#histsci
works.hcommons.org/records/pzyj...
Two events at Fribourg University in Switzerland, with Francesco Marrone discussing #Descartes #Cartesianism and #Scholasticism at large, especially dealing with doubt, will, reality, and objectification #17thcentury #histphilo
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Two events at Fribourg University in Switzerland, with Francesco Marrone discussing #Descartes #Cartesianism and #Scholasticism at large, especially dealing with doubt, will, reality, and objectification #17thcentury #histphilo