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#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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Correct time is 3 pm Rome/Paris/Berlin - 2 pm London - 10 am New York - 9 am Chicago 🕙

07.03.2026 16:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As it happens, we made a small mistake about the time schedule, which is:
3 pm (Rome/Paris/Berlin time), 2 pm (London time), 🕙10 am (Ny city time), 9 am (Chicago time) --- please, note the change

Sorry for the inconvenience #descartes #descarteslab #earlymodern #17thcentury #histphilo

07.03.2026 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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seminar: bodies, minds, and dualisms at the Seminario cartesiano di Villa Mirafiori - #Cartesnism #Descartes #dualism #17thcentury #hisfphilo

all info in the poster

04.03.2026 13:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

of course! looking very forward to it! thanks!

03.03.2026 14:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📣Next meeting - #DescartesLab
March 27, 2026 - at 3.00 pm (Italy time) / 9.00 am (NY city)

Discussion of Elodie Cassan's Le langage de la raison (Vrin, 2023) - the meeting is in English and online

#histphilo #17thcentury #ageofreason #Descartes #cartesianism - attendance is free

02.03.2026 12:33 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
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📣a Cartesian meeting at @sns.it #Descartes #Cartesianism with Simone D'Agostino! #histphilo #17thcentury

10.02.2026 12:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Animals - 6.1 Automata and animal bodies Despite the efficacy of Descartes's animal-machine analogy, a crucial issue affects his mechanization of animal bodies. This reduction works for the animal in general, that is an abstract representati...

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on animals and automata in Descartes

06.02.2026 14:09 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

04.02.2026 10:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Today event CANCELLED

Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, today's seminar will no take place. Sorry!

27.01.2026 13:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

26.01.2026 17:09 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

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

22.01.2026 17:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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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

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
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

22.01.2026 14:32 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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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

22.01.2026 10:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

21.01.2026 10:41 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

📢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

13.01.2026 16:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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#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!

11.01.2026 14:17 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

🌱Feb.2: Regulae seminar (online) - Organized by Iacopo Chiaravalli, Igor Agostini, Alfredo Ferrarin - time: Italy

18.00 pm - Olivier Dubouclez: Rule X
19.00 - Fabrizio Baldassarri & Simone Guidi: Rule XI

It is going to be a full month! Do 🐻 with us!

23.12.2025 14:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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January 27, 2026 – Presentation of Alice Ragni, Il secolo dell’ontologia Contact us for the link – the event is in English! [Back]

Jan. 27: DescartesLab (online)
Event with the presentation and discussion of Alice Ragni's book on ontology in the seventeenth century - with Andrea Strazzoni, Lucia Oliveri, Marco Lamanna

fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/j...

23.12.2025 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Jan.21-23: ForumDescartes (University of Turin), organizers: Antonella Del Prete et alii

Check the programme below⤵️

www.accademiadellescienze.it/iniziative/2... The forum is a good chance of gathering with Cartesian scholars in Italy and in the world!

23.12.2025 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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...

Jan.19 - Seminar Regulae (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa&online) - Organized by Chiaravalli, Agostini, Ferrarin
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10:00 am – I.Agostini: Attribute and science in Descartes

11:30 – F.Baldassarri: Regula VII

3:00 – D.Garber: Regula VIII
4:30 – M.Mantovani: Regula IX

www.sns.it/it/evento/re...

23.12.2025 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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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...

#IThinkThereforeJanuary26
#Descartes month schedule:
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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
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www.sns.it/it/evento/re...

23.12.2025 14:53 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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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/...

20.12.2025 14:38 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

sure! thanks!

19.12.2025 09:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

19.12.2025 09:32 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
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sorry for the typo in the poster - it is January 27, 2026

16.12.2025 07:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 #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

15.12.2025 17:27 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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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

14.12.2025 12:15 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

14.12.2025 12:13 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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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...

20.11.2025 16:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

#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

20.11.2025 10:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0