Talks

2022

Dana Jalobeanu, Bacon’s induction and the construction of “science”, Proof in Early Modern Philosophy, Prague 19-21 mai 2022 (online) Proof in Natural Philosophy. Between Antiquity and the Early Modern Period – Institute of Philosohpy AS CR (cas.cz).

Dana Jalobeanu, Francis Bacon on axioms, laws, rules and principle: an investigation into the aggregation of a scientific vocabulary, International colloquium on Axioms in Early Modern World organized by Vincenzo de Risi, Laboratoire SPHERE, Universite Diderot, Paris, 13 June 2022.

Dana Jalobeanu, Enacting recipes and the emergence of experiment: transformations of the recipe format in Della Porta’ Magia naturalis, international conference New Perspectives on Giovan Battista della Porta, Warburg Institute, University of London, 23 June 2022 (online) Rethinking Natural Magic: New Perspectives on Giambattista Della Porta | The Warburg Institute (sas.ac.uk).

Dana Jalobeanu, The Novum Organum as a system of practice(s), international conference, New and Old Organons, Universite de Sorbonne, Paris, 27-29 June 2022 , Anciens et nouveaux organons. Techniques de savoir entre XVIe et XVIIe siècles | UMR 8103 – ISJPS (pantheonsorbonne.fr).

Dana Jalobeanu, The fictional politics of scientific collaboration: Solomon Houses in Early Modern Europe, plenary talk at ESHS 2022, Bruxelles, September 2022, Plenary Lectures – Programme » ESHS Brussels 2022

Dana Jalobeanu, Bubbles, bladders and the ‘folds of matter’: enactment and concept formation from Bacon to Boyle, ESHS Conference, Brussels, 07-10 September 2020. Organized panel: Recipes, experiments, and the interplay between practice and concept-formation in early modern philosophy.

Dana Jalobeanu, Reflections on paradigm-shifts: vitalism, mechanism and experimental philosophy, at the International Conference On the Objectivity of Scientific Knowledge. Models and Theoretical Representations of Structure and Progress in Science. Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy, organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Romanian Academy, 29 September-3 October 2022.

Dana Jalobeanu, Constructing Baconian Science: Henry Power’s ‘Experimental Philosophy’, The Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, ICUB-Humanities, 14-15 October 2022.

Dana Jalobeanu, Henry Power’s Baconian Science of Life, in the international colloquium, The Anatomy of Vegetation, Organized at the Western University Vasile Goldiș; by Oana Matei, 10-11 November 2022.

Dana Jalobeanu, Cartesianism, Baconianism and the new science: Henry Power’s Experimental Philosophy, invited talk at the CEU University, Vienna, 15 November 2022.

Dana Jalobeanu, The shifting tides of Baconianism: a history (and philosophy) of historiographic categories, conference KUHN 100 organized by the Department of Theoretical Philosophy and CELFIS, 18-19 November 2022 (online)

Dana Jalobeanu, Henry Power’s manuscripts and the making of the Experimental philosophy, Princeton Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 22 November 2022 (online) (2) Henry Power’s Experimental Philosophy (PBVS 69) – YouTube

Oana Matei, Building and Early Modern Science of Vegetation: Nehemiah Grew’s Inquiries into the ‘Anatomy of Plants’, at The Making of the Anatomy of Plants, 4A LAB Berlin, 09-10 March 2022 (online).

Oana Matei, Building and Early Modern Science of Vegetation: Nehemiah Grew’s Inquiries into the ‘Anatomy of Plants’, at the Rethinking the Constituents of Early Modern Science, University of Bucharest, 12 May 2022.

Oana Matei, Vegetation, Fermentation. and Digestion. Nehemiah Grew’s Conceptual Vocabulary in ‘The Anatomy of Plants’, ESHS Conference, Brussels, 07-10 September 2022. Organized panel: Recipes, experiments, and the interplay between practice and concept-formation in early modern philosophy.

Oana Matei, Henry Power’s Observations on Plants, The Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, ICUB-Humanities, 14-15 October 2022.

Oana Matei, Corpuscles and Spiritual Matter: Henry Power’s Observations on Plants in the Experimental Philosophy, Henry Power’s Experimental Philosophy (PBVS 69) – YouTube

Alexandru Liciu, Was Robert Hooke a World Maker? On the Use of Collecting for the Making of History, Postgraduate Research Day, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 21 April 2022.

Alexandru Liciu, Robert Hooke’s Science of ‘Petrifaction’ and the Accademia dei Lincei, at the 9th Edition of the Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy, ICUB-Humanities, 15-16 October 2022.

2021

Dana Jalobeanu, Burning glasses from magic to science: the anatomy of a turning point, invited talk in the weekly seminar of the Department of Theoretical Science/CELFIS, 22 november 2021

Dana Jalobeanu, The „Missing Results” of Bacon’s tables: Or Reading the Novum organum in context, international colloquium Recipes transformed, 18-19 and 26 November 2021.

Dana Jalobeanu, “Whose practice? Francis Bacon’s rules of experientia literata in context”, at the Thomas Harriot in Global and Local Contexts: A Quatercentenary Conference, The Thomas Harriot Seminar and The Warburg Institute, 16 September 2021, online. More info here;

Dana Jalobeanu, ”Emblems as Epistemic Tools and Heuristic Devices: An Exercise on Perspectival Contextualism”, at the Histories of Science and the Humanities conference, European Society for the History of Science and The Research Centre of the Humanities, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 23 September 2021, online. More info here;

Dana Jalobeanu, “Francis Bacon on instruments of detection and instruments of measure”, at the Promises of Precision – Questioning ‘Precision’ in Precision Instruments workshop, Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 29-30 September 2021, online.

Dana Jalobeanu, Experimenting with artificial life. Francis Bacon on the Historia de animato et inanimato, British Society for the Philosophy of Science, June 2021

Dana Jalobeanu, Bubbles, bladders and the “folds of matter”: on the interplay between experimentation and metaphysics in Baconian natural and experimental histories, The research seminar of CELFIS & Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 17 May 2021

Oana Matei, ‘Plants as Instruments of Knowledge in Early Modern Natural Philosophy’, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Seminario de Formacao Avancada em Jardins, Peisagens e Ambiente, 26 February 2021 (invited speaker).

Oana Matei, “Particles and Spirits: Fundamental Processes of Nature in Mid-Seventeenth Century Studies of Plants,” Plants in Early Modern Knowledge: History, Philosophy, and Medicine, Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Thought, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, 28.04.2021, 17:30-19:30. Session organized on Zoom.

Oana Matei, Fabrizio Baldassarri, “Plants in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Mechanico/Chymical Investigations,” Princeton Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 04.05.2021, 20:00-22:00. Session organized on Zoom.

Oana Matei, Building an Early Modern Science of Vegetation: Nehemiah Grew’s Inquiries into the ‘Anatomy of Plants’, international colloquium Recipes transformed, 18-19 and 26 November 2021.

Alexandru Liciu, John Woodward’s ‘Test’ of Observation and the Issue of Civil History, international colloquium Recipes transformed, 18-19 and 26 November 2021.

2020

Dana Jalobeanu, Baconianism and Newtonianism: a history (and philosophy) of shifting historiographic categories, plenary talk as invited speaker at the Panhellenic Conference in Philosophy of Science, December 2020. You can listen to a version of this talk here (given at the Annual Workshop of Philosophy of Science, University of Bergen, November 2019). Online.