Organized in collaboration with the Philosophy \;Department at Princeton University
Invited speakers include: Igor Agostini (Università\; del Salento)\, Stefano \;Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)\, \;Daniel Garber (Princeton University)\, Sophie Roux (Ecole Normale \;Supé\;rieure\, Paris)\, Emanuela Scribano (Università\; Ca'Foscari Venezia)
History is written by the victors -- but not when it comes to the \;Scientific Revolution. Revisionist historiographies in the post-Kuhnian \;tradition have often championed the losers. Questioning the traditional \;accounts (Whiggish or Marxist)\, recent narratives of the scientific \;revolution have drastically altered the portraits of the relevant actors\, \;parties and currents of thought\, while also questioning the categories and \;concepts formerly used to tell the story of the emergence (or &lsquo\;origins&rsquo\;) of \;modern science. However\, not all the traditional historiographical \;categories have been replaced: narratives in terms of 'winners' and \;'losers' still prevail. Meanwhile\, intellectual historians have begun to \;ask a number of questions relative to these categories\, such as:
Our seminar invites reflection on such (and related) issues and \;investigation of particular cases that may illuminate them. It aims to do \;so by using the vantage point of the losers (variously defined)\, which may \;be the more profitable in trying to understand what exactly is going on
when &lsquo\;you win some\, you lose some&rsquo\;.
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 &ldquo\;The Losers of the Scientific Revolution*\,*&rdquo\; the afternoon \;sessions seek to give participants an 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 &ndash\; \;*by April 20* &ndash\; to Vlad Alexandrescu (valexandrescu@gmail.com)\, Sorana \;Corneanu (soranacorneanu@yahoo.com)\, Dana Jalobeanu (dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro).