A Cure for the Mind: Philosophy between Individual Perfecting and Social Improvement

27.06.2025 1 -3 pm CET
Philosophy as Medicine: A Historical Overview

Francesco Fronterotta, Philosophy and Medicine
(Philosophy as Medicine) between Plato
and the Platonic Tradition.
Alice Ragni, Medicina mentis: A Reconstruction.
Lucia Oliveri, Philosophy as Medicine in the Early
Modern Period.

18.07.2025 1 - 3 pm CET
Tschirnhaus‘s Medicina Mentis et Corporis

Enrico Pasini, Necessity, Hypothesis, Rule: The
Epistemological Framework of Tschirnhaus's Medicine
of the Body.
Simone D‘Agostino, Remedies to Dysfunctions of the
Mind in von Tschirnhaus's Medicina mentis.
Mario Andrés Narvaez, Educating the Imagination:
Pedagogical Basis for a Scientific and Virtuous Life in
Tschirnhaus’s Medicina Mentis.

01.09.2025 1 - 3 pm CET
On Philosophy as Emendation and Individual Transformation

Igor Agostini, Wolff and the Emendation of the
Notion of Substance.
Dana Jalobeanu, Idolatry, Therapy and Extended
Cognition: The Fable of New Atlantis.
Martin Lenz, What is Rationalistic Therapy? Some
Notes on Spinoza.

31.10.2025 1 - 4 pm CET
A Cure for Prejudices and the Improvement of Education

Arnaud Pelletier, The Rhetoric of the
Contamination of Minds from Thomasius to Kant.
Sorana Corneanu, Locke’s Conduct, the Cure of
the Mind, and the Discovery of Principles.
Oscar Esquisabel, Leibniz’s Encyclopedia as a
Politics of Science: Individual and Collective
Progress.
Oliver R. Scholz, How Contemporary
Epistemology May Learn from the Tradition of
medicina mentis.