Our project “Human Being as a Crosspoint: The Beginnings of the Modern Concept of Man in the Middle Ages” is coming now to its end. It started in May 2018 and in the 24 months afterwords many good things were done – . As a project leader, I must say that I had the privilege to work with a great team – Amalia Soos, Vlad Ile and Lars Reuke joined form
EGSAMP Summer school Cluj 2020 – Call for papers
March 30, 2020
EGSAMP Summer School 2020 30. July – 01. August Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) CALL FOR PAPERS “Human Being as a Cross-Point” The EGSAMP (European Graduate School for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy) international summer school 2020 is organized by the project “Human Being As a Cross-Point: the Beginnings of the Modern Concept of Man in the Middle Ages“ (PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-2351), the Centre for Anciant and medieval Philosophy at the Faculty
Medicine and Philosophy II: CLIMATE
March 13, 2020
The workshop “Medicine and Philosophy” is taking place for a second time. After the successful international workshop “Medicine and Philosophy: the longue durée of humoral theory,” which we organized in cooperation with University of Groningen in May 2019 in Cluj, we decided to discuss once again on the intersection of medicine and philosophy and to focus on “Climate”. The historical notion of “climate” influences various aspects of natural or moral
Project Panel at the International Medieval Congress Leeds, July 2019
February 3, 2020
Only two months after the international workshop “Medicine and Philosophy” that our project organized in Cluj, we participated at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds 2019 with a special thematic strand “Materialities”. The Project sponsored the panel “Matter Matters: Albertus Magnus on the Subject Matter of Natural Philosophy.” The panel was chaired by the project leader, Evelina Miteva. The members of the team Vlad Ile, Lars Reuke and Andrei Bereschi presented their
Medicine and Philosophy 1: Humoral Theory
January 31, 2020
The workshop “Medicine and Philosophy: the longue durée of humoral theory” took place on May 10 and 11, 2019 at the University of Cluj. It was organized by the Team of the project, in collaboration with The Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought. Papers on different aspects of humoral theory in the Middle Ages, as well as its transformations in the Renaissance and in Early Modern authors, were
Medicine and Philosophy Workshop: Intro and Abstracts
May 6, 2019
Medicine and Philosophy: the longue durée of the humoral theory Evelina Miteva / Martin Lenz Why do we think, feel or interact the way we do? Historians of philosophy often study such questions in relation to metaphysical, physical or psychological theories. Accordingly, human behaviour is taken to have been conceptualised mainly in reference to talk about essential or general physical and psychological dispositions. However, in recent years this
Medicine and Philosophy Workshop – Program
March 12, 2019
On 10th and 11th of May at the University of Cluj is going to be held the Workshop “Medicine and Philosophy: The longue durée of humoral theory”. You can consult the definitive program of the event here: Program Please feel free to download and print the poster of the event and share it in your department: Poster
Call for Papers
December 10, 2018
Medicine and Philosophy: The Longue durée of the Humoral Theory 10-11 May 2019 Babeṣ-Bolyai University Cluj Organisation: Evelina Miteva (Cluj) and Martin Lenz (Groningen) Why do we think, feel or interact the way we do? Historians of philosophy often study such questions in relation to metaphysical, physical or psychological theories. Accordingly, human behaviour is taken to have been conceptualised mainly in reference to talk about essential or general physical and psychological
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