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Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists? A Critique of Pure Reason “avant la lettre”
Virtual“Pierre Bayle’s claims about the possibility of a society of virtuous atheists are one of the most famous ideas produced in Europe in the decades around 1700. More generally, Bayle’s intentions have been the subject of profound historiographical debate, even generating the idea of an insoluble ‘Bayle Enigma’. This talk will give a completely new […]
Creatures of the Imagination: Visualizing Monsters in the Early Modern Sciences
ZoomA workshop featuring talks by: Surekha Davies: "Life on the Edge: Imaginative Prototyping and Sea Monsters in Early Modern Europe" For early modern European naturalists, the ocean depths were the edges of the world. Making knowledge about deep sea life required distinctive approaches to identifying, collecting, and interpreting evidence from places that were almost unreachable […]
The Art of Glassmaking and the Nature of Stones
NJThis talk will focus on the article: The Art of Glassmaking and the Nature of Stones: The Role of Imitation in Anselm De Boodt's Classification of Stones, written by Sven Dupré and is available in pre-circulated form. This virtual talk with Q&A will be a lead up to the Faber Lecture. For the Zoom link and a […]
