Seminar - Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age

Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age

Organization: Silvia Di Donato (CNRS, SPHERE)

Joint seminar bringing together researchers from the CHSPAM center, consisting of study days, round tables or symposiums. It provides an opportunity for work and debate on texts, themes, doctrinal and methodological issues relating to medieval Greek-Arabic, Hebrew and Latin philosophical and scientific traditions. It highlights the richness of our fields of research, and how they fit together.

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Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach.

Organization: E. Claire (CRH), B. Delaurenti (EHESS), R. Poma (Paris 12), K. Vermeir (CNRS, SPHere)

The notion of imagination is today considered as an object of study in its own right, after having long been discredited by scientific research. Nevertheless, in modern and contemporary literature, the imagination is generally presented in a negative way, as a mental faculty capable of causing error, illusion or sin. We would like to go against this conception by studying an alternative and little-known intellectual and practical tradition: from the 12th-13th centuries to the beginning of the 19th century, thinkers and practitioners belonging to various disciplines, expressing themselves from various institutional positions, have supported the idea that the imagination possesses great powers.

As in previous years, the seminar will work from and around the texts in the manner of a workshop, by endeavoring to implement a collective work of discussion, analysis and confrontation of sources over the long term.

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Graminaire 2024

Organization : Prof. Pierre-Marie MOREL

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Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

Organization : C. Murgier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et Gramata/CHSPAM–SPHere), en collaboration avec le Centre Léon Robin, Sorbonne-Université et l’Université Paris Nanterre

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