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Academic Coordinator, Senior Researcher/ Associate Professor. The Humanities Division of The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB-Humanities)
Book review editor at the Centaurus, the Journal of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS)
E-mail: mihnea.dobre [at] unibuc.ro
Postal address: University of Bucharest, SSU-ICUB; Str. Dimitrie Brandza, No. 1; 060102, Bucharest, Romania
Web pages:
Professional page (more frequently updated): https://sites.google.com/g.unibuc.ro/mihneadobre/home
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ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mihnea_Dobre
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mihneadobre
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, 2010, Cotutelle between Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and University of Bucharest (Romania). Dissertation title: Metaphysics and Physics in Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Descartes and Early French Cartesians on the Foundation of Natural Philosophy.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Cosmologia carteziană [Cartesian Cosmology; in Romanian], București: Editura Universității din București, 2021.
Descartes and Early French Cartesianism: Between Metaphysics and Physics, Zeta Books, Foundations of Modern Thought series, 2017.
EDITED VOLUMES
Dobre, Mihnea and Bujor, Ioana (eds.). “Antoine Le Grand and Jacques Rohault: Le Grand and his Annotations to Rohault’s Treatise on Natural Philosophy.” Society and Politics, vol. 16/1 (31), 2022. [Open Access]
Co-editor of the volume Recent Advances in Digital Humanities: Romance Language Applications, Eds. Anca Dinu, Mădălina Chitez, Liviu Dinu and Mihnea Dobre. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, 2022.
Dobre, Mihnea; Babeș, Ovidiu; Bujor, Ioana and Vida, Grigore (eds.). “Jacques Rohault, Preface to the Traité de Physique. A critical edition and commentary of four early modern versions of Rohault’s preface.” Society and Politics (special issue), vol. 15/1 (29), 2021. [Open Access]
Cartesian Empiricisms. Co-edited volume with Tammy Nyden. Dordrecht: Springer. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31, 2013.
DISSERTATION/ BOOK
Metaphysics and physics in Cartesian natural philosophy: Descartes and early French Cartesians on the foundation of natural philosophy, Ph.D. dissertation, Proefschrift Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2010.
ARTICLES
“Jacques Rohault on Medicine.” In Descartes and Medicine: Problems, Responses and Survival of a Cartesian Discipline, edited by Fabrizio Baldassarri. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 361-376, 2023.
“Rohault’s Private Lessons on Cosmology,” chapter in the edited volume Descartes in the Classroom: Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age, ed. Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2022.
Dobre, Mihnea; Babeș, Ovidiu and Bujor, Ioana. “Cartesian Visual Cosmology: Ways Towards a Digital Platform.” In Recent Advances in Digital Humanities: Romance Language Applications, Eds. Anca Dinu, Mădălina Chitez, Liviu Dinu and Mihnea Dobre. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, 2022.
“Jacques Rohault’s Mathematical Physics”. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (2): 414-439, 2020.
“Jacques Rohault and Cartesian Experimentalism.” In Nadler, Steven and Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Tad Schmaltz (eds.), Oxford Handbook to Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019: 388-401. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.013.24.
“Henry More and William Petty: Revisiting an Early Modern Polemic,” Early Science and Medicine 23 (3), 2018: 244-264. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00233P03.
“Experimental Cartesianism and the Problem of Space.” In Koen Vermeir, Koen and Jonathan Regier (eds.), Boundaries, Extents and Circulations – Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016: 153-178.
“Descartes and the Hartlib Circle: an episode in of knowledge communication in the early modern period” [in Romanian, Descartes si cercul lui Hartlib: un episod de comunicare a cunoaşterii in perioada modernităţii timpurii] in Revista de Filosofie 63 (6) , 2016: 725-738.
“Mixing Cartesianism and Newtonianism: the Reception of Cartesian Physics in England.” In Gianna Katsiampoura (ed.), Scientific Cosmopolitanism and Local Cultures: Religions, Ideologies, Societies,Proceedings of 5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation/Institute of Historical Research, 2014: 126-131.
“On Philosophy of Experiment in Early Modern Period” [in Romanian, Considerații despre filosofia experimentului în perioada modernă timpurie] in Revista de Filosofie 61 (6): 631-642, 2014.
“Introduction” (co-authored with Tammy Nyden). In Dobre, Mihnea and Tammy Nyden (eds.), Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013: 1-21.
“Rohault’s Cartesian Physics.” In Dobre, Mihnea and Tammy Nyden (eds.), Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013: 203-226.
“On Glass-Drops: a Case Study of the Interplay Between Experimentation and Explanation in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy”, Journal of Early Modern Studies 2, 2013: 105-124.
“Knowledge and Certainty in the Foundation of Cartesian Natural Philosophy”, Revue Roumaine de philosophie 57 (1), 2013: 95-110.
“Cartesianism and Chymistry,” in Disciplines and Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Thought (a special issue of the journal Society and Politics 5 (2/10)), 2011: 121-136.
“Rohault’s Traité de physique and its Newtonian reception,” in Roca-Rosell, A. (ed.). The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the ESHS, Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010. Barcelona: SCHCT-IEC, 2012: 389-394.
“Early Cartesianism and the Journal des Sçavans, 1665-1671,” Studium 4 (4), 2011: 228-240.
“The Vanishing Nature of Body in Descartes’s Natural Philosophy.” In Anstey, Peter and Dana Jalobeanu (eds.). Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Nature: Descartes and Beyond. London: Routledge, 2011: 11-30.
“The Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth-Century: Cartesianism in Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1670.” In Alexandrescu, Vlad (ed.). Branching off: The Early Moderns in Quest of the Unity of Knowledge, Zeta Books, 2009: 333-358.
“The Foundations of Physics: Descartes’s Styles of Thinking and its Cartesian followers,” in Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Vienna, September 10-12 2008), 2009: 941-948.
“Discourse on Descartes’ Method.” In Alexandrescu, Vlad and Dana Jalobeanu (eds.), Esprits modernes: études sur les modèles de pensée alternatifs, Bucharest: Editura Universităţii Bucureşti; Arad: „Vasile Goldiş” University Press, 2003: 117-130.
Other articles and translations in Romanian.
NOTES, REVIEWS, ETC.
Book review “Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an Der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, Written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo.” Early Science and Medicine 28, no. 2 (July 10, 2023): 251–255.
Dobre, Mihnea; Babeș, Ovidiu; Bujor, Ioana and Vida, Grigore. (2022). “Cartesian and Newtonian authors: a database” [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6923317 (Open Access).
“Review: Ann Blair, Kaspar Greyerz (eds.), 2020. Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750.” Physis 56 (1-2): 412-414, 2021.
“Cordemoy, Géraud de.” In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_616-1.
Géraud de Cordemoy, Epistola scrisă unui învăţat Părinte, pentru a arăta: I. Că Sistemul Domnului Descartes și opinia sa cu privire la fiare nu conţin nimic periculos; II. Și că tot ceea ce a scris despre aceasta pare extras din primul Capitol al Genezei, traducere de Mihnea Dobre şi Grigore Vida, în Mihnea Dobre, Cosmologia cartezină, București: Editura Universității din București, 2021.
“Review: The Cartesian Semantics of The Port Royal Logic by John M. Martin.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2020.1828033.
“Cordemoy, Géraud de.” In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
“Cartesian Cosmological Illustrations”. Virtual Exhibition. Cartesian Cosmological Illustrations, April 2020.
Dobre, Mihnea, Babeș, Ovidiu, & Bujor, Ioana. (preprint; 2020, June 5). Cartesian Cosmological Illustrations: a digital approach. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4299767.
“Andrea Strazzoni. Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science: From Regius to ’s Gravesande,” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (2), 2020. https://doi.org/10.1086/710186.
“Cartesianism and Experimental Philosophy.” In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_52-1.
Book review of “Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Edited by Lesley B. Cormack, Steven A. Walton, John A. Schuster, 2017.” Early Science and Medicine 24 (3), 2019: 292-295.
“Rohault, Jacques” article published in the section on “Mechanical Philosophy” of the Springer Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles Wolfe. Springer, 2019.
Encyclopaedia entry for “Jacques Rohault,” in the Cambridge Descartes Lexicon (ed. Lawrence Nolan), Cambridge University Press, 2016: 657-659.
Book review of Jacques Rohault, Traité de physique, édition par Simone Mazauric, Paris, Édition du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (Collection CTHS Sciences n° 12), 2014, 830 p. In Artefact. Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines. Le XXe siècle du Technique. Formation, recherché et économie 3/ 2016: 231-235.
Book review of Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and Secondary Qualities (Oxford University Press, 2011). In Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS) 3 (1)/ 2014: 149-153.
Book review of Manning, Gideon (ed.), Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy (Brill, 2012). In British Journal for the History of Science 47 (2)/ June 2014: 375-376.
“Material Objects and Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Low Countries.” Book-review of Sven Dupré and Christoph Lüthy (eds.), Silent Messengers. The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2011) in Society and Politics 7, 1 (13): 117-119, 2013.
Book review of Antonia LoLordo, Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy. In Early Science and Medicine, 16/ 2 (2011): 168-172.
“Natural Philosophy and the Birth of Modern Science” (Book review for Stephen Gaukroger, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685), in Studii de ştiinţă şi cultură<span ‘=””>, VI (2010), No. 4 (23): 182-183.
Book review of Fred Ablondi, Gerauld de Cordemoy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian (Milwaukee, 2005), in Early Science and Medicine 11 (2006): 365-367.
HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Team member in the ERC grant Avatar agency. Moral responsibility at the intersection of individual, collective, and artificial social entities in emergent avatar communities (avataResponsibility; funded by the European Union ERC 101117761), 2024-.
Project Coordinator at the University of Bucharest for the project RIS4CIVIS: Research and Innovation Strategy for CIVIS in the CIVIS European University Alliance and leader of the Module 5: “Mainstreaming of Open Science” in RIS4CIVIS (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101016691), 2021-2023.
PI of the Grant PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0841 (The National Research Council, Romania): Making Modern Science: tracing the dynamics of a ‘Cartesian Newtonian textbook’ during the Scientific Revolution (CartesianPhysics), 2020-2022.
PI of the Grant PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0710 (The National Research Council, Romania): Early Modern Cosmology Between “Mosaic Physics” and Mechanical Philosophy (1650-1713), 2018-2020.
Team Member (Researcher) in the Grant PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0228 (The National Research Council, Romania): The emergence of mathematical physics in the context of experimental philosophy, 2017-2018.
Team Member (Researcher) in the Grant no. 362/01/10/2015 (The National Research Council, Romania): Collaborative research, technological advancement and experimental philosophy in the 17th century: The Hartlib Circle and the rise of the “new science”, 2015-2017.
Team Member (Researcher) in the Grant no. 294/05/10/2011 (The National Research Council, Romania): From natural history to science: the emergence of experimental philosophy, 2012-2016.
Post-Doctoral research grant, University of Bucharest (Posdru ID 62259), 2010-2013.
Team Member (Research Assistant) in the Grant no. 758/ 2009 (The National Research Council, Romania), 2008-2011.
NEC-link grant for teaching (together with Dana Jalobeanu and Ilie Parvu), New Europe College and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 2008-2009.
PICNIC, Research grant for Ph.D. candidates at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 2008.
Young Doctoral Students Grant (TD), no. 402/ 10.2007 (The National Research Council, Romania), 2007-2008.
Huygens Fellowship, Nuffic (The Netherlands), 2005-2006.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest (2013-present)
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (2008-2009; 2010-2014)
For more details regarding teaching, see here.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2016 (July), 2017 (June-July), 2019 (September-October) Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting scholar.
2001- 2013 The Seminars of The Foundations of Early Modern Thought.
2009-2015 Center of Research in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science Seminars in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
2013 (September) Princeton University, Visiting scholar.
2013 (January) CNRS/ BNF, Paris, Visiting scholar.
2005-2006, 2008, 2009, 2012 Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Visiting scholar.
2004-2008 From Natural Philosophy to Science, European Science Foundation Programme (ESF), Junior Researcher in Team 1.
DISSERTATION
“Metaphysics and physics in Cartesian natural philosophy: Descartes and early French Cartesians on the foundation of natural philosophy,” Advisors: Christoph Lüthy and Ilie Parvu.
AREAS OF SPECIAL COMPETENCE
History of science and history of philosophy, especially in the early modern period.
Descartes’s philosophy, Cartesianism.
Science and religion in the early modern period.
Digital Humanities, Open Science.
Research methods, Academic writing.
LANGUAGES
Romanian, English, French, Latin.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
European Society of the History of Science (ESHS)
International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH)
The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Coordinating research programs within the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest (SSU-ICUB/ ICUB-Humanities; IRH-ICUB).
Peer reviewer for national and international journals, funding agencies, and publishing presses.
Co-organizer of the Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science.
Co-organizer of the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.
Co-organizer of the seminars on early modern philosophy in The Center for the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science (CELFIS) and the Research Center on the Foundations of Early Modern Thought (FME), University of Bucharest.
Courses/ trainings offered in the Peer-Learning programme at the University of Bucharest.
Talks on Open Science.
PRESENTATIONS
09-12.07.2024. “Cartesian Democritus: the image of Democritus in the works of the first Cartesians.” HOPOS 2024, Vienna.
19.06.2024. “Cercetarea deschisă digitală în științele umaniste (Open Digital Scholarship in the Humanities).” Conference G. Călinescu – 125. Panel “Tratate, enciclopedii și dicționare literare în epoca digitalizării,” Romanian Academy, Bucharest.
13.06.2024. “Cartesian Natural Histories: Antoine Le Grand.” Scientiae 2024, Bruxelles.
16.05.2024. “Digital scholarship in the history of philosophy (and the sciences).” Research seminar Construction(s) of Science(s), ICUB, Bucharest.
17-18.11.2023. “Digital Histories of Philosophy and Science: the Early Modern Period” in the 2nd RADH Conference, Timișoara.
04-06.07.2023. “Constructing a philosophical system: Claude Clerselier’s Recipe for Cartesianism” in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 2023, Alba-Iulia.
17-18.01.2023. "The usefulness of historiographical categories: what to do with 'Continental Empiricism'?" in the conference Continental Empiricism in the Early Modern Period. Revising a Historiographical Category (Université libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles).
18-19.11.2022. "Going Beyond Kuhn: Paradigms, Incommensurability, and Textbooks" in the Kuhn 100 conference (Faculty of Philosophy and ICUB-Humanities, University of Bucharest).
17.10.2022. “Jacques Rohault’s Preface to the Traité de physique and its role in the Scientific Revolution of the early modern period” (with Ovidiu Babeș) in The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution Conference (ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest).
17.10.2022. “Cosmology and Mosaic Physics. On Géraud de Cordemoy’s Lettre au R.P. Cossart” (with Grigore Vida) in The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution Conference (ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest).
27.06.2022. “‘Nonsense’ in the history of philosophy and science: the case of historiographical categories” in the CELFIS Seminar (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest).
13-14.06.2022. “Layers of Knowledge: constructing authority in an early modern textbook on natural philosophy” in the 2nd Venice-Bucharest Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy and Science (Venice).
12.05.2022. “Authorities and Historiographical Categories in Early Modern Texts: Cartesianism” in the workshop Rethinking the Constituents of Early Modern Science; ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest.
08.04.2022. “Digital Humanities and Early Modern Scholarship” in the online conference series History of thought and Digital Scholarship Seminars; HITDIG.
19.11.2021. “Constructing Experiments with Glass Drops in Jacques Rohault’s Natural Philosophy” in the colloquium Recipes Transformed: seventeenth-century perspectives (18, 19, 24.11.2021).
17.11.2021. “Beyond digitalization: challenges for humans and machines” (with Anca Dinu) in the UNeECC and UNICA Joint Webinar: UniverCities and Culture.
29.10.2021. “Cartesian Visual Cosmology: ways towards a digital platform” (together with Ovidiu Babeș and Ioana Bujor) in the RADH 2021 – Recent Advances in Digital Humanities conference.
17-18.06.2021. Paper on “A Populariser of Cartesian Cosmology? Jacques Rohault” in the Venice-Bucharest Online Workshop in Early Modern Cosmology.
09-12.06.2021. Paper on “Cartesianism at Bay: Rohault as a Defender of Cartesian Cosmology” in the Scientiae 2021 conference, Early Modern Knowledge, 1400-1800.
24.05.2021. Roundtable discussion, The Bucharest-Athens Workshop: Digital approaches in the history of science (together with Ovidiu Babeș, Ioana Bujor, and Grigore Vida).
26.04.2021. Talk on “Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism – historical and historiographical considerations” in the Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
23.03.2021. Paper on “Natural Philosophy and Cartesian cosmology: Rohault and the popularization of Cartesianism” in the Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.
15.10.2020. Paper on “Depicting Cartesian Cosmology in the Seventeenth Century” in the online conference on Cartesian Images. Picturing Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Age, Leuven.
30.09.2020. Roundtable discussion on “Cartesian Approaches to Cosmology in Early Modern Europe” – together with Babeș, Ovidiu; Ioana Bujor, Bogdan Deznan, and Grigore Vida.
19.12.2019. Paper on "Cosmological Imagination: Descartes and the early Cartesians" in the workshop on Forms of Cosmological Thinking in the Early Modern Period (ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest).
04-05.11.2019. Paper on "Religion and Philosophy: Cartesian cosmology in the late seventeenth century" in the conference on Eclecticism and Eclectic Philosophy in the 17th and 18th Centuries (ICUB-Humanities and New Europe College, Bucharest).
17.10.2019. Lecture on “Géraud de Cordemoy on the Cartesian Theory of Animal Machines and the Use of Scripture” in the series of Premodern Conversations (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).
01.10.2019. Paper on “Early Modern Textbooks and Digital Tools: exploring the transmission of knowledge” in the seminar Brown Bag Lunch in Digital Humanities (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).
24-28.06.2019. Reading group on “Cartesian Cosmology.” Co-organised with Dan Garber & Scott Mandelbrote in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 2019 (Bran).
12-15.06.2019. Paper on Strategies of dissemination for Cartesian cosmology in the early modern Period, in the “Scientiae 2019” conference, Belfast.
“Between Cosmogony and Cosmology: a Cartesian View,” in the conference on Laws of nature: the emergence of a new concept in early modern Europe, IRH-ICUB, Bucharest (16.04.2019).
“Cartesian Cosmology Between ‘Mosaic Physics’ and Mechanical Philosophy.” Philosophical Cosmology in Early Modern Europe Workshop, IRH-ICUB, Bucharest (06-07.12.2018).
“The role of mathematics in Samuel Clarke’s annotations to Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique.” ESHS 2018, London (14-17.09.2018).
“Mathematical controversies around Cartesianism: Clerselier, Fermat, Rohault.” HOPOS 2018, Groningen (09-12.07.2018).
“Cartesianism and Mathematics.” Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran (28.06.-04.07.2018).
“Early Modern Cosmology Between ’Mosaic Physics’ and Mechanical Philosophy.” Conference on “Reformation and Modernity,” University of Bucharest (17-18.11.2017).
Reading group on „Galileo, the Theologian” (together with Dan Garber). Masterclass on „Galileo’s Methods of Investigation and Discovery,” Bucharest, ICUB (24-28.10.2017).
“Rohault’s Cartesianism and his treatises on mechanics: what form of mechanics?” Conference on The History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, Bergamo (05-06.10.2017).
“Intermediaries, Merchants, and Polemicists: on the letters exchanged by Descartes, More, Petty, and Hartlib.” ISIH, The American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad (30.05.-01.06.2017).
“Ways of connecting Bacon and Descartes: Medicine and Experimentation.” Bucharest Colloquium in early Modern Science, Bucharest (24-26.10.2016).
“The power of historiographic labels and the power of national historiographies of science: the Bacon-Descartes case.” 7ESHS conference, Prague (22-24.09.2016).
Co-chairing two round-table discussions on “Trees of Knowledge (I)” (Texts: Proclus, Commentary on Euclid (fragments); John Dee, Mathematical Preface. With Dana Jalobeanu and Ovidiu Babeș) and (2) “Trees of Knowledge (II)” (Texts: Bacon, De augmentis scientiarum; Descartes, “Letter to the reader,” Principia philosophia. With Dana Jalobeanu and Doina-Cristina Rusu), Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Alba-Iulia (11-16.07.2016).
“Between medicine and natural philosophy: some French Cartesians exploring the path between principles and experimentation.” Scientiae 2016, Oxford (05-07.07.2016).
Round-table discussion on “Descartes in the Hartlib Papers.” Workshop on Early Modern Intersections: Science, Experiments, Methodologies, Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad (18.04.2016).
“Bacon, Descartes, and the ‘new science’.” Workshop on Baconian Themes in Natural and Moral Philosophy, IRH-ICUB & CELFIS, University of Bucharest (01.04.2016).
“Baconianism, Cartesianism, and Newtonianism. Jacques Rohault’s Treatise on Physics and Samuel Clarke’s Newtonian annotations.” Masterclass on Isaac Newton’s Philosophical Projects, IRH-ICUB, University of Bucharest (06-10.10.2015).
“Reading group Genesis and the new science. The case of Cartesian philosophy” (with Daniel Garber). Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania (12-17.07.2015).
“Manuscrisul 2001 de la Biblioteca Mazarină. Un exercițiu de istorie intelectuală în jurul scrisorilor lui Descartes despre Euharistie” [in Romanian]. A round-table discussion organized together with Vlad Alexandrescu and Grigore Vida. ICUB, Bucharest (20.11.2014).
“Filosofia experimentala a secolului al XVII-lea si experimentalismul cartezian” [in Romanian. The English title, 17th-Century Experimental Philosophy and the Case of Cartesian Experimentalism]. CELFIS Seminar, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (08.10.2014).
“Reading group “Naturalism: Cardano, Telesio, Bacon” (with Daniel Garber and Doina-Cristina Rusu). Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania (08-13.07.2014).
“Experimental Cartesianism and the problem of space.” HOPOS 2014, Ghent (03-06.07.2014).
“Experience, experiment and observation in Cartesian natural philosophy: the case of organic processes of the human body.” Scientiae 2014, Vienna (23-25.04.2014).
“Cartesian Experimentalism across the Empiricist-Rationalist Divide. François Bayle and how experience and reason join together in the production of knowledge.” Conflict and Collaboration in Early Modern Europe, Radboud University Nijmegen (31.10.-01.11.2013).
Reading group “Baconianism and Cartesianism: on experiments” (with Sophie Roux) in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania (05-10.07.2013).
Reading group “Baconianism and Cartesianism: on method” (with Igor Agostini) in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania (05-10.07.2013).
“From Bacon to Baconianism: some thoughts on seventeenth-century ‘Baconianism’ and other categories in the early modern period.” Scientiae 2013, University of Warwick, UK, April 17-21, 2013.
“On Cartesian Empiricisms: historical and philosophical challenges.” The Department of Theoretical Philosophy Seminar, Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest, January 16, 2013.
“Mixing Cartesianism and Newtonianism: the reception of Cartesian physics in England.” 5ESHS, Athens, Greece, November 1-3, 2012.
“Cunoastere si certitudine in filosofia naturala carteziana (Knowledge and Certainty in Cartesian Natural Philosophy).” The Department of Theoretical Philosophy Seminar, Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest, May 5, 2012.
“Experimental physics in Cartesian natural philosophy.” Creative Experiments: Heuristic & Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science, 3rd Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science, Bucharest, Romania, March 24-25, 2012.
“Cartesian Empiricisms: an introduction.” 3rd edition of Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy, Bucharest, Romania, March 22-23, 2012.
“Vacuum Experiments in Cartesian Context.” &HPS4, Athens, Greece, March 15-18.2012.
“Theory and Experimentation in Jacques Rohault.” Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, February 28, 2012.
“Jacques Rohault and Samuel Clarke.” Collaborative aspects of Early Modern Thought: Philosophical Correspondence and the Republic of Letters, The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania, July 2-8, 2011.
“Cartesianism and Chymistry: mechanism and the rejection of chemistry as a science.” Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania, June 6, 2011.
“Moral and Absolute Certainty in the Foundation of Cartesian Natural Philosophy.” Passionate Minds: Knowledge and the Emotions in Intellectual History: 2011 Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH), University of Bucharest, Romania, May 26-28, 2011.
“Rohault’s Traité de Physique and its Newtonian Reception.” The Circulation of Science and Technology: 4rth International Conference of the European Society of the History of Science (ESHS), Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), Barcelona, Spain, November 18-20, 2010.
“Cartesianism in the Journal des Savants between 1665 and 1671.” Seminar of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania, October 20, 2010.
“Sharing Knowledge. Dealing with Censorship in the ‘Republic of Letters’.” The Limits of the Knowledge Society, University of Iasi, Romania, October 6-9, 2010.
“Knowledge of the physical body. Descartes and Cartesians on the quest for certainty in natural philosophy.” Second Young Researchers Days & Workshop on the Relations between Logic, Philosophy and History of Science, Bruselles, Belgium, September 6-7, 2010.
“Cartesianism and Chemistry: some early reactions.” The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania, June 30 – July 6, 2010.
“Jacques Rohault and the use of experiment in Cartesian physics.” History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Biennial Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, June 24-27, 2010.
“Jacques Rohault and Cartesian Physics.” The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania, July 25-31, 2009.
“Cartesian Revolution: Descartes and early Cartesians on the foundations of physics.” Beyond Kuhnian paradigms: was there a scientific revolution in 17th century, after all?. Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, March 26-27, 2009.
“The Cartesian Philosophy of Géraud de Cordemoy.” The seminars of the Research Center for the Foundations of Modern Thought, New Europe College, Bucharest, December 12, 2008.
“The Foundations of Physics: Descartes’s style of thinking and its Cartesian followers.” Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology: 3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Vienna, Austria, September 10-12, 2008.
“A Tree without Roots? Descartes’s tree of knowledge and the early Cartesianism.” The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Malancrav, Romania, July 27 – August 3, 2008.
“Figuring the Man Mechanism: Descartes and the Early Cartesians on the Structure of the Mind-Body Union.” The Soul: from Aristotelian ‘scientia de anima’ to early modern psychology. Summer School of the European Science Foundation, Den Bosch, The Netherlands, July 13-20, 2008.
“The invisible nature of body in Descartes’s natural philosophy.” Vanishing bodies and the birth of modern physics: experimental philosophy, speculative philosophy and the missing matter theory of the seventeenth century. Bucharest colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, June 30 – July 2, 2008.
“Early Cartesianism in the Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth Century.” Institutions and Networks. Circulating Knowledge in Early Modern Science. University of Leuven, Belgium, June 12-13, 2008.
“Shaping the Body: the Epicurean Temptation of the Early Cartesianism.” Epicurean and Anti-Epicurean themes in Early Modern Philosophy. Leiden, The Netherlands, Aprilie 11-12, 2008.
“The Quest for Certainty in Cartesian Natural Philosophy.” The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania, July 29 – August 3, 2007.
“Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth Century.” The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania, July 30 – August 4, 2006.
“Descartes’s Matter Theory.” Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, February 24, 2006.
“A Critique of the Cartesian Theory of Matter: Gérauld de Cordemoy.” The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Arad, Romania, September 6-12, 2004.
“A Soul Making Experiments: The Individualistic Approach to Experiment in Cartesian Natural Philosophy.” The Bucharest-Princeton Summer School in Early Modern Philosophy, Macea, Romania, September 2003.
“Discourse on Descartes’ Method.” The Bucharest-Princeton Summer School in Early Modern Philosophy, Macea, Romania, September 2002.
“Eternal Truths and the Problem of Possible Worlds in Descartes’ Philosophy” (together with Ciprian Tudor, Politechnical Institute, Bucharest). Summer School, Tescani, Romania, September 2001.
