Journal of Spinoza Studies
Date: | 24 November 2021 |
Author: | Andrea Sangiacomo |
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Radar Love: Conway and separated unity
Date: | 14 June 2021 |
Author: | Hugo Hogenbirk |
We've got a thing that's called radar love.
Big historical data: a gappy mess
Date: | 17 February 2021 |
Author: | Silvia Donker |
We live in datafied times– times in which we are used to having an overload of information about any individual, place or event. Today’s data deluge shows an extraordinary capacity to store, retrieve and elaborate information. With digitization, people...
Spinozistic LEGO in InCircolo
Date: | 04 January 2021 |
Author: | Harmen Grootenhuis |
In these postmodern times, grand narratives are out of fashion and the scientific advance has set the academic disciplines adrift on the sea of specialization. With these two developments in mind, the quest of several scholars to advocate modern-day...
A teaching confession
Date: | 04 December 2020 |
Author: | Andrea Sangiacomo |
A teahcing confession: or an important but neglected side of philosophy that needs to be practiced and taught, now presented in some lengthy reflections (but also concise in their own way) that touch upon potential drawbacks of current teaching practices,...
Covid-19 and online teaching: mind the slope
Date: | 23 March 2020 |
Author: | Andrea Sangiacomo |
With Covid-19 becoming a world pandemic, most countries started to close schools and universities in the attempt of slowing down the speed of contagion. In Europe, Italy was the first in adopting this measure and now other countries are following—quickly....
What can we learn today from Descartes’ Meditations?
Date: | 28 February 2020 |
Author: | Andrea Sangiacomo |
This is the fifth year in a row that I teach Descartes’ Meditations to first year philosophy students. Over the years, my reasons to teach the Meditations shifted significantly. At the beginning, it was all about close reading of a text, trying to teach...
Emanuele Severino: taking philosophy seriously
Date: | 24 January 2020 |
Author: | Andrea Sangiacomo |
‘Being’ is not being a nothing. ‘Being’ is the ‘force’ that pushes nothingness away. Since it is impossible for being to be nothing, ‘nothing’ is just the positive content of a contradiction (the content ‘nothing’ that wants to signify its own not being a...
Some Thoughts on Teaching Early Modern Women
Date: | 18 December 2019 |
Author: | Peter West |
Just a couple of weeks ago I finished teaching a semester-long course called ‘Early Modern Women on Knowledge and Nature’ at University College Dublin. This is the first time I have run this course (though it won’t be the last) and I’ve come out the other...
Spoiler: Theory of silence
Date: | 06 December 2019 |
Author: | Andrea Sangiacomo |
I’m revising the manuscript of a book that should (hopefully) appear next spring (2020). The title is Theory of silence. Original experience and language starting from Giambattista Vico (my English rendering for the actual title: Teoria del silenzio....