By Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva & IPM Monthly Team
All that you need to know about calls, jobs, conferences, meetings, and much more. Every month in our News and Opportunities section. And if you have any news you want to share with the wider med_phil public, reach out to us!
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By Guido Alt
This month we are glad to have Erik Åkerlund (Newman Institute/Stockholm University). In our interview we have talked about, among other things, medieval and early modern natural philosophy, Francisco Suárez’s conception of finality and teleology, and the need for disciplinary crossovers between medieval and early modern philosophy.
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By Maria Pinho
Uma conversa com Hugo Miguel Santos, doutorando no Programa em Teoria da Literatura da Universidade de Lisboa e poeta, sobre a velha relação entre poesia e Filosofia. Afinal, existirá de facto, nela, dicotomia alguma?
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By Nicola Milanesi
Welcome to “Global History of Philosophy,” a new section in IPM Monthly dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse landscape of philosophical thought across cultures and continents. Today we’re joined by Bichen Yan, a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University whose work explores the crossroads between materials chemistry and the history of science. In his current project, he dives into Kunyu gezhi, a 17th-century Chinese translation of Georgius Agricola’s De Re Metallica, tracing how Jesuit missionaries introduced European mining and metallurgical knowledge to Ming China. But this was no simple act of translation; instead, it became a site of philosophical negotiation, where the Western concept of matter as inert and form-receiving clashed with Chinese ideas of dynamic Qi.
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By Mário Correia
Our monthly list of recently published books on philosophy, history, and the Middle Ages for June. Take a look to find out the latest trend in our field.
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By Mário Correia
We begin today a set of interviews with editors of book series dedicated to medieval philosophy. Our aim is to introduce these series, but also to discuss issues related to our publishing practices and policies. And there’s no better way to start this series than with Robert Pasnau, whose In medias PHIL has been a source of inspiration for us. This time, it is in his role as Editor-in-chief of The Medieval Text Consortium Series that we conducted this interview with him.
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By Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva
As the old saying goes, ‘All roads lead to Rome’, so, with that spirit, we are happy to visit ‘the eternal city’ with Marco Picciafuochi in this month’s small portraits.
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By Isabel Inzunza Gomez
Let’s say you could upload Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing into a machine. I mean all of it—his conception of metaphysics as the first and universal science, the discipline that grounds not just theology, but also physics, psychology, and even prophecy. Imagine the machine internalizing his ontology of being qua being, where existence is either necessary in itself or possible by virtue of another.
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