Upcoming Events

Two Newton Workshops in Brussels
Start Date: 13 March 2025
End Date: 14 March 2025
University Foundation, Brussels
RENEW18 is hosting two Newton workshops in Brussels: 'The Diffusion of Isaac Newton’s Ideas in Europe' and 'Emilie Du Châtelet and Isaac Newton'
Open Research Seminar #5: Kirsten Walsh - Proof by Experiments in Newton’s Optics
Start Date: 30 January 2025
End Date: 30 January 2025
Online
The aim of the research seminar is to invite scholars in the history of philosophy and science, and to organize an online discussion based on a text made available beforehand. The discussions will run for ~2 hours, and no pre-registration is required. See below for the Microsoft Teams link and the paper to be discussed.
Brussels seminar in modern philosophy XIII: Le Monde de Descartes
Start Date: 25 November 2024
End Date: 25 November 2024
Université libre de Bruxelles
Open Research Seminar #4: Courtney Fugate - Universal Gravitation and the Moral Law
Start Date: 4 December 2024
End Date: 4 December 2024
Online
The aim of the research seminar is to invite scholars in the history of philosophy and science, and to organize an online discussion based on a text made available beforehand. The discussions will run for ~2 hours, and no pre-registration is required. See below for the Microsoft Teams link and the paper to be discussed.
Call for Abstracts - Leuven Kant Conference 2025: Kant’s Metaphilosophy
Start Date: 29 May 2025
End Date: 31 May 2025
KU Leuven (on campus and online)
Dates: May 29-31, 2025. Venue: KU Leuven; Format: On Campus and Online; Submission deadline: February 1st, 2025; Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2025.
Open Research Seminar #3: Clémence Sadaillan - Espace, physique et théologie chez Newton
Start Date: 7 November 2024
End Date: 7 November 2024
Online
The aim of the research seminar is to invite scholars in the history of philosophy and science, and to organize an online discussion based on a text made available beforehand. The discussions will run for ~2 hours, and no pre-registration is required. See below for the Microsoft Teams link and the paper to be discussed.
Brussels Seminar in Modern Philosophy XII - Cosmological Debates from Leibniz to Kant
Start Date: 12 June 2024
End Date: 12 June 2024
ULB, Campus du Solbosch, room NA4.302
Brussels Seminar in Modern Philosophy XII - Cosmological Debates from Leibniz to Kant June 12, 2024. The event will take place at the ULB, Solbosch Campus, room NA4.302. Attendance is free. All welcome!
Open Research Seminar #2: Katherine Brading and Marius Stan - Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason
Start Date: 24 May 2024
End Date: 24 May 2024
Online
The aim of the research seminar is to invite scholars in the history of philosophy and science, and to organize an online discussion based on a text made available beforehand. The discussions will run for ~2 hours, and no pre-registration is required. See below for the Microsoft Teams link and the paper to be discussed.
Conference: ‘Criticisms of Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophical Program, 1672–c.1750’
Start Date: 20 September 2024
End Date: 21 September 2024
University Foundation, Brussels
RENEW Open Research Seminar #1: Aaron Wells - Du Châtelet, Induction, and Newton’s Rules for Reasoning
Start Date: 19 April 2024
End Date: 19 April 2024
Online
Our team is starting a new series of online research events: the RENEW Open Research Seminar. The aim of the research seminar is to invite scholars in the history of philosophy and science, and to organize an online discussion based on a paper made available beforehand. The discussions will run for ~2 hours, and no pre-registration required. See below for the Microsoft Teams link and the paper to be discussed.
Kant’s Dynamic Theory of Matter
Start Date: 7 March 2024
End Date: 8 March 2024
Brussels, ULB
Kant’s Dynamic Theory of Matter In-person conference, Brussels;
Axioms, Hypotheses, Common Notions: Foundational Principles of Experimental and Natural Science in the Newtonian Controversies
Start Date: 9 November 2023
End Date: 10 November 2023
Maison Française d'Oxford, Oxford
Conference funded by “The Common Notion. Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century” (NOTCOM, ERC AdG. 101052433, CNRS-MFO/IHRIM, 2023-2027, dir. M. Lærke) and “Responses to Newton’s Mathematical-Experimental Paradigm in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy” (RENEW18, an Excellence of Science project (EOS O.0034.22F) funded by the FWO and F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium, dir. K. de Boer, S. Ducheyne, and A. Pelletier).
Brussels Seminar in Modern Philosophy X
Start Date: 12 June 2023
End Date: 12 June 2023
Brussels, ULB, Campus du Solbosch
Continental Empiricism in the Early Modern Period
Start Date: 17 January 2023
End Date: 18 January 2023
Bruxelles, ULB
Supported by the EOS project RENEW18, the FRS- FNRS, the Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales at ULB (PHISOC) and the Centre de recherche en philosophie (PHI) organise on January 17 and 18 a two day congres on "Continental Empiricism in the Early Modern Period"
Opening lecture Renew18
Start Date: 1 February 2023
End Date: 1 February 2023
Leuven, HIW, Tiensestraat
RENEW18 is a four-year research project funded by the Belgian research councils FWO and F.R.S.-FNRS (EOS) and will be carried out by a consortium consisting of three principal investigators and seven junior researchers.