by Erik-Jan Bos | Aug 16, 2022 | News
An Unknown Latin Manuscript of Descartes' L'Homme In the Leiden University Libraries, Esphil researcher Erik-Jan Bos has found an unknown manuscript of a work by the French philosopher René Descartes. It is a seventeenth-century manuscript containing a Latin...
by Erik-Jan Bos | May 19, 2022 | News
Within the framework of the NWO-research project Decoding Descartes, Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil) is organizing an international conference on 7 and 8 June 2022 under the title New Readings of Descartes. During the conference, members of the Decoding...
by Erik-Jan Bos | Apr 22, 2022 | Blog
Most of the details of Descartes’ alleged journey to Italy are known only from Baillet’s biography, La vie de Monsieur Des-Cartes (1691, vol. I, pp. 117-28). According to Baillet, Descartes left Paris in September 1623 for a one-and-a-half year trip to...
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