

DescartesLaboratory
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@DescartesLabor
Research group led by Fabrizio Baldassarri & Simone Guidi on the recent studies on Descartes and Cartesianism @ Iliesi-CNR Online seminars #histphilo #histsci



Today's episode is one of my favorites among recent topics: a look at the formal French garden, and its surprisingly intricate relationship to philosophy under Louis XIV! (Also very pleased at a pun about him I included here.) historyofphilosophy.net/french-garden #hopwag #philosophy





The program of next #DescartesLab is available First meeting is on Nov.11, 2025 - with Nadler's book on La Forge. Then, we'll discuss Cartesian ontology, Cartesian linguistics, and politics - a broad array of topics, ranging from science to philosophy... #17thcentury #histsci





New today on #HoPWaG: how philosophy at French universities evolved in response to Cartesianism and the “new science.” historyofphilosophy.net/french-scholas… #philosophy #podcasts




















Misguided expectations in reading: texts as arguments handlingideas.blog/2026/03/29/mis…



