Workshop, Ancient Wisdom in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Birkbeck College UL


Ancient Wisdom in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy


Workshop on a recent book by Dmitri Levitin
Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science: Histories of Philosophy in England c. 1640 – 1700

Friday 23rd June, Room 101, The Clore Building, Birkbeck College

11.15 - 11.30 Introduction

11.30 - 12.30 Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College Cambridge), The history of philosophy and the history of science: some implications of Levitin’s ancient wisdom

12.30 - 1.15 Lunch

1.15 - 2.15 Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute), England the Continent and Late Humanism

2.15 - 3.15 Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney), Some thoughts on experimental natural philosophy, metaphysics, and history

3.15 - 3.45 Tea

3.45 - 4.15 Dmitiri Levitin, Replies

4.15 – 4.45 Closing Discussion


Dr Stephen Clucas,

Editor, Intellectual History Review

Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History,
Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020 3073 8421

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