Sharing Knowledge

The partnership with Huygens ING (KNAW) is aimed at forming an internationally competitive Dutch centre for the history of science.

We have a long tradition of collaboration with the Program in the History of Science (History Department, University of California, Los Angeles). There is an exchange programme for students, PhD candidates and lecturers. Moreover, joint projects are being carried out on the origins of the modern knowledge society.

The partnership with the University of Minnesota comprises the exchange of students and lecturers as well as research collaboration.

After having been located in the United States for almost a century, the renowned science history journal Isis has taken up its editorial residence at Utrecht University as of 1 July 2014. Internationally considered as the leading journal in this field, Isis will be issued from the Descartes Centre for a period of 5 years under the joint academic responsibility of the Descartes Centre, Huygens ING and Museum Boerhaave.

The informal contacts with the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, the world's leading institute for research into the history of science, are being converted into a permanent partnership. The aim is to create a European axis of Early Modern science history.

The NIAS facilitates and stimulates international and interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences. The Descartes Centre collaborates with NIAS in the context of its focus area activities, such as the project 'Creating a Knowledge Society in a Globalizing World (1450-1800)'.

The History of Philosophy programme has partnerships with:

• University of Leuven (De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy)
• École Normale Superieure, Lyon
• Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
• Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Munich
• Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

The Theoretical Philosophy programme participates in the ESF Research Network Philosophy of Science and the Association for Symbolic Logic. It also collaborates with other universities including those of Oxford, Pittsburgh, Bern, Vienna, and the American University at Washington DC.

The Descartes Centre also has international partnerships with:

• Wellcome Institute, London (Colonial Medicine in the Carribean; Frank Huisman)
• Institute for the History of Science, University of Teheran, Iran (History of Mathematics; Jan Hogendijk)
• Department of History, King’s College, Londen (Innovation in Livestock Breeding; Bert Theunissen)
• Humboldt Universtität, Berlin (Philosophy of Law; René Brouwer)
• University College, London (Horizon 2012; Toine Pieters)
• CONICET, University of Buenos Aires (Dennis Dieks)