News
30 June 2014
As of 1 July Prof. Keimpe Algra will be Faculty Professor. His appointment concerns the new chair in History of ancient philosophy and science.
27 June 2014
A book by Ryad and Götzbruch about the transnational history of islamic intellectuals during the Interbellum.
21 February 2014
A reconstruction of a pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting from two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'.
13 January 2014
The case studies in this volume juxtapose instances of knowledge exchange across a variety of fields usually studied in isolation.
2 December 2013
Noortje Jacobs is the winner of the Descartes-Huygens thesis award for science and university history 2013.
5 July 2013
Isis, the leading international journal on the history of science, moves to the Descartes Centre at Utrecht University.
14 June 2013
The new web tool ePistolarium gives free access to 20,000 letters by 17th-century scientists, such as René Descartes and Constantijn.
21 January 2013
Ernst-Otto Onnasch published a letter by Immanuel Kant in which he warns for governmental influence on the university.
28 September 2012
Second volume in the ‘Reinholdiana’ series appeared: Wille, Willkür, Freiheit. Reinholds Freiheitskonzeption im Kontext der Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts.