We are glad to give notice of the International Online-Lectures A Cure for the Mind. Philosophy between Individual Perfecting and Social Improvement, that will take place on Zoom from June to October 2025.
The event is organized by Mario Andrès Narvàez (UNLPam/CIF)), Lucia Oliveri (University of Münster), Alice Ragni (Humboldt Stipendiatin, University of Münster).
Zoom link: https://uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/64588086976.
Below you can find the program of the event.
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27.06.2025
1-3 pm CET
Philosophy as Medicine: A Historical Overview
Francesco Fronterotta, Philosophy and Medicine (Philosophy as Medicine) between Plato and the Platonic Tradition.
Alice Ragni, Medicina mentis: A Reconstruction.
Lucia Oliveri, Philosophy as Medicine in the Early Modern Period.
18.07.2025
1-3 pm CET
Tschirnhaus‘s Medicina Mentis et Corporis
Enrico Pasini, Necessity, Hypothesis, Rule: The Epistemological Framework of Tschirnhaus’s Medicine of the Body.
Simone D’Agostino, Remedies to Dysfunctions of the Mind in von Tschirnhaus’s Medicina mentis.
Mario Andrés Narvaez, Educating the Imagination: Pedagogical Basis for a Scientific and Virtuous Life in Tschirnhaus’s Medicina Mentis.
01.09.2025
1-3 pm CET
On Philosophy as Emendation and Individual Transformation
Igor Agostini, Wolff and the Emendation of the Notion of Substance.
Dana Jalobeanu, Idolatry, Therapy and Extended Cognition: The Fable of New Atlantis.
Martin Lenz, What is Rationalistic Therapy? Some Notes on Spinoza.
31.10.2025
1-4 pm CET
A Cure for Prejudices and the Improvement of Education
Arnaud Pelletier, The Rhetoric of the Contamination of Minds from Thomasius to Kant.
Sorana Corneanu, Locke’s Conduct, the Cure of the Mind, and the Discovery of Principles.
Oscar Esquisabel, Leibniz’s Encyclopedia as a Politics of Science: Individual and Collective Progress.
Oliver R. Scholz, How Contemporary Epistemology May Learn from the Tradition of medicina mentis.
