Laura Georgescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5993536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Georgescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Georgescu |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGESCU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9376-7443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cavendish on life
This paper argues that Margaret Cavendish is a metaphysical deflationist about life. That is, it claims that, in Cavendish's mature philosophy, life is no metaphysical kind. From this it also follows that claims about matter being alive play no role in Cavendish's (natural) philosophy. On my reading, living is identical with (natural) being, Cavendish has no problem of life, and the label of vitalism is explanatorily vacuous as applied to her phi…
The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665)
Self-knowledge, Perception, and Margaret Cavendish’s Metaphysics of the Individual
For Margaret Cavendish, every single part of matter has self-knowledge, and almost every part has perceptive knowledge. This paper asks what is at stake for Cavendish in ascribing self-knowing and perceptive properties to matter. Whereas many commentators take perception and self-knowledge to be guides to Cavendish’s epistemology, this paper takes them to be guides to her metaphysics, in that it shows that these categories account for individual …
Margaret Cavendish: Essential Writings, edited by Cunning, David
Rotating Poles, Shifting Angles and the Use of Geometry: (Bond’s Longitude Found and Hobbes’ Confutation)
In The Sea-Mans Kalendar (1636 [1638?]), Henry Bond predicted that magnetic declination would be 0 in 1657, and would then increase westerly for (at least) 30 years.Based on these predictions, Bond went on to claim in The Longitude Found (1676) that, by using his model of magnetism, he can offer a technique for determining longitude.This paper offers an assessment of Bond's method for longitude determination and critically evaluates Thomas Hobbes…
The Disponent Power in Gilbert’s De Magnete: From Attraction to Alignment
In De magnete (1600), Gilbert conceptualizes magnetism as primarily disponent, that is, as primarily aligning or ordering magnetic bodies with respect to each other. The conceptualization of magnetism as disponent replaces that of magnetism as attraction. The focus on magnetism as disponent is a consequence of Gilbert’s treatment of magnetic motions and magnetic power. A reading of Gilbert’s conceptualization of magnetism as disponent makes sense…
The diagrammatic dimension of William Gilbert's De magnete
One Experiment, Different Uses: Floating Magnetic Bodies in Peregrinus, Norman and Gilbert
This paper argues that local epistemic aims shape and transform the function played by an experiment. It shows that different uses of the same experimental context change the status of the experiment in the larger knowledge scheme. I deal with this problem in the context of early modern science, where experiments were often transferred from one domain of knowledge or from one problem to another. Thus, I assess how the technique of freely floating…
Redefining the Role of Experiment in Bacon's Natural History: How Baconian was Descartes before Emerging from His Cocoon
In this article we argue that the views that Francis Bacon and René Descartes held about the role of experiments in the process of discovery are closer than previously accepted. Looking at the way experiments and the heuristics of experimentation are embedded in Bacon's posthumous History of Dense and Rare and Descartes' Discourses 8, 9, 10 of the Meteorology, we will show that experiments help the investigator both in solving specific problems t…
Considérations anthropologiques concernant la population du Moyen Age de Vadu Anei
Autoarea prezintă consideraţii antropologice pe baza studiului unui lot de subiecţi descoperiţi în necropola medievală de la Vadu-Anei în comparaţie cu subiecţii din cuprinsul altor necropole medievale din Câmpia Română cu care au tangenţă din punct de vedere al analizei antropologice. Din cele 446 de morminte cercetate a fost ales un lot de 140 de subiecţi, a căror stare de conservare a permis un studiu de detaliu. Analiza lor s-a făcut pe baza …
Self-knowledge, Perception, and Margaret Cavendish’s Metaphysics of the Individual
For Margaret Cavendish, every single part of matter has self-knowledge, and almost every part has perceptive knowledge. This paper asks what is at stake for Cavendish in ascribing self-knowing and perceptive properties to matter. Whereas many commentators take perception and self-knowledge to be guides to Cavendish’s epistemology, this paper takes them to be guides to her metaphysics, in that it shows that these categories account for individual …
Considérations anthropologiques concernant la population du Moyen Age de Vadu Anei
Autoarea prezintă consideraţii antropologice pe baza studiului unui lot de subiecţi descoperiţi în necropola medievală de la Vadu-Anei în comparaţie cu subiecţii din cuprinsul altor necropole medievale din Câmpia Română cu care au tangenţă din punct de vedere al analizei antropologice. Din cele 446 de morminte cercetate a fost ales un lot de 140 de subiecţi, a căror stare de conservare a permis un studiu de detaliu. Analiza lor s-a făcut pe baza …
Redefining the Role of Experiment in Bacon's Natural History: How Baconian was Descartes before Emerging from His Cocoon
In this article we argue that the views that Francis Bacon and René Descartes held about the role of experiments in the process of discovery are closer than previously accepted. Looking at the way experiments and the heuristics of experimentation are embedded in Bacon's posthumous History of Dense and Rare and Descartes' Discourses 8, 9, 10 of the Meteorology, we will show that experiments help the investigator both in solving specific problems t…
One Experiment, Different Uses: Floating Magnetic Bodies in Peregrinus, Norman and Gilbert
This paper argues that local epistemic aims shape and transform the function played by an experiment. It shows that different uses of the same experimental context change the status of the experiment in the larger knowledge scheme. I deal with this problem in the context of early modern science, where experiments were often transferred from one domain of knowledge or from one problem to another. Thus, I assess how the technique of freely floating…
The diagrammatic dimension of William Gilbert's De magnete
The Disponent Power in Gilbert’s De Magnete: From Attraction to Alignment
In De magnete (1600), Gilbert conceptualizes magnetism as primarily disponent, that is, as primarily aligning or ordering magnetic bodies with respect to each other. The conceptualization of magnetism as disponent replaces that of magnetism as attraction. The focus on magnetism as disponent is a consequence of Gilbert’s treatment of magnetic motions and magnetic power. A reading of Gilbert’s conceptualization of magnetism as disponent makes sense…
Rotating Poles, Shifting Angles and the Use of Geometry: (Bond’s Longitude Found and Hobbes’ Confutation)
In The Sea-Mans Kalendar (1636 [1638?]), Henry Bond predicted that magnetic declination would be 0 in 1657, and would then increase westerly for (at least) 30 years.Based on these predictions, Bond went on to claim in The Longitude Found (1676) that, by using his model of magnetism, he can offer a technique for determining longitude.This paper offers an assessment of Bond's method for longitude determination and critically evaluates Thomas Hobbes…
Margaret Cavendish: Essential Writings, edited by Cunning, David
Self-knowledge, Perception, and Margaret Cavendish’s Metaphysics of the Individual
For Margaret Cavendish, every single part of matter has self-knowledge, and almost every part has perceptive knowledge. This paper asks what is at stake for Cavendish in ascribing self-knowing and perceptive properties to matter. Whereas many commentators take perception and self-knowledge to be guides to Cavendish’s epistemology, this paper takes them to be guides to her metaphysics, in that it shows that these categories account for individual …
The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665)
Cavendish on life
This paper argues that Margaret Cavendish is a metaphysical deflationist about life. That is, it claims that, in Cavendish's mature philosophy, life is no metaphysical kind. From this it also follows that claims about matter being alive play no role in Cavendish's (natural) philosophy. On my reading, living is identical with (natural) being, Cavendish has no problem of life, and the label of vitalism is explanatorily vacuous as applied to her phi…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (2 works) · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (2 works)