Category: Lucretius
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Lucretius: Our Contemporary (Video Lecture at University of Warwick)
Here is the video recording of a lecture I recently gave at University of Warwick as part of The Center for Post-Kantian European Philosophy. University of Warwick, 3 November 2020
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LUCRETIUS: NATURE UNFOUNDED (A Call for Papers)
K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts Université de Lille, Laboratoire Cecille https://revue-k.univ-lille.fr/ Call for papers YEAR IV 2021 (1), 6 LUCRETIUS: NATURE UNFOUNDED Bench’io sappia che obblio preme chi troppo all’età propria increbbe K. proposes an issue dedicated to the figure and thought of Titus Lucretius Carus because thinking about nature appears to be…
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Preface to the Korean Translation of Being and Motion
Why has something as simple as movement posed such enormous difficulties for philosophers and scientists? Why have the greatest minds of civilization dedicated their lives to discovering something genuinely immobile that would explain motion? Aristotle’s “unmoved mover,” Archimedes’ fixed “point,” Descartes’ “unmoveable” certainty, Newton’s divine clockmaker, and even Einstein’s idea of a block universe were…
The Philosophy of Movement 