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Genealogies of Anthropogenic Change
The project aims to map the emergence of a specifically “anthropogenic” change and study its distinctive character as a new kind of change. Anthropoge
Comparing Ancient Medical Encyclopedia: The Nineveh Medical Compendium (Mesopotamia) and the Donguibogam (Korea)
Rhythms of War and Farming in Early Modern China and Korea
This project examines the conceptions, structures, and experiences of timeliness in war and farming in early modern Northeast Asia. Early Chinese text
Geoanthropology
The Anthropocene reveals a newly emerging necessity to orient intellectual comprehension, scientific research, and political action towards the behavi
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Anthropogenic Markers: Historical and Material Contexts of a Twentieth-Century Transition in Earthly Matters
From 2020 to 2022, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is coordinating a series of geological investigations to identify key anthropogenic signatures
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A World of the Senses: Jesuit Aristotelianism in Europe and China
The Coimbra Commentaries, published between 1592 and 1606, were intended to serve as the teaching manuals for the philosophy course structured around
Experience and Rational Demonstration: Sufis vs. Philosophers in Medieval Islam
In this project, I focus on the way in which Aristotelian notions of reason and experience were first translated into Arabic. During the ninth and ten
Experience and Observation in Narboni's Commentaries on Maimonides' Treatises
The project explores the role of experience in Moses ben Joshua Narboni’s commentaries on two texts by Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed and Treatise
Alfarabi and Averroes on What is Known Prior to Scientific Demonstration
Alfarabi’s and Averroes’s philosophical treatises are guided by a common recognition that there are four types of knowledge (maʽlūmāt) which are prior
Experience of Soul and Body in the Chinese Jesuit Sciences, 1583–1683
In Jesuit psychological writings, especially from Matteo Ricci to Francesco Sambiasi, one can observe a cognitive sequence from the reception of the f