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Vacancy Center: Center Leo Apostel

The Center Leo Apostel (CLEA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has three open PhD positions in the philosophy and history of science. The selected candidates will study the history of anti-mathematics and anti-abstractionism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their research will be part of a broader project on resistance to Isaac Newton’s natural philosophy and the rise of the so-called "new science" during this period. The application deadline is 21 September 2025. More information via the link.

Wonderkamer 11
World War II is perhaps the most studied subject in history. But when it comes to science in the Low Countries, we actually know little about this period. The new issue of Wonderkamer sheds light on science in the period from 1940 to 1945 and how scientists experienced the war and occupation. Get your copy now via the link below.


Recent Publications


The Nuclear-Water Nexus.

Per Högselius & Siegfried Evens (ed.)


Flying Rhinos. Paul, Chloe, and the Making of the Conservationist Zoo.

Raf De Bont


Academische vrijheid. Een Leuvense geschiedenis, 1834-2024.

Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde, Kaat Wils & Rajesh Heynickx (ed.)


Real Possibilities for Husserl's Correlation between Truth and Evidence.

Gregor E. Bös


American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration. Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory.

Sander Verhaegh


A phenomenological account of mathematical modes of intuition.

Bruno Leclercq


What Will Happen to Humanity in a Million Years? Gilbert Hottois and the Temporality of Technoscience.

Massimiliano Simons


Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750). A Research Companion.

Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans & Raf Van Rooy (ed.)


Rond wetenschap verenigd. Van Vlaamse Leergangen tot Academische Stichting Leuven 1924-2024.

Ruben Mantels


Les grands géologues de Belgique. Nés entre 1834 et 1937.

Léon Dejonghe


Journal for the History of Knowledge 5. Special Issue: Mapping Uncertain Knowledge.

Djoeke van Netten (ed.)


Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine.

Pieter Dhondt, Sari Aalto, Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen & Saara-Maija Kontturi (ed.)


Leuven’s College Laboratories. An Urban Walking Guide through 600 Years of Science.

Geert Vanpaemel


Franz Cumont : pater patrum of the modern study of the oriental mystery cults.

Danny Praet & Annelies Lannoy


Physics in Minerva’s Academy. Early to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Appropriations of Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy at the University of Leiden and in the Dutch Republic at Large, 1687–c.1750.

Steffen Ducheyne
In the spotlight


Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum


Orangerie Gand

On June 8 1821, Franz-Peter Cassel, professor of botany and the second rector of the newly founded State University of Ghent, died. His 1819 rectoral address was an ardent plea for the study of the history of science, at the same time coloured by the views of his time. For Cassel, history of science taught how ideas had come about, how they had managed to overcome initial opposition, and how they had finally triumphed. He considered the history of science as a story of progress. No less important was the moral example of the persistent and determined scholar. For the young scientist, the Ghent rector argued, history was a life lesson. Follow the link below to read more about Cassel and his views on the history of science.


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