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Expo Wiener Kreis at the UCL

Until 30 June, you can visit the exhibition The Vienna Circle. Exact thinking in demented times. The ‘Vienna Circle’, also known as the ‘Wiener Kreis’, included thinkers such as Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath. This group of intellectuals had a significant influence on logical empiricism and contemporary engineering sciences. The exhibition illustrates the history of this learned society and it traces the lives of its protagonists, who were victims of the ravages of populism and anti-Semitic persecution that struck Vienna in the 1930s.

Job Opportunity: Henri Pirenne
ULB is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the project 'De main de maître.' Vers une transcription automatique des archives de l'historien Henri Pirenne et leur analyse ‘génétique’ et intellectuelle. This part of the research focuses on the intellectual analysis of the historian's work Mahomet et Charlemagne and draws on an extensive and diverse collection of sources on this historical study. More information about the position can be found via this link.


Recent Publications


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


In het kielzog van de Belgica: KBR brengt de Belgische poolexpedities tot leven via storytelling software.

Imke Hansen


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


Wonderkamer 10: De zeven hoofdzonden van de wetenschap.



Multispecies History of Science.

Raf De Bont


Patience, diligence, and humility: epistemic virtues and chemistry in the eighteenth century Dutch Republic.

Pieter Beck
In the spotlight


Lovanium and Colonial Science


The Colonial High School

70 years ago, the KU Leuven founded Lovanium as its colonial counterpart in Congo. The KU Leuven and Lovanium were embedded in a large network of colonial educational institutions, both in Belgium and the Belgian Congo. Following the link below you can find more information about colonial education in Belgium


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History of Science in Belgium


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