Dr. Rodolfo Garau

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Anschrift

Universität Hamburg

Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften

Fachbereich Philosophie

Institut für Liberal Arts & Sciences

Monetastraße 4

20146 Hamburg

Büro

Raum: 0025

Kontakt

E-Mail: rodolfo.garau"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Forschungsbereiche

Geschichte der Philosophie, der Wissenschaft und der Geistesgeschichte der frühen Neuzeit und der Moderne
Philosophie der Wissenschaft
Historische Geoanthropologie
Geschichte der Kriminologie und kritische Rassengeschichte

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

Seit 2023: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Uni-Hamburg
2021-2023: Assistant Professor without Tenure-Track, Ca' Foscari University (Venice)
2021: Marie Curie Individual COFUND Fellowship, Université Libre de Bruxelles (abgelehnt)
2020: Postdoc, Herzog Augusta Bibliothek of Wolfenbüttel
2018-2021: Postdoc, Ca' Foscari University (Venice)
2018: Postdoc, Excellence Cluster Bild Wissen Gestaltung, Humboldt Universität (Position left)
2016: Visiting Research Scholar, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
2016: Postdoc, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
2015: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
2015: Promotion in Philosophie und Ideengeschichte an der Universität Turin (Italien) mit einer Dissertation über den Begriff des conatus in der frühen modernen Naturphilosophie und Metaphysik.
2014: Gastwissenschaftler, Universität Bar-Ilan (IS)
2013-2014: Gastwissenschaftler, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
2012: Gastwissenschaftler, University of Aberdeen
2011: Erster Platz im Wettbewerb für Promotionsstipendien in Philosophie und Ideengeschichte, Universität Turin
2011: MA in Philosophie, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2010: MA in Philosophie und Ideengeschichte, Universität Turin (Italien)
2007: BA in Philosophie Universität Turin (Italien)

Publikationen

Artikel in Fachzeitschriften und Büchern

"Gassendi’s Second Thought. From a Materialistic Picture of Cognition to the Defence of Dualism: The Lasting Influence of the Polemic with Descartes". Notes and Records of the Royal Society 77 (2023), pp. 1-19.
" An Eclectic Manqué? Gassendi and Brucker on Gassendi's "Eclecticism", in Eclecticism and Eclectic Philosophy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ed. by Sophie Roux and Tinca Prunea. Brill (forthcoming, 2023).
“Gassendi’s Logic and Theory of Knowledge,” in Garber, Daniel, Delphine Bellis and Carla Rita Palmerino, Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy, Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (2023), pp. 215-240.
(with Giulia Rispoli and Pietro D. Omodeo). "Introduction", in the special issue "Historical Geoanthropology", edited by Pietro D. Omodeo, Rodolfo Garau, and Giulia Rispoli. Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 11:22 (2022).
“Explaining Astrological Influence with Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Peter Megerlin’s Manuscript Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530, circa 1680).” Special issue “Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy”, edited by Rodolfo Garau and Doina Cristina Rusu. Early Science and Medicine 27(5) (2022), pp. 486-525.
(with Doina C. Rusu), " Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy". Special issue “Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Natural Philosophy”, edited by Rodolfo Garau and Doina Cristina Rusu. Early Science and Medicine 27(5) (2022), 397-402.
"Who was the Founder of Empiricism After All? Gassendi and the ‘Logic’ of Bacon." Perspectives on Science 29:3 (2021), pp. 324-357.“
Gassendi vs Astrology.” Special Issue “Reconfiguring Astrology in xviith-century France”, edited by Jean Sanchez and Steven Vander Broecke. Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources 47:2 (2021), pp. 143-174.
“A törekvés (conatus) fogalmának felépítése Spinozánál.” Special issue ‘The Conatus in the Early Modern Period’. Orfeus Noster. Journal of Károli Gáspár University of The Reformed Church in Hungary, Faculty of Humanities, 12:2, (2020), pp. 11-35.
“The Transformation of Final Causation: Telesio’s Theories of Self-Preservation and Motion,” in Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (ed). Bernardino Telesio, the Natural Sciences and Medicine in the Renaissance. Brill (2019), pp. 231-251.
(co-authored with Pietro Omodeo) “Contingent Mathematics of Nature in the Renaissance: Cusanus’ Perspective.” In Wissensformen bei Nicolaus Cusanus, ed. C. Bacher and M. Vollet. Regensburg: Roderer (2019), pp. 125–139.
“Descartes’ Physics in Le Monde and the Late-Scholastic Idea of Contingency,” in Garau, Rodolfo and Pietro Daniel Omodeo (eds.). Contingency and Order in Early Modern Science. Springer (2019), 199-218.
(co-authored with Pietro Omodeo), “Introduction.” in Garau, Rodolfo and Pietro Daniel Omodeo (eds.). Contingency and Order in Early Modern Science. Springer (2019), 9-25.
Garau, Rodolfo. “Taming Epicurus. Gassendi. Charleton, and the Translation of Epicurus’ Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century,” in Fransen, Sietske and Niall Hodson (eds.). Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Science. Brill (2017), pp. 231-257.
Garau, Rodolfo. “Springs, Nitre, and Conatus. The Role of the Heart in Hobbes’s Physiology and Animal Locomotion.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 24:2 (2016), pp. 231-256.
Garau, Rodolfo. “Late-Scholastic and Cartesian Conatus.” Intellectual History Review, 24:4 (2014), 479-494.

Ausgabe von Zeitschriften-Sonderheften und Buch

“Action at a Distance in Pre-Newtonian Cosmology”, edited by Rodolfo Garau and Doina Cristina Rusu. Early Science and Medicine 27(5) (2022).
"Historical Geoanthropology," edited by Pietro Omodeo, Rodolfo Garau, and Giulia Rispoli. Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 11(22) (2022).
(mit Pietro D. Omodeo) Contingency and Necessity in Early Modern Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Springer. (2019).

In Vorbereitung

[in preparation] Garau, Rodolfo, and Arnaud Pelletier (eds). Empiricism in Early Modern Continental Philosophy and Science. Under Contract with Routledge (likely to appear in 2024).
[in preparation] “Cultural Politics of Cosmology. Arguing about the Stars on the Southern Side of the Confessional
Divide,” edited by Rodolfo Garau and Pietro D. Omodeo. Special issue accepted by British Journal for the History of Science. To appear in 2024 subject to the approval of second reviews.
[in preparation] Omodeo, Pietro, Mihnea Dobre, and Rodolfo Garau (eds). The Reception of Cartesian Cosmology. Springer (likely to appear in 2024).
[in preparation] "Jean-Baptiste Morin: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Astrology." edited by Rodolfo Garau and Steven Vanden Broecke. Intellectual History Review. In preparation (2025)

Bücher

Conatus. History of an Early Modern Concept. Under contract with Springer.

Weitere Veröffentlichungen

‘Conatus.’ Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and Science. Springer (2020).
“Elements, Renaissance Theory of Natural.” Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer (2020).
“Mazzoni, Jacopo”. Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer (2019).
“Montanari, Geminiano”. Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer (2020).

Vorträge

Invited talks

2023:

From Science to Pseudoscience: Gassendi, Morin, and the Marginalization of Astrology. Public Lecture Series of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Hamburg. Hamburg, 12/07/2023.
War, Science, and the Reshaping of the Urban (and Water) Space from Renaissance to Modernity: Towards a Political Epistemology of Space. Conference Crosscurrents. Historical Waterscapes in Crosscultural Perspectives. Jena: Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, 06/07/2023.
When is there too much context? Conference Reflections on Contextualism in the History of Philosophy and Science. Hamburg: Institute for Advanced Studies, 28/06/2023.
How Would a Gassendian Method Look Like? Seminar: Recipes, Technologies and Experiments. Online, 23/06/2023.
Spinoza on Providence and Conatus. Brussels Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, X edition. Brussels: ULB, 12/06/2023.

2022:

On Early Modern Pseudoscience. Conference: The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution. Bucharest, University of Bucharest, 17/10/2022.
Keynote lecture. Spinoza's Idea of Providence and Descartes' Metaphysical Physics. Conference: Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy (9th edition). Bucharest, University of Bucharest, 15-16/10/2022.
Moving away from the Margins: Cartesian Cosmology and Late-17th Astrologers—and Especially in Peter Megerlin’s Astrologia Cartesiana (ASHB1530). Conference New Readings of Descartes. A Decoding Descartes Conference. Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Philosophy, 7/06/2022.

2020:

Action at a distance, astrology, Cartesianism, and an unpublished manuscript. Some notes on a publication project. Bucharest, Department of Theoretical Philosophy and CELFIS, 20/05/2020. The talk was delivered online due to the COVID19 travel restrictions.
Souls, Senses, and Animals. On Some Psychological and Zoological and Psychological Aspects of the Gassendi-Descartes Debate. Paris, École Normale Supérieure,14/03/2020. Talk cancelled due to the covid19 epidemic and held online for Nov. 17, 2020.

2019:

On Gassendi’s Eclecticism. ICUB Research Institute of the University of Bucharest. Bucharest (RO), 4-5/11/2019.
Animaux mécaniques. Autoconservation et fondements de l’action chez Hobbes et Spinoza. Job talk for the position of Assistant professor. Université Laval, Quebec City (Canada), 24/05/2019.
Taking pleasure in history. Some notes on Catherine Wilson’s Histories of Epicureanism and of philosophy. Conference in Honor or Catherine Wilson. The University of York, York (UK), 13/03/2019.

2018:

The Anatomy of a Ridiculous Mouse? The Polemic between Pierre Gassendi and Jean Baptiste Morin on Astrology, Copernicanism, and Galileism. International colloqium “L'astrologie dans les communautés savantes françaises au 17e siècle”. École normale supérieure, Paris, 18/12/2018.
Gassendi’s Logic: Syllogism, Inductivism and Experiments. International Symposium “Logic and Metaphysics in the Modern Era.” Université Libre de Bruxelles – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruxelles, 12/11/2018.
Normativity and Criminology in XX century Brain Science, Ulme 35, organized by Bard College Berlin, Berlin, 25/10/2018.
Political Epistemology and Early Modern Philosophy, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, 18/04/2018.
Cervelli criminali. La polemica Lombroso-Giacomini su atavismo e razza, Fondazione Filippo Burzio, Torino, 25/01/2018.
Gassendi and the Ends of Logic, “La Logique et les Philosophes. Colloque International,” Université Paris Nanterre, 23/01/2018.
Le problème de la perception dans la philosophie moderne, Université Paris Diderot, 22/01/2018.

2017:

Florentine Neoplatonism and Raphael’s “The School of Athen”, “The Republic and Renaissance (neo)Platonism,” Bard College Berlin, 25/09/2017.
Practical Knowledge in Early modern Books on Secrets, Humboldt Universität Berlin, 21/06/2017.

2016:

Spinoza’s Theory of Self-Preservation in its Historical Context. “Spinoza et ses amis,” Spinoza’s Society of Canada. Montreal, McGill University, 17/06/2016.
Spinoza’s conatus and proto-inertial physics in the early modern period. Colloquium Spinoza, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 20/02/2016.
On the Foundation of Hobbes’ political anthropology. Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Technische Universität zu Berlin, 04/11/2016.

2015:

Leviathan and the heartbeat. Cardiovascular physiology, animal locomotion, and political anthropology in Hobbes. Seminar of the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science 2015-2016. Radboud University, Nijmegen, 16/10/2015.
Self-Preservation in Telesio. Natural Philosophy and Ethics. International conference: Bernardino Telesio, the Natural Sciences and Medicine in the Renaissance. Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 27/05/2015.

2014:

Interdisciplinarità del metodo o interdisciplinarità dell’oggetto? Ovvero: è possibile una storia della filosofia moderna che non sia aperta all’interdisciplinarità? GISI, Università degli Studi di Torino. Torino, 26/04/2014.

2013:

The Concept of Conatus in the Early Modern Accounts of Passions. International conference on the Conatus in early modern philosophy, ELTE University of Budapest, 10/05/2013.

Peer-reviewed