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Advisory Board Meeting | 12.30 (UK time), 14th January 2021"The Latin Works of Henry More", The Advisory Board Meeting will take place on Zoom on the 14th of January, 12.30 (UK time). Anyone interested can ask for the zoom link.The schedule can be found down below

Book announcement | Former Scholar in Residence at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism Karen Felter Vaucanson has successfully defended her thesis on the Cambridge Platonist, Anne Conway, at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.Former Scholar in Residence at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism Karen Felter …

Zoom conference "Platonism and a Muslim-Christian Metaphysics Across Borders", organised on behalf of Tabah Foundation, and the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism at the University of Cambridge.This is the recording of the Zoom conference "Platonism and a Muslim-Christian Metaphysics Across Borders", organised on behalf of Tabah Foundation…

New collection of essays, edited by Christian Hengstermann.This collection provides the first in-depth introduction to the theory of the religious imagination put forward by renowned philosopher Douglas Hedley, from his earliest essays to his principal writings. Featuring Hedley's inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge University in 2018, the boo…

On October 19 (2020), Dr. Stróżyński held a Zoom conference for the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism. Dr. Stróżyński (University of Poznań, Poland) holds the zoom conference "The One as Giver in Plotinus - Metaphysical and Spiritual Implications" for the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism. [October 19, 2020]Here below is the you…

Presentation of Cecilia Muratori's new monographCecilia Muratori is Research Fellow at the Queen Mary University, and Tutor of Philosophy at the Institute of Continued Education, University of Cambridge.She just published her second monograph, Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry's 'On Abstinence' (Cambridge: Legenda,…

New Essay Collection on Cambridge Platonist Henry More, edited by Centre Fellow, Dr Christian HengstermannThe first major essay collection on the most prolific of the Cambridge Platonists since Sarah Hutton’s 1990 Tercentenary Studies, this new book provides an in-depth exposition of Henry More’s metaphysics and its legacy. As well as a detailed in…

New Interfaith Research Project funded by the Spalding TrustCan Platonic metaphysics bridge the perceived gap between faith and reason? Much popular secular rhetoric opines that the two are irreconcilable both for Christians and, more pointedly, in the case of Islam. Media commentators regularly pillory the latter for “mediaeval” attitudes and exce…

PhD researcher appointed as part of the ‘Reception of German Mysticism’ grantJonathan Lyonhart has been appointed as a Research Assistant as part of 'The Reception of German Mysticism' grant.The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) have awarded a three-year Insight Grant to Professor Torrance Kirby of McGill University …

Lecture delivered via ZoomOn 8 June, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism hosted Prof. Robert C. Koons via Zoom to deliver his talk, 'Tolkien, Barfield, and Neoplatonism: How Metaphysics Moulded Middle Earth'. Prof. Rob Koons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin and has recently been a Visiting Fellow at Corpus C…

Prof. Douglas Hedley joins Dr Stephen Blackwood on the Ralston College PodcastWhat connects truth, imagination, and freedom? Stephen Blackwood talks with philosopher-theologian Douglas Hedley about the human mind and its participation in a fundamentally knowable universe. The conversation begins with an introduction to three foundational aspects of…

Zoom ConferenceThe conference, 'Barfield, Coleridge, and the Imagination' was hosted via Zoom by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism. For more details, see the programme.

Tuesdays from 11-12.30The Plotinus Reading Seminar will continue noetically this term, meeting on Tuesdays from 11-12.30. Our first session is 28 April, and we will resume our reading at IV.7 11. Contact djt57@cam.ac.uk for Zoom details.

$177,000 (CAD) Grant awarded from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) have awarded a three-year Insight Grant to Professor Torrance Kirby of McGill University (PI), with Professor Douglas Hedley, Cambridge Divinity Faculty and Director of the Cent…

Workshop at the University of SiegenOn 4 March, Prof. Douglas Hedley presented his paper, 'Cambridge Platonists and Idealism' at the workshop 'The Dissident Renaissance: History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice' at the University of Siegen.