Mihnea Dobre

I am teaching and doing research at the University of Bucharest. I have a PhD in philosophy (Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Bucharest), and my research focus is in the history of philosophy and science; in particular on the relations between philosophy, science, and religion in the early modern period. I am also interested in new scholarly approaches (Digital Humanities) and different ways of communication and dissemination of research results (Open Science). I published two monographs, Cosmologia carteziană [Cartesian Cosmology; in Romanian, 2021] and Descartes and Early French Cartesianism: between metaphysics and physics (Zeta Books, 2017), and co-edited the volumes Recent Advances in Digital Humanities (Peter Lang, 2022) and Cartesian Empiricisms (Springer, 2013). I am book review editor at the Centaurus, the Journal of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS).

Recent research projects developed at the Humanities Division of the ICUB include Making Modern Science: tracing the dynamics of a ‘Cartesian Newtonian textbook’ during the Scientific Revolution (CartesianPhysics: https://cartesian.unibuc.ro/s/making-modern-science/page/home) and Early Modern Cosmology Between “Mosaic Physics” and Mechanical Philosophy 1650-1713 (Cosmology: https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/2018/10/12/early-modern-cosmology-between-mosaic-physics-and-mechanical-philosophy-1650-1713/).