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Date: 2026-04-24 07:33:09+00:00
From: <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: The Inaugural Gaukroger Lecture | Prof. Sorana Corneanu | 26 May 2026
[From Rodolfo Garau, MERSENNE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]
Dear colleagues,
We are very pleased to invite you to the Inaugural Gaukroger Lecture in
Intellectual History, a new annual lecture established by the
International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH).
ABOUT THE GAUKROGER LECTURE
The Gaukroger Lecture has been founded in memory of Professor Stephen
Gaukroger (1950–2023), founding editor of the _Intellectual History
Review_ and past President of the ISIH. The lecture honours his
outstanding contribution to the field of intellectual history and his
dedicated service to the society. It will be delivered annually as a
flagship event of the ISIH, celebrating the kind of ambitious,
wide-ranging scholarship that defined Professor Gaukroger's career.
THE INAUGURAL LECTURE
_The Art of Thinking: Towards a New Practice Turn in the Intellectual
History of Early Modern Logic_
Prof. Sorana Corneanu | University of Bucharest
Tuesday, 26 May 2026 | 14:00 BST
G.159 – MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College, University of
Edinburgh
Also available online (hybrid event)
In this inaugural lecture, Professor Corneanu takes stock of the current
re-evaluation of early modern logic, exploring a strand of scholarship
that holds the promise of articulating a new historiographic 'practice
turn'. Drawing on Stephen Gaukroger's own contributions to the history
of early modern philosophical cultures — particularly his work on
logic as a normative theory of thought, from the late scholastics to
Bacon and Descartes — she will sketch a preliminary map of the concept
of thinking as an activity governed by practices. She will assess this
concept's relationship to the older practice turn in the historical and
philosophical studies of science, and illustrate her argument through a
close reading of John Locke's work on the conduct of the understanding.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sorana Corneanu is Professor of English at the Faculty of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest. She works on
conceptions of the workings, vices, and virtues of the mind, the
imagination and the passions, pedagogy and education, and the art of
thinking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is the author
of _Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura
Animi Tradition_ (Chicago, 2011). Most recently, together with Tinca
Prunea-Bretonnet, she co-edited a special issue of _Intellectual History
Review_ on "The Art of Thinking: Mind and Method in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Logics" (2025).
ATTEND IN PERSON OR ONLINE
The event is co-hosted by the Department of History at the University of
Edinburgh and will take place in hybrid form. In-person attendance is
welcome at the MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College, Edinburgh.
Register to attend online:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/043e30dd-d1e1-4be5-867c-9fd48604ae76@2e
9f06b0-1669-4589-8789-10a06934dc61
For full details, visit:
https://is-ih.com/the-inaugural-the-inaugural-gaukroger-lecture-prof-sorana-
corneanu/
We look forward to welcoming you — in Edinburgh or online — for what
promises to be a memorable occasion.
With best wishes,
Rodolfo Garau, on behalf of the ISIH Executive Board
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