Biography
Erik-Jan Bos is editor-in-chief of the new edition of Descartes' correspondence (OUP). He is an internationally renowned Descartes-specialist and has published widely on Descartes, his correspondence, and Cartesianism. A recurring topic of interest is the development and dissemination of Descartes’ neurophysiological system. Recently he co-edited with Han van Ruler the Dutch translation, by C.L. Vermeulen, of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy (Meditaties over de eerste filosofie, Boom, 2022).
Erasmus School of Philosophy
Researcher | WP ESPhil
- bos@esphil.eur.nl
- Room
- J5-61
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Erik-Jan Bos (2023) - Mercurius Cosmopolita alias Andreas of Habernfeld. The Hermetic Response to Descartes - doi: 10.1484/m.descartes-eb.5.132894
- Erik-Jan Bos (2023) - Atomism and Cartesianism: Gassendi and Gorlaeus (and More) in Utrecht Disputations in the 1650s - Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 8 (4), 420-444 - doi: 10.1163/24055069-08040006 - [link]
- Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - Cartesian and Anti-Cartesian Disputations and Corollaries at Utrecht University, 1650–1670 - doi: 10.1163/9789004524897_009
- Han van Ruler, Erik-Jan Bos & C.L. Vermeulen (2022) - René Descartes, Meditaties over de eerste filosofie - [link]
- Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - Descartes en Italie : pour vendre des mulets - Archives de philosophie: Bulletin cartésien, 85 (1), 164-170 - doi: 10.3917/aphi.851.0151
- Erik-Jan Bos (2020) - The Correspondence between Princess Elizabeth and Descartes Revisited: The Countess of Horne and the <i>Epistolae </i>Edition - doi: 10.1484/m.descartes-eb.5.117835
- Theo Verbeek & Erik-Jan Bos (2019) - Descartes’s Correspondence and Correspondents - doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.013.3 - [link]
- Erik-Jan Bos (2019) - Harold J. Cook. The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War. xvi $ 276 pp., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. textdollar35 (cloth). ISBN 9780226462967. - Isis, 110 (1), 172-173 - doi: 10.1086/702462
- Erik-Jan Bos (2019) - "Une langue que i'entens fort peu." Descartes’ Translations in the Light of a Dutch Manuscript
- Erik-Jan Bos (2018) - Descartes’ Correspondence between Philology and Philosophy - Modernos Contemporâneos - International Journal of Philosophy, 1, 28-35 - [link]
- Erik-Jan Bos (2018) - Deux signatures de Descartes dans des registres de baptêmes; et la date de la mort de sa soeur Jeanne - Archives de philosophie: Bulletin cartésien, 81 (1), 171-174 - doi: 0.3917/aphi.811.0171
- Erik-Jan Bos (2017) - Descartes and Regius on the Pineal Gland and Animal Spirits, and a Letter of Regius on the True Seat of the Soul - doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198779643.003.0006
- Theo Verbeek & Erik-Jan Bos (2016) - Correspondence: from ENTRIES - doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511894695.069
- Theo Verbeek & Erik-Jan Bos (2016) - Search for Truth by the Natural Light: from ENTRIES - doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511894695.230
- Theo Verbeek & Erik-Jan Bos (2016) - Treatise of Man: from ENTRIES - doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511894695.247
- Erik-Jan Bos (2015) - Descartes’ Early Letters - [link]
- Erik-Jan Bos (2015) - Regius and the diffusion of Cartesianism in the early 1640s - and beyond
