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).
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Work
- Erik-Jan Bos & Theo Verbeek (2025) - Retour sur Descartes et Schoock: La lettre ouverte de Schoock à Descartes retrouvée, et les autographes de Descartes à Groningue - Archives de philosophie: Bulletin cartésien, 88 (1), 164-170
- Erik-Jan Bos (2024) - Descartes in de Groninger Archieven - Stad & Lande, 33 (4), 42-47
- René Descartes, Erik-Jan Bos & Louis Rouquayrol (2024) - La Recherche de la Vérité - [link]
- Roger Ariew & Erik-Jan Bos (2024) - René Descartes, The Complete Correspondence in English Translation, Volume I: From the Early Years to the Discourse on Method, 1619–1638 - [link]
- 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 - [link]
- 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 (2022) - Een verborgen planeet tussen nevelsterren: René Descartes aan Constantijn Huygens, 4 december 1649
- Erik-Jan Bos (2024) - Descartes in Egmond (Participant)
Activiteit: Other › Popular - Erik-Jan Bos (2024) - Reply to the lecture by Sébastien Maronne (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Erik-Jan Bos (2023) - De eeuw van de Franse en de Hollandse Archimedes: Descartes en Huygens, 1596 – 1695 (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Popular - Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - Constantijn Huygens. Een leven in brieven (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Popular - Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - Wetenschap in de schaduw van wapens: Huygens als beschermheer van René Descartes (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Popular - Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - René Descartes, Discours de la méthode (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Popular - Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - De Meditaties van Descartes (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Popular - Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - An Unknown Latin Manuscript Translation of L’Homme (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - New Readings of Descartes (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Erik-Jan Bos (2022) - New Readings of Descartes (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Academic
Descartes and the Cartesian Legacy
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- FW-MA0014
