| Date | 12 November 2025 |
| Location | Utrecht |
| Organizers | Daan Mulder and Robert Vinkesteijn |
This conference gathers different contributions from renowned senior and promising junior scholars on the limits of philosophy in the imperial era. Contributions concern the crossroads between philosophy and religion (early Christian philosophy), philosophy and science (medicine, astronomy) and philosophy and literature (the use of myth and literature in philosophy).
The general questions addressed are: How do scientists anchor their ideas in the philosophical tradition? How do philosophers incorporate the language of myth and literature and work into their work? How do early Christian thinkers connect revelation to the philosophical tradition? What does this tell us about the way the limits of philosophy were constructed in the imperial era? The organisers intend to bundle the different perspectives on these questions generated and discussed at the conference, into an edited volume including a synthesizing conceptual introduction which devotes special attention to the role of anchoring in cross-disciplinary writing.