Articles and Books: International Journals: Vermeir, Koen. (2014

Articles and Books:
International Journals:
Vermeir, Koen. (2014) 'Varieties of Wonder. John Wilkins' mathematical magic and the
perpetuity of invention' in Historia Mathematica, 41 (4) (ISSN: 0315-0860) (with
Maarten Van Dyck).
[2] Vermeir, Koen. (2013) ‘Scientific Research: Commodities or Commons?’ in Science &
Education, 22 (10), 2485-2510
[3] Vermeir, Koen (2012) ‘Mise en image du spectacle et spectacularisation de l’image à l’âge
baroque’ in Degrés. Revue de synthèse à orientation sémiologique, 40 (151), c1-c14 (with
Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse).
Vermeir,
Koen. (2012) ‘The Dustbin of the Republic of Letters’ in The Journal of Early
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Modern Studies, 1 (1), 109-149
Vermeir,
K. (2012) ‘Castelli in aria: immaginazione e Spirito della Natura in Henry More’
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in LoSguardo, 10 (3), 99-122.
[6] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘Malebranche et les pouvoirs de l’imagination’ in Rivista di Storia della
Filosofia. (With R. Carbone), 67(4), 661-669.
[7] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘Idols of the Imagination: Francis Bacon on the Imagination and the
Medicine of the Mind’ in Perspectives on Science, 20 (2), 183-206. (With S. Corneanu)
[8] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘States of Secrecy’ in British Journal for the History of Science, 45 (2),
153-164. (With D. Margocsy)
[9] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘Openness versus Secrecy? Some historical and conceptual issues’ in
British Journal for the History of Science, 45 (2), 165-188.
[10] Vermeir, K. (2009) ‘De familie der wetenschappen. Van een wittgensteiniaanse naar een
procedurele analyse van het demarcatieprobleem’ [‘The Family of Sciences. ‘A
Wittgensteinean Analysis of the Demarcation Problem’] in Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 71,
119-145.
[11] Vermeir, K. (2008) ‘Robocop Dissected: man-machine and the mind-body problem in the
Enlightenment’ in Technology and Culture, 49, 1036-1044.
[12] Vermeir, K. (2008) ‘Imagination between Physick and Philosophy. On the Central Role of
the Imagination in the Work of Henry More (1614-1687).’ in Intellectual History Review,
18 (1), 119-137.
[13] Vermeir, K. (2007) ‘Athanasius Kircher’s Magical Instruments: An Essay on Science,
Religion and Applied Metaphysics (1602–1680).’ in Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, 38 (2), 363-400.
[14] Vermeir, K. (2006) ‘A demarkációs probléma felelevenítése’ [‘The Demarcation Problem
Revisited’] (trans. Koronczay Dávid and Zelei Borbála) in Replika - Social Science
Quarterly, nr. 54-55, 125-156. (ISSN: 0865-8188). (Special issue on demarcation, with
other contributions by Steven Shapin, Thomas Gieryn, Jane Gregory and Steve Miller.)
[15] Vermeir, K. (2005) ‘The Magic of the Magic Lantern (1660-1700). On Analogical
Demonstration and the Visualisation of the Invisible’ in The British Journal for the
History of Science, 38 (2), 127-159.
Vermeir,
K. (2005) ‘The ‘Physical Prophet’ and the Powers of the Imagination. Part II. A
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case-study on dowsing and the naturalisation of the moral (1685-1710)’ in Studies in
History and Philosophy of Science, 36C (1), 1-24.
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[17] Vermeir, K. (2004) ‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall... on the aesthetics and metaphysics of 17 century scientific/artistic spectacles’ in Kritische Berichte, Zeitschrift für Kunst- und
Kulturwissenschaften, 32 (2), 27-38.
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Vermeir, K. (2004) ‘The ‘Physical Prophet’ and the Powers of the Imagination. Part I. A
case-study on prophecy, vapours and the imagination (1685-1710)’ in Studies in History
and Philosophy of Science, 35C (4), 561-591.
Articles in Peer Reviewed International Collections:
Vermeir, K. (forthcoming 2014) ‘Die Wiederherstellung von Pluto. Theatralität in
alchemistischen Praktiken der Frühen Neuzeit’ in H. Schramm, L. Schwarte and M. Lorber
(eds.) Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum alchemicum. Berlin: De Gruyter.
[2] Vermeir, K. (2014) ‘Tout dépend des circonstances. Superstition, lois de la nature et dissolution
du préternaturel au tournant du XVIIIe siècle’ in Olivier Christin, Fabrice Flückiger, and
Naima Ghermani (eds.), Marie mondialisée: penser le surnaturel à l'époque moderne.
Neuchâtel: Alphil.
[3] Vermeir, K. (2014) ‘Guérir ceux qui ont la foi. Le mesmérisme et l'imagination historique ’
in B. Belhoste and N. Edelman (ed.) Le Mesmérisme en Contexte. Paris: Sorbonne University
Press.
[4] Vermeir, K. (2013) ‘Mechanical Philosophy in an Enchanted World. Cartesian Empiricism in
Balthasar Bekker’s Radical Reformation’ in Mihnea Dobre and Tammy Nyden (eds.)
Cartesian Empiricisms. New York: Springer, 275-306.
[5] Vermeir, K. (2013) ‘Philosophy and Genealogy. Ways of writing the history of philosophy’ in
Mogens Lærke, Eric Schliesser, and Justin E. H. Smith (eds.), Philosophy and Its History:
New Essays on the Methods and Aims of Research in the History of Philosophy. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. 50-70.
[6] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘“Bent and Directed towards Him”. Kircher’s sunflower clock seen from a
baroque perspective’ in O. Gal and C. Raz (eds.) Science in the Age of Baroque. International
Archives of the History of Ideas. New York: Springer, 37-65.
[7] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘Preface: Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in context, 250 years
later’ in The Science of Sensibility. Reading Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry.
International Archives of the History of Ideas. New York: Springer Publishers (with M.
Deckard), v–xx. (ISBN 987-94-007-2101-2)
[8] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘Enquiries into the Science of Sensibility’ in The Science of Sensibility.
Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in Context. Reading Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry.
International Archives of the History of Ideas. New York: Springer Publishers (with M.
Deckard), 3-56 (ISBN 987-94-007-2101-2).
[9] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘Vampires as “creatures of the imagination” in the Early Modern
Period’ in Y. Haskell (ed.) Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the
Early Modern Period. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 341-373. (ISBN 978-2-503-527963).
[10] Vermeir, K. (2011) ‘Waren oder Wahrheit? Wissenschaftliche Forschung als Ökonomie
des Schenkens’ in Ch. Krijnen, Ch. Lorenz, J. Umlauf (eds.) Wahrheit oder Gewinn?:
Über die Ökonomisierung von Universität und Wissenschaft. Königshausen & Neumann.
133-157. (ISBN 978-3-8260-4528-8).
[11] Vermeir, K. (2011) ‘Circulating knowledge or superstition? The Dutch Debate on
Divination (1696-1717)’ in S. Dupré and C. Lüthy (eds.) Silent Messengers. Knowledge
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Affairs in the Early Modern Low Countries. Berlin/Zürich/Vienna: LIT Verlag. 293-328
(ISBN 978-3-8258-1635-3)
[12] Vermeir, K. (2009) ‘Wonder, Magic and Natural Philosophy. The disenchantment thesis
revisited.’ in M. Deckard and P. Losonczi (eds.) Philosophy Begins in Wonder. Eugene:
Wipf and Stock. 43-71.
[13] Vermeir, K. (2006) ‘The Reality of Failure. On the interpretation of success and failure in
(the history and philosophy of) science and technology’ in S. Zielinski and D. Link (eds.)
Variantology II. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies. Cologne:
Walter König. 335 - 360. (ISBN10: 3-86560-050-6; ISBN13: 978-3-86560-050-9)
[14] Vermeir, K. (2006) ‘The imagination as medium - on the history of creativity, madness and
the arts’ in T. Hensel, H.U. Reck, S. Reither and S. Zielinski (eds.) Immer wieder weiter.
Lab – Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate. Cologne: W. König. 109-125.
[15] Vermeir, K. (2005) ‘The Hidden History of the Cyborg. A Historio-Philosophical Essay on
the Magic of Technology’ in S. Zielinski and S. Wagnermaier (eds.) Variantology I. On
deep time relations of arts, sciences and technologies. Cologne: W. König. 223-246.
(ISBN: 3-88375-914-7)
Publications in Conference Proceedings, Art Catalogues, National Journals or Collections:
Vermeir, K. (2013) ‘Statement: What kind of management suits science best?’ in Bernd
Henningsen, Jürgen Schlaeger and Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (eds.) Humboldt's Model. The Future
of Universities in the World of Research. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, 143-147
(ISBN 978-3-8305-3208-8).
[2] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘Optical Instruments in the Service of God: Light metaphors for the
circulation of Jesuit knowledge in China’ in Roca-Rosell, A. (ed.). The Circulation of Science
and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the ESHS. Barcelona:
SCHCT-IEC, p. 333-337.
[3] Vermeir, K. (2012) ‘The Culture of Immortality: science, immortality and the good life.’ In
In-Residence Magazine. The European Biennial of Contemporary Art: Manifesta 9,
Spring 2012, 80-81 (ISBN 9789081914703).
[4] Vermeir, K. (2011) ‘Vooraf’ in Deus ex Machina, 137, 1-2.
[5] Vermeir, K. (2011) ‘Lucy in vermomming met diamanten: subjectiviteit en objectiviteit in
de wetenschappen en de kunsten’ in Deus ex Machina, 137, 26-34.
[6] Vermeir, K. (2010) ‘Vampirisme, corps mastiquants et la force de l’imagination : Analyse
des premiers traités sur les vampires (1659-1755)’ in Camenae, 12 (numéro sur la
Fantaisie sous la dir. de C. Pigné) (ISSN 2102-5541)
** New Scientists article (29/01/2011) about this research **
[7] Vermeir, K. (2010) ‘The markets and design’ in DESIGN MASS, Onomatopee 36, 67-86.
(ISBN 9-789078-454540)
[8] Vermeir, K. (2010) ‘Notes on design and technological determinism’ in DESIGN MASS,
Onomatopee 36, 87-98. (ISBN 9-789078-454540)
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Vermeir, K. (2010) ‘Impossible instruments and technological determinism’ in DESIGN
MASS, Onomatopee 36, 99-110. (ISBN 9-789078-454540)
[10] Vermeir, K. (2010) 'Objectiviteit: een historische epistemologie' [‘Objectivity: A Historical
Epistemology] in Karakter, 27 (3), 16-8 (ISSN 1379-0390).
[11] Vermeir, K. (2010) ‘Historical Epistemology’ in The Reasoner. 4 (1), 10-12. [W]
[12] Vermeir, K. (2009) ‘Manager of Universitas? Wetenschappen in de laatmoderne
maatschappij.’ [‘Manager or Universitas? The sciences in the late-modern society’] In
Karakter. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap, 26, 25-27 (ISSN 1379-0390).
[13] Vermeir, K (2007) ‘Science on Trial’ in Preprints in Analytic Philosophy, 9, 1-23.
[14] Vermeir, K. (2006) ‘Kunst, en haar nieuwe flirts met ‘het politieke’’ [‘Art, and its new
flirts with ‘the political’’] in DWB, 151 (2), 305-320.
[15] Vermeir, K. (2006) ‘Een nieuwe dimensie voor kunst en politiek?’ [A New Dimension for
Art and Politics?] in S. Leyssen, K. Vandeputte, B. Vandenabeele and K. Vermeir (eds.)
De nieuwe politieke dimensie van de kunsten. Budel: Damon. 5-24.
[16] Vermeir, K. (2005) ‘Magical Science or Scientific Magic? Rationality & Irrationality and
the Magic & Science debate from a Historical and Philosophical Perspective’ in EASST
Review, 24 (2/3), 15-17.
[17] Vermeir, K. (2004) ‘De Film en zijn Museum. Over de esthetiek van het verleden’ [Film and
its Museum. On the Aesthetics of the Past] in B. Vandenabeele and K. Vermeir (eds.)
Transgressie in de Kunst. Budel: Damon. (with S. Leyssen). 46-62.
[18] Vermeir, K. (2004) ‘Kunst, transgressie en de grenzen van de tijd-ruimte’ [Art, Transgression
and the Limits of Space-Time] in B. Vandenabeele and K. Vermeir (eds.) Transgressie in de
Kunst. Budel: Damon. (with B. Vandenabeele). 5-10.
[19] Vermeir, K. (2004) ‘Gekke Dichters. Een historisch filosofisch essay over verbeelding,
waanzin en creativiteit’ [Mad Poets. An historical-philosophical essay on imagination,
madness and creativity] in Deus ex Machina, 28 (108), 75-81. [Flemish Fund for Literature]
[20] Vermeir, K. (2003) ‘Kircher’s Magic Lantern Reconsidered’ in J. Frow (ed.) Visual
Knowledges. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1-7. (ISBN 0 9532713 3 1)
[21] Vermeir, K. (2003) ‘Kijken naar de sterren… Een wetenschapshistorische analyse van
gemedieerde zintuiglijkheid’ [Looking at the Stars… An Analysis of Mediated Perceptions
from the Perspective of History of Science] in B. Vandenabeele and K. Vermeir (eds.) (2003)
Gemedieerde Zintuiglijkheid. Budel: Damon. 113-128.
[22] Vermeir, K. (2003) ‘Gemedieerde zintuiglijkheid in ‘esthetisch’ perspectief’ [Mediated
Sensibility in an ‘Aesthetic’ Perspective] in B. Vandenabeele and K. Vermeir (eds.) (2003)
Gemedieerde Zintuiglijkheid. Budel: Damon. 7-12. (with B. Vandenabeele).
[23] Vermeir, K. (2002) ‘Van alchemist tot gentleman: empirie in de wetenschappen’ [From the
Alchemist to the Gentleman: Empiricism in the Sciences] in R. Bartsch (ed.) Filosofie &
Empirie. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 77-91.
[24] Vermeir, K. (2001) ‘De moeizame verhouding van filosofie en ICT’ [The Difficult
Relationship between Philosophy and ICT] in Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor
Wijsbegeerte, 92 (2), 146-149. (with T. Reydon). [NAT/C]
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Books:
K. Vermeir (eds.) (2012) Malebranche et l’imagination puissante. Special Issue for Rivista
di Storia della Filosofia (4). (With R. Carbone)
[2] K. Vermeir (eds.) (2012) States of Secrecy. From Alchemy to the Atomic Bomb. Special
Issue of British Journal for the History of Science. (With D. Margocsy)
[3] K. Vermeir (eds.) (2012) The Science of Sensibility. Reading Edmund Burke’s Philosophical
Enquiry. International Archives of the History of Ideas. New York: Springer (with M.
Deckard).
[4] K. Vermeir (eds.) (2011) Spelende Geesten. Essays over Kunst en Wetenschap. [Playing
Minds. Essays on Art and Science]. Double special issue of Deus ex Machina. Nr. 137, June
2011. (161 p).
[5] K. Vermeir (eds.) (2006) De nieuwe politieke dimensie van de kunsten. Jaarboek voor
Esthetica 2005. [The New Political Dimension of the Arts. Annual of Aesthetics 2005].
Netherlands: Damon publishers. ISBN: 905573683x (with S. Leyssen, K. Vandeputte, B.
Vandenabeele). (169 p.)
[6] K. Vermeir (2005) Magical Science or Scientific Magic? The Magic and Science debate from
a Historical and Philosophical Perspective. University of Leuven. (401 p.)
[7] K. Vermeir (eds.) (2004) Transgressie in de Kunst. Jaarboek voor Esthetica 2004.
[Transgression in Art. Annual of Aesthetics 2004]. Netherlands: Damon publishers. ISBN: 90
5573 576 0 (with B. Vandenabeele).
[8] K. Vermeir (eds.) (2003) Gemedieerde Zintuiglijkheid. Jaarboek voor Esthetica 2003.
[Mediated Perceptions. Annual of Aesthetics 2003]. Netherlands: Damon publishers. ISBN:
90 5573 407 1 (with B. Vandenabeele).
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