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Author: Mogens Lærke

Research environment

  NOTCOM is conducted within the general framework of the Institut de Sciences Humaines et Sociales (INSHS) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). It is administratively shared between two INSHS units:...

Of Making Cloth: Some Epistemological Lessons

          On November 27, 1661, William Petty presented a “history of clothing” at a meeting of the Royal Society as part of a collective endeavour to collect information about various...

Parker – Reading Session

  Samuel Parker reading group [14 FEBRUARY 2024] Led by Mogens Laerke. This session will be on “The Proleptic Principles of Samuel Parker,” a draft paper on common Epicurean and Gassendist elements in Parker’s...

Forum Descartes 2024

  Our postdocs will be speaking on January, 18 at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris, Hôtel de Lauzun, 17 quai d’Anjou, 75004, salle des Gardes.  15.00: Niall Dilucia (CNRS, IHRIM / MFO), “Natural Philosophy as...

Digby – Reading Session

  Digby reading group [14 December 2023] With Niall Dilucia. Participants: Mogens Laerke, Louis Rouquayrol, Emily Kent (Edinburgh University). Location: Maison Française d’Oxford. Notcom offices. Time: 2-4pm.            

Annual Conference 2023

On November 8, the Notcom team and its pool of collaborators held their annual advisory board meeting at the Maison Française d’Oxford. This was followed by a two-day conference on ” Axioms, Hypotheses, and...