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Category: Past Events

Conference: Lots of Understanding and Communication ?

  We are pleased to announce the conference “Lots of Understanding and Communication? Practices of Collaboration and Collective Knowledge in Early Modern Natural Philosophy”, organized by Mogens Lærke (CNRS, MFO/IHRIM) and Sophie Roux (ENS-PSL)....

Nicolaus Steno’s Geology – Reading Session

Nicolaus Steno’s Geology: The Best ‘Principles of Nature’ are ‘Common’ and ‘Public’.” [20 NOVEMBER 2024] Led by Raphaële Andrault (CNRS, IHRIM-ENS Lyon).  The objective of this reading session is to examine the significance and...

Mandeville’s Medical Materialism – Reading Session

    Bernard Mandeville reading group [5 June 2024] Led by Charles Wolfe (Université Toulouse).   This reading session will look at Bernard Mandeville’s Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1711, revised edition 1730),...

London Spinoza Circle seminar on May 21st

The London Spinoza Circle will meet on Tuesday, May 21st, with a talk by Mogens Laerke (CNRS / Oxford) titled “Common Notions of Humanity: Human Authority, Human Living and Intellectual Friendship in Spinoza.”   The seminar will be...

Mersenne — Reading Session

  Marin Mersenne reading group [1 MAY 2024] Led by Emily Kent (University of Edinburgh). This reading session will look at Mersenne’s Questions theologiques, physiques, morales, et mathematiques (1634), a text which details a series of...