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MOGENS LAERKE

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Mogens Lærke, born in Denmark in 1971, is senior researcher at the CNRS. After finishing his PhD at the University of Paris IV in 2003, he held positions at Aarhus University, the Carlsberg Foundation, Tel Aviv University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Aberdeen. He has been a researcher at the CNRS since 2013. He obtained his habilitation at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2014. He specialises in early modern philosophy and intellectual history and has published widely on early modern metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion and political philosophy, and historiographical-philosophical methodology. Monographs include Leibniz lecteur de Spinoza. La genèse d’une opposition complexe (Champion 2008), Les Lumières de Leibniz. Controverses avec Huet, Bayle, Regis et More (Classiques Garnier 2015), and Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing (Oxford University Press 2021). Lærke is moreover secretary of the British Society of the History of Philosophy (BSHP) and the managing editor of the book series “BSHP New Texts in the History of Philosophy” published by the Oxford University Press. He is moreover the founder and co-organizer of the annual conference Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (SSEMP).

Email: mogens.laerke@cnrs.fr