The international conference ‘The Radical Enlightenment: The Big Picture and its Details’ seeks to bring together state-of-the-art research on the so-called ‘Radical Enlightenment’, which refers to a distinct yet multi-faceted line of thought within the Enlightenment movement that puts great emphasis on – inter alia – political reform and activism, personal freedom, social equality, and critique of religion. Continue reading →

 Egoism played a central role in enlightenment ethics. The first wave of egoist theory emerged out of Protestant theologizing, Epicurean revivalists like Pierre Gassendi, and especially the work of Thomas Hobbes. But whereas those influences dominated late 17th and early 18th century discussion of egoism, the egoist “culprit” of the greater part of the 18th century, at least in Britain, and especially in Scotland, was Bernard Mandeville. Continue reading →

Through this Colloquium, we wish to explore the theory of substance and substantial forms, especially in connection with the moment 1678-1679. Continue reading →

This workshop on “Letters by Early Modern Philosophers” will take place during the ISSEI conference of 02-06 July 2012. You will find more info at the conference site at http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/. The precise date of the workshop will be announced later on. We are especially interested in papers which discuss (a) letter(s) written in the 17th century discussing controversial items at the border between early science and early modern philosophy, such as those by Galileo, Descartes, Mersenne, Boyle, Spinoza, Newton, Huygens, Hobbes, Oldenburg, Leibniz, and so on. Continue reading →

The bilingual conference will take place at the Université de Sherbrooke, Campus Longueuil (near Montréal), Canada. The conference is sponsored by the International Berkeley Society and the Laboratoire de recherche sur la pensée moderne. Continue reading →