Agenda

Papers presented in the workshop investigate ways in which philosophical and scientific ideas were discussed and circulated through the mediation and within the context of the so-called
“Cavendish Circle” during the 1640s.
By gathering five expert contributors, this event aims to shed light on a vibrant intellectual context, which was seminal for the advancement of the ideas of pivotal thinkers in the history
of European philosophy, such as Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, and Walter Charleton.
Papers discussed in the workshop will be submitted for a special issue in Hobbes Studies (forthcoming in 2025).
The event takes place 30 years after the publication of one of the most important studies of the Cavendish Circle to date, namely the special issue The Cavendish Circle in The Seventeenth Century 9:2 (1994, ed. Timothy Raylor).

Invited speakers:
Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge)
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
Karolina Hübner (Cornell University)
Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia)
Timothy Raylor (Carleton College)

Organization / Info: Oberto Marrama, Pietro Daniel Omodeo

This event is part of the MSCA-PF project MC-EuCon “Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) in the history of European ideas of consciousness” (PI Oberto Marrama), GA n. 101064483.