Across the Channel: Intellectual Relations between England and France in the Early Modern Period

Monday 28 November

2.15pm Welcome and tea/coffee

Chair: James Brown (History Faculty, Oxford)

2.30pm Theo Verbeek (Utrecht University)

The Reception of Descartes’ Works in England (Hobbes, Digby, the Cavendish family).

3.30pm Jean-Pascal Anfray (ENS, Paris)

The Debate between More and Descartes and its Scholastic Sources.

4.30pm Tea/Coffee

Chair: Kim McLean-Fiander (History Faculty, Oxford)

5.00pm Philip Beeley (History Faculty, Oxford)

Conflict and Collaboration. John Wallis's Intellectual Relations with French thinkers

Tuesday 29 November

10.15am Tea/Coffee

Chair: Philip Beeley (History Faculty, Oxford)

10.30am Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO)

Is Locke too indebted to Descartes? An English Debate about the Essay’s Allegiance to French “New Logic”

11.30am Philippe Hamou (Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille)

Philosophy in the Margins of the Essay: Pierre Coste Translator and Annotator of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding