Dispute between Philosophers or Dispute over Philosophy? Debates over Moral and Political Philosophy in the 17th Century

Conveners: Luc Foisneau and Martine Pécharman

Morning Session I Chair : Ian Maclean (All Souls College, University of Oxford)

10.30-11.30 Frédéric Gabriel (CERPHI, CNRS-ENS Lyon) Les droits de la querelle, ou la société au risque de la théologie morale : un clivage académique en 1643- 1644 entre la Sorbonne et le collège jésuite.

Morning Session II Chair : Alain Cantillon (Paris III/Wadham College, University of Oxford)

12.00-1.00 Isabelle Moreau (University College London) Trials and quarrels : the ‘Libertinage’ as a case study.

Afternoon Session I Chair : Alexis Tadié (Paris IV-IUF/All Souls College, University of Oxford)

2.30-3.30 Thomas Pink (King’s College London) Suarez and Hobbes on the right to liberty and the coercion of belief.

Afternoon Session II Chair : Philip Beeley (Linacre College, University of Oxford)

4.00-5.00 Alexander Douglas (Institute of Philosophy, University of London) Spinoza’s Metaphysical Thoughts and the Theological Implications of Cartesian Metaphysics.

5.00-6.00 Mogens Laerke (CERPHI, CNRS-ENS Lyon) Sufficit talibus placuisse. La controverse entre Leibniz et Régis dans le Journal des sçavansen 1697.