Sandrine Parageau
@sparageau.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern British History @sorbonne-universite.fr @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
Author of The Paradoxes of Ignorance (2023) @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Author of The Paradoxes of Ignorance (2023) @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Pinned
The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) is generally presented as one of the founders of modern Western philosophy and science. Yet Descartes was not always the undisputed champion of reason that he is today. Why was he accused of being a purveyor of ignorance?
Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? | Aeon Essays
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
buff.ly
Sur Descartes, menteur et manipulateur - lecture de plage! 😉
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Le programme des 17e Journées des Doctorants et Jeunes Chercheurs de la SEAA 17-18 et de la SFEDS est disponible 👀👀
On se retrouve les 25-26 septembre 2025 à l'université de Rouen Normandie !
On se retrouve les 25-26 septembre 2025 à l'université de Rouen Normandie !
September 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Le programme des 17e Journées des Doctorants et Jeunes Chercheurs de la SEAA 17-18 et de la SFEDS est disponible 👀👀
On se retrouve les 25-26 septembre 2025 à l'université de Rouen Normandie !
On se retrouve les 25-26 septembre 2025 à l'université de Rouen Normandie !
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#Bluehistorians #Skystorians
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
August 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#Bluehistorians #Skystorians
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
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apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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A very exciting new John Locke find by @davidrarmitage.bsky.social now published in the @historicaljnl.bsky.social!
📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript
We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇
It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇
It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript
www.cambridge.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A very exciting new John Locke find by @davidrarmitage.bsky.social now published in the @historicaljnl.bsky.social!
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Nice stuff from Armitage, and the salient thing here is just how heavily involved Locke was in the Board of Trade in the 1690s, and therefore in colonial policy and empire-making. Locke's 1690s publications also include his remarks on the poor laws.
That is not a coincidence.
That is not a coincidence.
📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript
We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇
It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇
It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript
www.cambridge.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Nice stuff from Armitage, and the salient thing here is just how heavily involved Locke was in the Board of Trade in the 1690s, and therefore in colonial policy and empire-making. Locke's 1690s publications also include his remarks on the poor laws.
That is not a coincidence.
That is not a coincidence.
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This looks fantastic! Very tempted indeed.
>> Workshop: ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ – CALL FOR PAPERS - due 1 Sept. #skystorians 🗃️ Thanks to @georgianlords.bsky.social for the heads-up!
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/wor...
>> Workshop: ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ – CALL FOR PAPERS - due 1 Sept. #skystorians 🗃️ Thanks to @georgianlords.bsky.social for the heads-up!
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/wor...
Workshop: 'Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
Workshop | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany | 11-13 May 2026 ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1914’ Call for Papers, deadline - 1 September 2025 In recent...
royalhistsoc.org
July 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This looks fantastic! Very tempted indeed.
>> Workshop: ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ – CALL FOR PAPERS - due 1 Sept. #skystorians 🗃️ Thanks to @georgianlords.bsky.social for the heads-up!
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/wor...
>> Workshop: ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ – CALL FOR PAPERS - due 1 Sept. #skystorians 🗃️ Thanks to @georgianlords.bsky.social for the heads-up!
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/wor...
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The French liar
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him? | by Sandrine Parageau aeon.co/essays/was-r... #Descartes #philosophy #PhilSky #philsci
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him? | by Sandrine Parageau aeon.co/essays/was-r... #Descartes #philosophy #PhilSky #philsci
Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? | Aeon Essays
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
aeon.co
July 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The French liar
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him? | by Sandrine Parageau aeon.co/essays/was-r... #Descartes #philosophy #PhilSky #philsci
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him? | by Sandrine Parageau aeon.co/essays/was-r... #Descartes #philosophy #PhilSky #philsci
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The French liar
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
By Sandrine Parageau
aeon.co/essays/was-r...
Descartes at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#Books #Literature #Philosophy
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
By Sandrine Parageau
aeon.co/essays/was-r...
Descartes at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#Books #Literature #Philosophy
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The French liar
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
By Sandrine Parageau
aeon.co/essays/was-r...
Descartes at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#Books #Literature #Philosophy
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
By Sandrine Parageau
aeon.co/essays/was-r...
Descartes at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#Books #Literature #Philosophy
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René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries Why?: "The French Liar" @sparageau.bsky.social @aeon.co
(Plus- John Dee)
Marshaling our marbles: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/13/i...
(Plus- John Dee)
Marshaling our marbles: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/13/i...
July 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries Why?: "The French Liar" @sparageau.bsky.social @aeon.co
(Plus- John Dee)
Marshaling our marbles: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/13/i...
(Plus- John Dee)
Marshaling our marbles: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/13/i...
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Sur Descartes, menteur et manipulateur - lecture de plage! 😉
The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) is generally presented as one of the founders of modern Western philosophy and science. Yet Descartes was not always the undisputed champion of reason that he is today. Why was he accused of being a purveyor of ignorance?
Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? | Aeon Essays
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
buff.ly
July 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Sur Descartes, menteur et manipulateur - lecture de plage! 😉
Reposted by Sandrine Parageau
The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) is generally presented as one of the founders of modern Western philosophy and science. Yet Descartes was not always the undisputed champion of reason that he is today. Why was he accused of being a purveyor of ignorance?
Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? | Aeon Essays
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
buff.ly
July 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) is generally presented as one of the founders of modern Western philosophy and science. Yet Descartes was not always the undisputed champion of reason that he is today. Why was he accused of being a purveyor of ignorance?
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🗓️ Les 18-20 juin se tiendra le colloque Aphra Behn on the Move @upcite.bsky.social @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social et @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
Le programme ➡️ aphrabehnparis.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
Le programme ➡️ aphrabehnparis.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
May 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🗓️ Les 18-20 juin se tiendra le colloque Aphra Behn on the Move @upcite.bsky.social @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social et @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
Le programme ➡️ aphrabehnparis.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
Le programme ➡️ aphrabehnparis.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
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Save the date! Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers “Theories and Policies” Who Cares? 2026
“The Extraction of the Stone of Madness”, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1494, Museo del Prado Call for Papers – International conference Who Cares ? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world #2 Theories and P...
whocares.hypotheses.org
June 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Save the date! Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
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Le CREA est heureux d'annoncer la parution de l'ouvrage de Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon "Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon. Politiques de la science sous la Révolution et l'Empire" (Liverpool UP). Plus d'infos➡️ tinyurl.com/4wyebkp5
May 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Le CREA est heureux d'annoncer la parution de l'ouvrage de Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon "Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon. Politiques de la science sous la Révolution et l'Empire" (Liverpool UP). Plus d'infos➡️ tinyurl.com/4wyebkp5
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Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.
May 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.
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The editors!
from @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social
@sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social
📘launch of
Fragmented Powers: Confrontation and Cooperation in the English-Speaking World 📘@emeraldpublishing.bsky.social
@emmanuelleavril.bsky.social
@lcossubeaumont.bsky.social
David Fée
@fabricemourlon.bsky.social
from @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social
@sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social
📘launch of
Fragmented Powers: Confrontation and Cooperation in the English-Speaking World 📘@emeraldpublishing.bsky.social
@emmanuelleavril.bsky.social
@lcossubeaumont.bsky.social
David Fée
@fabricemourlon.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The editors!
from @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social
@sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social
📘launch of
Fragmented Powers: Confrontation and Cooperation in the English-Speaking World 📘@emeraldpublishing.bsky.social
@emmanuelleavril.bsky.social
@lcossubeaumont.bsky.social
David Fée
@fabricemourlon.bsky.social
from @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social
@sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social
📘launch of
Fragmented Powers: Confrontation and Cooperation in the English-Speaking World 📘@emeraldpublishing.bsky.social
@emmanuelleavril.bsky.social
@lcossubeaumont.bsky.social
David Fée
@fabricemourlon.bsky.social
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Change of plans: John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social will be J. Michelle Coghlan's respondent. Join us in person or online for a discussion of Louise Michel's reception in the United States and the transnational turn in anarchist studies!
April 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Change of plans: John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social will be J. Michelle Coghlan's respondent. Join us in person or online for a discussion of Louise Michel's reception in the United States and the transnational turn in anarchist studies!
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Hot off the press and on my desk! Looking forward to reading this wonderful work edited by @fabribald.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hot off the press and on my desk! Looking forward to reading this wonderful work edited by @fabribald.bsky.social
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CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026,
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
April 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026,
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
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We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June
![WED 4th JUNE
9.30-11 METHODS
Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden)
Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science
Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy
Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age
Coffee
11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION
Chair: Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen)
Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique
Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy
Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer
CLOSE AND LUNCH
This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:peyr652ptzk3m4gf3dgs4gmk/bafkreihuop4aupg2mp34d6apimeredvytwqabfll73i3g5ynem2eahujju@jpeg)
April 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June
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📣 New open access publication on early modern student notes, in which Leuven features quite prominently, as it has a long tradition of research in this source type (e.g. Magister Dixit, DaLeT). An extra surplus is that it has appeared in the year of KU Leuven's sexcentenary.
Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)
library.oapen.org
April 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
📣 New open access publication on early modern student notes, in which Leuven features quite prominently, as it has a long tradition of research in this source type (e.g. Magister Dixit, DaLeT). An extra surplus is that it has appeared in the year of KU Leuven's sexcentenary.
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Fantastic news for all #earlymodern #skystorians: Next week, the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2025 will take place in Vienna with Prof. Lorraine Daston, hosted by the CEU. The leitmotiv of the lecture series: Diversity. And the best: you can also attend online.
www.ceu.edu/article/2025...
www.ceu.edu/article/2025...
March 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Fantastic news for all #earlymodern #skystorians: Next week, the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2025 will take place in Vienna with Prof. Lorraine Daston, hosted by the CEU. The leitmotiv of the lecture series: Diversity. And the best: you can also attend online.
www.ceu.edu/article/2025...
www.ceu.edu/article/2025...
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Gutted I'll miss this due to work but I'd encourage anyone in London on Thursday to go along and hear Nikki's paper. Knowing her work as I do I'm sure it'll be a fascinating talk.
Our next event is on Thursday 27 February, 5.30-7.00 pm. Nicola Clarke (Birkbeck) will speak on seventeenth-century accuracy and news: '“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685.'
www.history.ac.uk/events/i-am-...
www.history.ac.uk/events/i-am-...
“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685
www.history.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Gutted I'll miss this due to work but I'd encourage anyone in London on Thursday to go along and hear Nikki's paper. Knowing her work as I do I'm sure it'll be a fascinating talk.