Workshop - Tschirnhaus: Invention, Logic, and Medicine of the Mind
Programme

14:00-14:05 Welcome
14:05-14:45 Michael Jaworzy (CNRS-MFO, Oxford), Tschirnhaus and the Cartesians
14:45-15:30 Mogens Lærke (CNRS-IHRIM/MFO, Lyon/Oxford), Traveling with Tschirnhaus: Some Remarks on the First European Reception of Spinoza
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Pablo Montosa Molinero (Barcelona), Relational Post-Cartesian Physics: A Preliminary Study
16:45-17:00 Concluding remarks

Contact: mailto:mogens.laerke@cnrs.fr and/or mailto:michael.jaworzyn@cnrs.fr
Date: 4 February 2026, 14:00
Venue: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Speakers: Michael Jaworzyn (CNRS-MFO, Oxford), Mogens Laerke (CNRS-IHRIM/MFO, Lyon/Oxford), Pablo Montosa Molinero (Barcelona)
Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford
Organisers: Mogens Laerke (CNRS-IHRIM/MFO, Lyon/Oxford), Michael Jaworzyn (CNRS-MFO, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: mogens.laerke@cnrs.fr
Part of: NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark