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Gianni Paganini

Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro", Dipartimento Studi Umanistici, Faculty Member

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Morali Storiche e Filologiche, Emeritus

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I’m full professor for history of philosophy at the University of Piedmont (Vercelli, Italy; gianenrico.paganini@uniupo.it) and fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome), working primarily on the history of Late Renaissance, Early Modern and Enlightenment philosophy. I am member of the editorial boards of several periodicals, among which Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana, Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, Historia Philosophica, and of series (“International Archives for the History of Ideas”, “Women in the History of Philosophy and Science”, “Epicurea”).
I got in 2009 the La Bruyère Award for Philosophy, given by the Académie Française (Paris) for my book Skepsis. Le débat des modernes sur le scepticisme (Paris, Vrin, 2008) and in 2011 the Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome) for Philosophy. This prize is given every ten years for the scientific production of the prize winner over the past decade
I am the author, editor or co-editor of 45 books and 218 articles and chapters.
I’m working primarily in the field of Early Modern philosophy (on Hobbes and Gassendi) and Enlightenment philosophy (David Hume’s Dialogues and their continental sources and context). I’m interested in problems in the history of scepticism and empiricism, especially concerning the relations between philosophy and sciences. In this connection, I’m especially interested in problems in epistemology, method, cosmology, and gender equality. My latest book: De Bayle à Hume. Tolérance, hypothèses, systèmes, H. Champion, Paris, 2023, p. 670

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1. Comment dépasser le scepticisme. L’influence de Diderot sur les « Dialogues sur la religion naturelle de David Hume », Diderot Studies 39 . ed. Zeina Hakim and Fayçal Falaky, Droz, Geneva 2023, p. 123-138

Diderot Studies, 2023

Comme l’a remarqué Colas Duflo, en considérant les oscillations du philosophe français, « la tent... more Comme l’a remarqué Colas Duflo, en considérant les oscillations du philosophe français, « la tentation du scepticisme est permanente dans l’œuvre de Diderot, même lorsqu’il affirme, comme dans le Rêve de D’Alembert, que le vrai scepticisme n’est pas possible » . À n’en pas douter, Diderot demeurait l’interlocuteur idéal pour Hume lors de son séjour parisien et surtout sur les questions débattues dans les Dialogues. En effet, à l’exclusion du métaphysicien et mystique qu’est Déméa, les deux autres personnages des Dialogues (le déiste newtonien Cléanthe, d’une part, et de l’autre le sceptique Philon tenté par le naturalisme matérialiste) ont des traits en commun avec des phases différentes de l’évolution intellectuelle de Diderot : le premier avec le déisme des Pensées, le deuxième, comme nous le verrons, avec la cosmologie naturaliste de Saunderson dans la Lettre sur les aveugles.

Bibliographie (jusquà 2022) des écrits de Gianni Paganini Accademico dei Lincei (Rome) -Emeritus Università del Piemonte Orientale (Vercelli)

Honoré Champion (Paris), 2023

Comprise dans : Philosophie et scepticisme. Mélanges en l'honneur de Gianni Paganini, Sous la dir... more

L'Italie et le libertinisme. Du "proto-liertinism au "libertinisme radical£

Libertinage et Philosophie, 2023

This article relates free thought at the beginning of the 16th century Italy to that of the 17th ... more This article relates free thought at the beginning of the 16th century Italy to that of the 17th century. The case of Pomponazzi is exemplary. The author shows that his texts can be read as proto-libertine, A century later, the Theophrastus redivivius will go so far as to defend the thesis of the "destruction of all laws", at the beginning of a new cycle of the universe and civilizations. We therefore need two new historiographical categories: that of protolibertinism, the other of radical libertinism.

Philosophie et scepticisme de Montaigne à Hume. Mélanges en l'honneur de Gianni Paganini, Chmpion, 2023, p. 594n 3

Honoré Champion, Paris, 2023

There is also in the book the full scientific bibliography of Gianni Paganini' books and papers

Jean Bodin’s Universalism and the Twofold Foundations of Natural Religion

BRILL eBooks, Jun 10, 2022

Skepticism in Early Modern Thought

Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

G. Paganini, Gassendi’s Interplay Between Skepticism and Empiricism, in Pierre Gassendi. Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy, éd. par Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber et Carla Rita Palmerino, Routledge, New York, 2023, p. 75-105

Pierre Gassendi. Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy,

Although early modern skeptics heavily relied on the texts of Sextus Empiricus, which were edited... more Although early modern skeptics heavily relied on the texts of Sextus Empiricus, which were edited and translated into Latin for the first time by Gentian Hervet in 1562 and by Henri Estienne in 1569, the context in which they were reading these works was very different to that of the Greek authors, such as Sextus, or of Romans, like Cicero. In the religious field, the moderns had to cope with a dogmatic faith like Christianity rather than with a civic, mythical and traditional religion like the ancient one; in the philosophical field, instead of opposing dogmatic Hellenistic systems, notably Epicureanism and Stoicism, they were confronted with Scholasticism or new kinds of metaphysics, such as those of Campanella and Descartes. Finally, early modern skeptics were confronted with the dogmatism of the new science.
These three major innovations contributed to reshaping early modern skepticism and had a direct impact on Gassendi’s thought.

Jean Bodin's Universalism and the Twofold Foundations of Natural Religion A New Reading of the Colloquium heptaplomeres. Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion, 1 (2022), p. 145-173

Maimonides, 2022

The Colloquium is a conversation between seven highly educated representatives of various religio... more The Colloquium is a conversation between seven highly educated representatives of
various religions and worldviews: a supporter of natural religion (Toralba), a Calvinist
(Curtius), a Muslim (Octavius), a Roman Catholic (Coroneus), a Lutheran (Fridericus),
a Jew (Salomon), and a pagan (Senamus). Bodin never signed this work and it was
not published during his lifetime. The new concept of religion represented by Toralba
emphasises the role of reason and natural law, independent of any ecclesiastical
allegiance. Here, natural religion is not conceived, as it was earlier, as being preliminary
to divine revelation, but rather as a free-standing position, always distinguished
from—and at times opposed to—traditional religions. Toralba’s universalism and the
genealogies of natural religion that he traces distinguish his religion from Judaism
even though he relies on a twofold foundation: the biblical history of primitive mankind and natural reason .

8. The ways of clandestinity: Radical Cartesianism and Deism in Robert Challe (1659-1721), in Between Secularisation and Reform. Religion in the Enlightenment, ed. A. Tomaszewska, Brill, Leiden, 2022, p. 131-159

Between Secularisation and Reform. Religion in the Enlightenment, ed. A. Tomaszewska, Brill, Leiden, 2022, p. 131-159, 2022

Robert Challe (1659-1721), author of the Difficultés sur la religion proposées au Père Malebranch... more Robert Challe (1659-1721), author of the Difficultés sur la religion proposées au Père Malebranche, was a “radical” Cartesian in the double sense of the word: 1) firstly, because he used Cartesian philosophy in a radical sense, to fight Christianity and “factitious” religions in the name of reason and natural light, by proposing a refined conception of divinity and morality; 2) secondly, because he Went back to the philosophical roots of Cartesianism, rejecting both some theological audacities of Descartes (above all, the theory of the free creation of eternal truths by God) and the mixture of philosophy and religion proposed by Malebranche

Early modern atheism and Renaissance philosophy: the play of paratexts inTheophrastus redivivusand Pomponazzi'sDe immortalitate

Intellectual History Review, 2016

The relationship between the seventeenth-century critique of religious phenomena and their Renais... more The relationship between the seventeenth-century critique of religious phenomena and their Renaissance sources has arisen as one of the new facts in research into the complex cultural movement known, after the classical study by Pintard, as “libertinage érudit”. Although this relationship was really marginal in that book, it is now beginning to receive adequate recognition from French scholars. However, it has been investigated principally in Italian scholarship. Here, the editio princeps of an earlier manuscript work Theophrastus redivivus (anonymous, dated 1659) and some studies relating to it have pointed to the importance of Renaissance authors (Pomponazzi, Cardano, Bodin, Campanella, and Vanini) for its arguments. Also in the particular nature of its compositional forms, Theophrastus redivivus reproduces some typical Renaissance stylistic elements, which are decisive for understanding its significance. This is, for example, the case of the “paratexts” that accompany the work: that is, the frontispiece, the proem, and two final perorations. In the frontispiece, the work is presented as “a work made up of philosophical opinions and offered to the most learned theologians to be destroyed” (opus ex philosophorum opinionibus constructum, et doctissimis theologis ad diruendum propositum). In the proem, the anonymous author, who takes the name of Theophrastus redivivus, proclaims himself a “Christian” and admits that he has collected together all “the forces of atheism” only to offer them up for confutation by theologians. The first final peroration is addressed to “the secular wisemen” (ad sapientes saeculi) and is openly antireligious and atheistic. However, the second and final peroration “to the faithful and to the true wise followers of the Christian religion” (Ad fideles et vere sapientes religionis christianae sectatores) claims to be religious and even pious, attacking those who, having available the “gifts of the Holy Spirit”, “strive to learn from perfidious philosophers that which can only be learned from Christ and from the Holy Spirit”. These people are proclaimed “stupid and impious”. To take these extrinsic declarations (paratexts) literally, at their face value and without placing them in relation either to their late-Renaissance context or to the contents of the work, would mean ignoring a practice commonly used by philosophers and scholars during the Renaissance and the early modern period in order to protect their works from the possible censorship or persecution due to their antireligious contents. This practice had become fairly common during the Renaissance when, as the true face of Aristotle was rediscovered, the philosophical “ratio” was finally freed from the reconciliatory compromises of the religious type that had for centuries been fostered by the Aristotelian scholastics. As we will see, the anonymous author of Theophrastus redivivus ended up by placing

Clandestine Philosophy: Early Modern Clandestine Manuscripts and Their Philosophical Contribution

Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

Hobbes and the French Skeptics

La Pensée clandestine

Aux origines des Lumières. Les manuscrits philosophiques clandestins et l’histoire des idées

Crossing Traditions: Essays on the Reformation and Intellectual History, 2017

CV with PUBLICATIONS September 2022

The Ways of Clandestinity: Radical cartesianism and deism in Robert Challe (1659-1721)

Between Secularisation and Reform. Religion in the Enlightenment, ed. Anna Tomaszewska, Brill, Leiden, 2022, p. 131-159, 2022

Challe is a “radical” Cartesian in the double sense of the word: 1) firstly, because he uses Cart... more Challe is a “radical” Cartesian in the double sense of the word: 1) firstly, because he uses Cartesian philosophy in a radical sense, to fight Christianity and “factitious” religions in the name of reason and natural light, by proposing a refined conception of divinity and morality; 2) secondly, because he goes back to the philosophical roots of Cartesianism, rejecting both some theological audacities of Descartes (above all, the theory of the free creation of eternal truths by God) and the mixture of philosophy and religion proposed by Malebranche.

Pensées secrètes des académiciens : Fontenelle et ses confrères The secret thoughts of academicians - Fontenelles and peers

Ce colloque a l’ambition de faire le point sur les relations des milieux académiques, à la fin du... more

Scepticisme, croyance et opinion : Descartes et les néo-académiciens

Anthropologie sceptique et modernité

in Anthropogie sceptique et modernité, ed. by Sylvia Giocanti, ENS Editions, Lyon 2022, p. 129-14... more

Recensione Mori

1. Comment dépasser le scepticisme. L’influence de Diderot sur les « Dialogues sur la religion naturelle de David Hume », Diderot Studies 39 . ed. Zeina Hakim and Fayçal Falaky, Droz, Geneva 2023, p. 123-138

Diderot Studies, 2023

Comme l’a remarqué Colas Duflo, en considérant les oscillations du philosophe français, « la tent... more Comme l’a remarqué Colas Duflo, en considérant les oscillations du philosophe français, « la tentation du scepticisme est permanente dans l’œuvre de Diderot, même lorsqu’il affirme, comme dans le Rêve de D’Alembert, que le vrai scepticisme n’est pas possible » . À n’en pas douter, Diderot demeurait l’interlocuteur idéal pour Hume lors de son séjour parisien et surtout sur les questions débattues dans les Dialogues. En effet, à l’exclusion du métaphysicien et mystique qu’est Déméa, les deux autres personnages des Dialogues (le déiste newtonien Cléanthe, d’une part, et de l’autre le sceptique Philon tenté par le naturalisme matérialiste) ont des traits en commun avec des phases différentes de l’évolution intellectuelle de Diderot : le premier avec le déisme des Pensées, le deuxième, comme nous le verrons, avec la cosmologie naturaliste de Saunderson dans la Lettre sur les aveugles.

Bibliographie (jusquà 2022) des écrits de Gianni Paganini Accademico dei Lincei (Rome) -Emeritus Università del Piemonte Orientale (Vercelli)

Honoré Champion (Paris), 2023

Comprise dans : Philosophie et scepticisme. Mélanges en l'honneur de Gianni Paganini, Sous la dir... more

L'Italie et le libertinisme. Du "proto-liertinism au "libertinisme radical£

Libertinage et Philosophie, 2023

This article relates free thought at the beginning of the 16th century Italy to that of the 17th ... more This article relates free thought at the beginning of the 16th century Italy to that of the 17th century. The case of Pomponazzi is exemplary. The author shows that his texts can be read as proto-libertine, A century later, the Theophrastus redivivius will go so far as to defend the thesis of the "destruction of all laws", at the beginning of a new cycle of the universe and civilizations. We therefore need two new historiographical categories: that of protolibertinism, the other of radical libertinism.

Philosophie et scepticisme de Montaigne à Hume. Mélanges en l'honneur de Gianni Paganini, Chmpion, 2023, p. 594n 3

Honoré Champion, Paris, 2023

There is also in the book the full scientific bibliography of Gianni Paganini' books and papers

Jean Bodin’s Universalism and the Twofold Foundations of Natural Religion

BRILL eBooks, Jun 10, 2022

Skepticism in Early Modern Thought

Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

G. Paganini, Gassendi’s Interplay Between Skepticism and Empiricism, in Pierre Gassendi. Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy, éd. par Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber et Carla Rita Palmerino, Routledge, New York, 2023, p. 75-105

Pierre Gassendi. Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy,

Although early modern skeptics heavily relied on the texts of Sextus Empiricus, which were edited... more Although early modern skeptics heavily relied on the texts of Sextus Empiricus, which were edited and translated into Latin for the first time by Gentian Hervet in 1562 and by Henri Estienne in 1569, the context in which they were reading these works was very different to that of the Greek authors, such as Sextus, or of Romans, like Cicero. In the religious field, the moderns had to cope with a dogmatic faith like Christianity rather than with a civic, mythical and traditional religion like the ancient one; in the philosophical field, instead of opposing dogmatic Hellenistic systems, notably Epicureanism and Stoicism, they were confronted with Scholasticism or new kinds of metaphysics, such as those of Campanella and Descartes. Finally, early modern skeptics were confronted with the dogmatism of the new science.
These three major innovations contributed to reshaping early modern skepticism and had a direct impact on Gassendi’s thought.

Jean Bodin's Universalism and the Twofold Foundations of Natural Religion A New Reading of the Colloquium heptaplomeres. Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion, 1 (2022), p. 145-173

Maimonides, 2022

The Colloquium is a conversation between seven highly educated representatives of various religio... more The Colloquium is a conversation between seven highly educated representatives of
various religions and worldviews: a supporter of natural religion (Toralba), a Calvinist
(Curtius), a Muslim (Octavius), a Roman Catholic (Coroneus), a Lutheran (Fridericus),
a Jew (Salomon), and a pagan (Senamus). Bodin never signed this work and it was
not published during his lifetime. The new concept of religion represented by Toralba
emphasises the role of reason and natural law, independent of any ecclesiastical
allegiance. Here, natural religion is not conceived, as it was earlier, as being preliminary
to divine revelation, but rather as a free-standing position, always distinguished
from—and at times opposed to—traditional religions. Toralba’s universalism and the
genealogies of natural religion that he traces distinguish his religion from Judaism
even though he relies on a twofold foundation: the biblical history of primitive mankind and natural reason .

8. The ways of clandestinity: Radical Cartesianism and Deism in Robert Challe (1659-1721), in Between Secularisation and Reform. Religion in the Enlightenment, ed. A. Tomaszewska, Brill, Leiden, 2022, p. 131-159

Between Secularisation and Reform. Religion in the Enlightenment, ed. A. Tomaszewska, Brill, Leiden, 2022, p. 131-159, 2022

Robert Challe (1659-1721), author of the Difficultés sur la religion proposées au Père Malebranch... more Robert Challe (1659-1721), author of the Difficultés sur la religion proposées au Père Malebranche, was a “radical” Cartesian in the double sense of the word: 1) firstly, because he used Cartesian philosophy in a radical sense, to fight Christianity and “factitious” religions in the name of reason and natural light, by proposing a refined conception of divinity and morality; 2) secondly, because he Went back to the philosophical roots of Cartesianism, rejecting both some theological audacities of Descartes (above all, the theory of the free creation of eternal truths by God) and the mixture of philosophy and religion proposed by Malebranche

Early modern atheism and Renaissance philosophy: the play of paratexts inTheophrastus redivivusand Pomponazzi'sDe immortalitate

Intellectual History Review, 2016

The relationship between the seventeenth-century critique of religious phenomena and their Renais... more The relationship between the seventeenth-century critique of religious phenomena and their Renaissance sources has arisen as one of the new facts in research into the complex cultural movement known, after the classical study by Pintard, as “libertinage érudit”. Although this relationship was really marginal in that book, it is now beginning to receive adequate recognition from French scholars. However, it has been investigated principally in Italian scholarship. Here, the editio princeps of an earlier manuscript work Theophrastus redivivus (anonymous, dated 1659) and some studies relating to it have pointed to the importance of Renaissance authors (Pomponazzi, Cardano, Bodin, Campanella, and Vanini) for its arguments. Also in the particular nature of its compositional forms, Theophrastus redivivus reproduces some typical Renaissance stylistic elements, which are decisive for understanding its significance. This is, for example, the case of the “paratexts” that accompany the work: that is, the frontispiece, the proem, and two final perorations. In the frontispiece, the work is presented as “a work made up of philosophical opinions and offered to the most learned theologians to be destroyed” (opus ex philosophorum opinionibus constructum, et doctissimis theologis ad diruendum propositum). In the proem, the anonymous author, who takes the name of Theophrastus redivivus, proclaims himself a “Christian” and admits that he has collected together all “the forces of atheism” only to offer them up for confutation by theologians. The first final peroration is addressed to “the secular wisemen” (ad sapientes saeculi) and is openly antireligious and atheistic. However, the second and final peroration “to the faithful and to the true wise followers of the Christian religion” (Ad fideles et vere sapientes religionis christianae sectatores) claims to be religious and even pious, attacking those who, having available the “gifts of the Holy Spirit”, “strive to learn from perfidious philosophers that which can only be learned from Christ and from the Holy Spirit”. These people are proclaimed “stupid and impious”. To take these extrinsic declarations (paratexts) literally, at their face value and without placing them in relation either to their late-Renaissance context or to the contents of the work, would mean ignoring a practice commonly used by philosophers and scholars during the Renaissance and the early modern period in order to protect their works from the possible censorship or persecution due to their antireligious contents. This practice had become fairly common during the Renaissance when, as the true face of Aristotle was rediscovered, the philosophical “ratio” was finally freed from the reconciliatory compromises of the religious type that had for centuries been fostered by the Aristotelian scholastics. As we will see, the anonymous author of Theophrastus redivivus ended up by placing

Clandestine Philosophy: Early Modern Clandestine Manuscripts and Their Philosophical Contribution

Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

Hobbes and the French Skeptics

La Pensée clandestine

Aux origines des Lumières. Les manuscrits philosophiques clandestins et l’histoire des idées

Crossing Traditions: Essays on the Reformation and Intellectual History, 2017

CV with PUBLICATIONS September 2022

The Ways of Clandestinity: Radical cartesianism and deism in Robert Challe (1659-1721)

Between Secularisation and Reform. Religion in the Enlightenment, ed. Anna Tomaszewska, Brill, Leiden, 2022, p. 131-159, 2022

Challe is a “radical” Cartesian in the double sense of the word: 1) firstly, because he uses Cart... more Challe is a “radical” Cartesian in the double sense of the word: 1) firstly, because he uses Cartesian philosophy in a radical sense, to fight Christianity and “factitious” religions in the name of reason and natural light, by proposing a refined conception of divinity and morality; 2) secondly, because he goes back to the philosophical roots of Cartesianism, rejecting both some theological audacities of Descartes (above all, the theory of the free creation of eternal truths by God) and the mixture of philosophy and religion proposed by Malebranche.

Pensées secrètes des académiciens : Fontenelle et ses confrères The secret thoughts of academicians - Fontenelles and peers

Ce colloque a l’ambition de faire le point sur les relations des milieux académiques, à la fin du... more

Scepticisme, croyance et opinion : Descartes et les néo-académiciens

Anthropologie sceptique et modernité

in Anthropogie sceptique et modernité, ed. by Sylvia Giocanti, ENS Editions, Lyon 2022, p. 129-14... more

Programme Third Biennial Conference of the European Hobbes Society

18th November-20th November 2021 G. Paganini: When Nothing counts. The Annihilation Hypothesis i... more

FACTS, FICTIONS, AND HYPOTHESES: Hume's Scepticism and Newton's Method in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies - Hamburg University, October 27, 2020. Annual Lecture, 2020

The experimental theist Cleanthes and the sceptical Philo in the Dialogues, along with Epicurus i... more The experimental theist Cleanthes and the sceptical Philo in the Dialogues, along with Epicurus in the oration of the First Inquiry, all address the same problem and endorse the same epistemology. Both the method and the argument come from Newton's Principia: the former is derived from the famous regulae philosophandi, while the latter comes from the Scholium generale appended to the third book of the Principia. Both the theologians of the Boyle lectures and Newton himself in the Scholium generale had established a close connection between the use of induction, the rejection of hypotheses, the argument from design or final causes, and the conception of a "living, intelligent, powerful being" that governs the world. It is notable that Newton did not hesitate to include God among the objects of "natural philosophy." The Dialogues represent a challenge to this Newtonian "experimental theism", but they also aim at rehabilitating the function of hypotheses in response to Newton's famous veto, albeit in a new form that is compatible with the scepticism endorsed by the protagonist of the work, Philo. This new reading of the Dialogues centred on Philo's "hypotheticism" sheds more light on the meaning and scope of the work.

Séminaire Descartes: De Port-Royal à Condillac. Philosophie de l'esprit et philosophie du langage, 17-18 janvier 2020 (Paris, ENS)

International Workshop: Séminaire Descartes-University of Sydney Gianni Paganini: Condillac, New... more

Les libertins et l'histoire - ENS Lyon 21 et 22 novembre 2019 Colloque

LIBERTAS PHILOSOPHANDI Fifht Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy, Bologna September 9-11, 2019

The Scottish Enlightenment encounters the French Enlightenment: on Hume's Dialogues

Fundacion Ortega y Gasset (Madrid) - Universidad de Toledo 19 giugno 2019

Pensées secrètes des académiciens : Fontenelle et ses confrères 27-29 29 juin (Institut de France, Mazarine, Sorbonne)

by Gianni Paganini, Antonella Del Prete, McKenna Antony, and Susana Seguin

COLLOQUE « NOUVEAUX REGARDS SUR L'AGE CLASSIQUE : USAGES CONTEMPORAINS ET RELECTURES » organisé par Éric MARQUER et Paul RATEAU - Université Paris 1 - 14-15 juin 2019

by Gianni Paganini and Luc Foisneau

Université Paris 1, 14-15 juin 2019

Hobbes la vie inquiète

Prèsentation du livre de Luc Foisneau: Hobbes. La vie inquiète, Gallimard Table ronde avec Gianni... more

Atelier Montaigne: A partir de Montaigne. La curiosité des anciens et des modernes

Université de Lyon 3, 28 mai 2019

A partir de Montaigne: curiosité et admiration chez les modernes (Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza)

Atelier Montaigne, Université Lyon 3, 28 mai 2019: conférence invitée

Les fondements d'une autre modernité / The foundations of another modernity. Les philosophies alternatives du xvii siècle. Seventeenth century alternative philosophies Colloque international ENS - Collegium de Lyon - May 17-18, 2019

by Gianni Paganini, Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Susana Seguin, Gregorio Baldin, Antonella Del Prete, and P. Girard

The dominant historiography presents the philosophy of the Seventeenth Century as a giant battle ... more The dominant historiography presents the philosophy of the Seventeenth Century as a giant battle opposing two clans: one the one hand, the "Cartesian" and "rationalist" metaphysicians, one the other, those who see metaphysics as an extension of physics and defend an empiricist or materialist conception of the human mind. The obsoleteness of the oppositions, largely inherited from Descartes himself, are at the heart of the research agenda in the history of modern philosophy. For there are philosophers who are at the same time anti-Cartesian and anti-Aristotelian (Gassendi and Hobbes); empiricist Cartesians (Regius, Desgabets, Regis); anti-Cartesians who are Platonists (More, Cudworth); or, again, anti-Cartesians opening up to the historical and social dimensions (Vico). And then there are clandestine writers who situate themselves at the margins of the great philosophical systems, rejecting the spirit of systems itself (Fontenelle); and also women philosophers who take a polemical stance in relation to the dominant patriarchialism. Focusing on these alternative philosophies, this workshop questions the customary way of understanding the roots of our modernity.

D'Holbach and the "Spirit of Judaism"

International Conference: The Great Protector of Wits. D'Holbach, 1789-2019 Lichtenberg-Kolleg, G... more

A partir de Montaigne: curiosité et admiration chez les modernes

Atelier Montaigne Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 28 mai 2019

The Cosmopolitan Identity of an Enlightenment Philosopher: David Hume

by Gianni Paganini, Laura Nicolì, Dario Perinetti, Ryu Susato, and Emilio Mazza

Double panel proposed at the ISECS Congress: Edinburgh, 14-19 July, 2019

2018 Colloque Philon.pdf

by Antonella Del Prete, Frédéric GABRIEL, Lucia Maddalena Tissi, Gianni Paganini, Jérémy Delmulle, Katell Berthelot, Jean-Louis Quantin, and Francesca Calabi

Ce colloque international, réunissant des universitaires et des chercheur(e)s européens, américai... more Ce colloque international, réunissant des universitaires et des chercheur(e)s européens, américains et australiens, est consacré à la réception de l'oeuvre de Philon d'Alexandrie à l'époque moderne, étape essentielle, et pourtant très peu étudiée, dans une longue chaîne qui se déploie de l'époque patristique jusqu'au nouvel essor des études philoniennes des cinquante dernières années. Deux axes de recherche ont été choisis : 1) une première approche concerne la philologie et l'histoire du livre ; 2) une seconde souhaite préciser les usages diversifiés de Philon dans les commentaires exégétiques, les traités théologiques, l'érudition historique, et plus largement les controverses. 1) Avec l'édition princeps des oeuvres de Philon par Adrien Turnèbe en 1552, à Paris, la réception de Philon prend un nouveau souffle à l'ère de l'imprimé et bon nombre de traductions, en latin et en langues vernaculaires voient le jour. Nous mettrons en perspective ces éditions de Philon avec les contextes sociaux des réseaux d'imprimeurs, d'érudits et de patronages prestigieux. 2) Au-delà de la transmission textuelle, quel visage de l'auteur retient-on, quelles sont les facettes de l'oeuvre philonienne qui sont utilisées ? Comment sont-elles mises à contribution et transformées par les débats en cours ? De quelle manière les lectures, directes ou indirectes, de Philon suscitent-elles l'intérêt et des polémiques entre les différents courants philosophiques et religieux aux xvi e-xviii e siècles ? De nombreux sujets intègrent l'apport philonien : plato-nismes de la Renaissance, histoire du monachisme primitif, préfiguration vétérotestamentaire de la Trinité, socinianisme, etc. On s'interrogera égale-ment sur les enjeux de sa « redécouverte » par le judaïsme au xvi e siècle et sur les conséquences de cette redécouverte pour l'histoire philosophique du judaïsme. La tenue à Lyon de ce colloque n'est pas le fait du hasard, l'ancrage lyonnais des études philoniennes étant bien connu dans le monde académique. Le premier colloque sur Philon s'est déroulé en septembre 1966 dans cette ville où se trouve l'Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, au sein duquel ont été éditées ses oeuvres complètes en trente-six volumes de 1961 à 1992.

Epicureanism Workshop 2018 description & programme-1.docx

Workshop Modern Receptions of Epicureanism Political Receptions and the Politics of Reception 4 M... more

WOMEN AND EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE - International Workshop - Vercelli, May 11-12, 2017

Women and Early Modern Philosophy & Science - International Workshop - Vercelli, May 11-12, 2017

International conference: "La curiosità e le passioni della conoscenza" (da Montaigne a Hobbes) Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, Ottobre 7-8, 2015

The Return of Scepticism. From Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle. Proceedings of the Vercelli Conference, May 18th-20th, 2000, ed. by Gianni Paganini, “International Archives of the History of Ideas”, 184, Kluwer, Dordrecht-Boston-London 2003, pp. xix-486SCAN

Curiosity and the Passions of Knowledge from Montaigne to Hobbes, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Centro di ricerca “B. Segre” dell’Accademia dei Lincei, ed. by Gianni Paganini, Bardi Edizioni, Roma, 2018, pp. 400

VOLTAIRE Corriere della Sera, Milano 2017, p. 216

La divulgazione fa bene alla filosofia

HUME Corriere della Sera, Milano 2017, p. 216

La divulgazione fa bene alla filosofia!

LOCKE Corriere della Sera, Milano 2017, p. 216

LA DIVULGAZIONE FA BENE ALLA FILOSOFIA

HOBBES Corriere della Sera, Milano 2017, p. 208

Utile anche divulgare la filosofia: questa serie di "Filosofi" distribuita con il Corriere della ... more

MONTAIGNE Corriere della Sera, Milano 2017, p. 206

Utile anche divulgare la filosofia: questa serie di "Filosofi" distribuita con il Corriere della ... more

ERASMO Corriere della Sera, Milano, 2017, p. 206

Utile anche divulgare la filosofia: questa serie di "Filosofi" distribuita con il Corriere della ... more

Scepticisme et pensée morale. De Montaigne à Cavell, Paris, Hermann, 2017

by Gianni Paganini, Jean-Charles Darmon, and Philippe Desan

Philosophie et libre pensée / Philosophy and Free-Thought 17th-18th century, ed. by L. Bianchi, N. Gengoux, G. Paganini, Paris, Champion, 2017, p. 580

ÉDITIONS HONORÉ CHAMPION

A l’origine de ce recueil un double colloque international, l’un à Lyon, l’autre à Naples, a réun... more A l’origine de ce recueil un double colloque international, l’un à Lyon, l’autre à Naples, a réuni des spécialistes de philosophes du XVIIe siècle et du XVIIIe siècle pour traiter de l’apport des courants dits « libertins » et, plus largement, de la libre pensée, à ceux qu’une historiographie traditionnelle, mais encore vivace, reconnaît comme seuls « philosophes » : Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Pascal, Bayle, Leibniz, Kant... Il s’agit donc, d’une part, de reconnaître l’apport de la libre pensée à l’évolution des idées et, d’autre part, de mettre les grands penseurs en dialogue avec le contexte historique qui fut le leur.
L’ensemble des interventions met remarquablement en évidence l’importance des arguments de la pensée critique et de la libre pensée à l’âge classique, qu’ils soient acceptés, refusés ou réutilisés, tout en montrant la complexité d’une époque où, malgré la censure régnante, les idées progressent à travers et grâce à un dialogue constant, qu’il soit paisible ou conflictuel, entre les penseurs plus ou moins religieux.

Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy, ed. By Cecilia Muratori and Gianni Paganini, “International Archives of the History of Ideas”, 220, Springer, 2016, p. 298

by Gianni Paganini and Emanuela Scribano

Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy

by Gianni Paganini, Cecilia Muratori, Sarah Hutton, Emmanuel Faye, and Emanuela Scribano

When does Renaissance philosophy end, and Early Modern philosophy begin? Do Renaissance philosoph... more When does Renaissance philosophy end, and Early Modern philosophy begin? Do Renaissance philosophers have something in common, which distinguishes them from Early Modern philosophers? And ultimately, what defines the modernity of the Early Modern period, and what role did the Renaissance play in shaping it? The answers to these questions are not just chronological. This book challenges traditional constructions of these periods, which partly reflect the prejudice that the Renaissance was a literary and artistic phenomenon, rather than a philosophical phase.
The essays in this book investigate how the legacy of Renaissance philosophers persisted in the following centuries through the direct encounters of subsequent generations with Renaissance philosophical texts. This volume treats Early Modern philosophers as joining their predecessors as ‘conversation partners’: the ‘conversations’ in this book
feature, among others, Girolamo Cardano and Henry More, Thomas Hobbes and Lorenzo Valla, Bernardino Telesio and Francis Bacon, René Descartes and Tommaso Campanella, Giulio Cesare Vanini and the anonymous Theophrastus redivivus.

Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - Bilingual Edn Milan, Rizzoli, 2013, p. 432

Analisi della fede e critica della ragione nella filosofia di Pierre Bayle Gianni Paganini (Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1980). L. 18,000

History of European Ideas, 1983

Der Garten und die Moderne. Epikureische Moral und Politik vom Humanismus bis zur Aufklärung Gianni Paganini et Edoardo Tortarolo, dir. Collection «Problemata» Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Frommann-Holzboog, 2004, 410 p

Dialogue-canadian Philosophical Review, 2005

• Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ed. by John Christian Laursen and Gianni Paganini, University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th cent. Studies and the William Clark Memorial Library, Toronto, 2015, p. 294

• Voltaire, Milano, Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera, 2014, pp. 166

• Hume, Milano, Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera, 2014, pp. 166

• Locke, Milano, Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera, 2014, pp. 166

Leibniz-Hobbes Conference Milan.pdf

Conference Announcement Milan, October 18-19, 2017

Skepticism (15th-17th centuries) - Oxford Bibliography On Line (OBO)

by Gianni Paganini and William Hamlin

Bibliographical survey of books and articles concerned with epistemological skepticism in Renaiss... more Bibliographical survey of books and articles concerned with epistemological skepticism in Renaissance Europe (15th -- 17th centuries). Includes references to primary texts in early modern editions and translations as well as to scholarly studies published throughout the 20th century and up to the present. Will be updated periodically at Oxford Bibliographies Online

by William Hamlin and Gianni Paganini

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Bibliographical survey of books and articles concerned with epistemological skepticism in Renaiss... more Bibliographical survey of books and articles concerned with epistemological skepticism in Renaissance Europe (15th -- 17th centuries). Includes references to primary texts in early modern editions and translations as well as to scholarly studies published throughout the 20th century and up to the present. Will be updated periodically at Oxford Bibliographies Online.

ESEMP Congress European Society for Early Modern Philosophy

Copenhagen, 14-16 September 2022