Reading Groups

Cavendish reading group

The Cavendish RG is on indefinite hiatus.

Cavendish Circle reading group 

Digby, second Treatise, ch. 11, 25 March, 3 pm CET

Pasnau RG

The Pasnau RG concluded in November 2023.

Previous meetings of the Cavendish reading group

PF, "Untitled [I know those that are strict]" as far as "Untitled [Final Note to the Reader]," 16 February, 6:30 pm CET
PF, "The Animal Parliament" (cont.), 9 February, 6:30 pm CET
PF, "The Animal Parliament" (cont.), 2 February, 6:30 pm CET
PF, "The Animal Parliament," 26 January, 6:30 pm CET
PF, "Upon the Funeral of my Dear Brother, Killed in these Unhappy Wars" - "Of the Death and Burial of Truth," 22 January, 8 pm CET
PF, "On a Mother, that Died for Grief of the Death of her Only Daughter" - "The Funeral of Calamity," 8 December, 7 pm CET
PF, "On a Melting Beauty" - "An Elegy on a Widow," 1 December, 7 pm CET
PF, "A Register of Mournful Verses" overview, 24 November, 7 pm CET
PF, "A Battle between Life and Death" and "Of a Traveling Thought," plus (optionally) Herrick's Oberon poems, 17 November, 7 pm CET
PF,  "A Battle between King Oberon and the Pygmies" and "The Temple of Fortune," 24 October, 9 pm CEST
PF,  "A Battle between Honor and Dishonor," 17 October, 9 pm CEST
PF, "A Battle between Courage and Prudence" (cont.) - "A Description of the Battle in Fight" 10 October, 9 pm CEST
PF, "The Fort or Castle of Hope" (cont.) - "A Battle between Courage and Prudence," 3 October, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Similizing the Body to Many Countries" (cont.) - "The Fort or Castle of Hope," 26 September, 9 pm CEST
PF, "The War of the Animal Spirits" - "Similizing the Body to Many Countries," 19 September, 9 pm CEST
PF, "The Fairies in the Brain May Be the Causes of Many Thoughts" - "Of the Animal Spirits," 12 September, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Of Fairies in the Brain" - "The City of These Fairies Is the Brain," 5 September, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Of a Garden" (cont.) as far as "A Man to his Mistress," 29 August, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Of the Witches in Lapland that Make Winds" (cont.) - "Of a Garden," 22 August, 9 pm CEST
PF, "The Pastime of the Queen of Fairies, when She Comes upon the Earth out of the Center" (cont.) as far as "Of the Witches in Lapland that Make Winds," 7 August, 8 pm CEST
PF, "The Fairy Queen's Kingdom" as far as "The Pastime of the Queen of Fairies, when She Comes upon the Earth out of the Center," 31 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, "The Temple of Fame" - "Fame’s Library within the Temple," 24 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, "The House of Shame, wherein Dishonor Lives" - "Fame," 17 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, "The Allegory of Shepherds Is too Mean for Noble Persons" (cont.), 10 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Upon the Theme of Love" - "The Allegory of Shepherds Is too Mean for Noble Persons," 3 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, "To all Writing Ladies" - "To the Reader, Concerning Fairies," 26 June, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Masquer Dressed by Vanity" - "Honor’s Epilogue," 19 June, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Lady Dressed by Youth" - "To the Temple," 12 June, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Another Voyage of the Same Ship" - "A Soldier Armed by Mars," 5 June, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Phantasm's Masque" - "The Voyage of a Ship, under which the Fortune of a Young Lady is Expressed," 22 May, 8 pm CEST
PF, "The Mine of Wit" - "The Conclusion of this Part," 15 May, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Poets Have Most Pleasure in this Life" (cont.) - "The Head of Man Compared to a Church," 8 May, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Comparison between Gold and the Sun" - "Poets Have Most Pleasure in this Life," 5 May, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Of the Spider," 28 April, 8 pm CEST
PF, "The Prey of Thoughts" - "Similizing Fancy to a Gnat," 21 April, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Similizing the Head of Man to a Hive of Bees," 14 April, 8 pm CEST
PF,  "Similizing the Sea to Meadows and Pastures, the Mariners to Shepherds, the Mast to a Maypole, the Fish to Beasts" (cont.) - "Similizing the Head of Man to the World," 7 April, 8 pm CEST
PF,  "The Actions of the Mind Similized" - "Similizing the Sea to Meadows and Pastures, the Mariners to Shepherds, the Mast to a Maypole, the Fish to Beasts," 31 March, 8 pm CEsT
PF, "A Landscape" (cont.) - "Similizing Thoughts," 24 March, 8 pm CET
PF,  "A Prospect of a Church in the Mind" (cont.) - "A Landscape," 17 March, 8 pm CET
PF,  "Similizing the Mind" - "A Prospect of a Church in the Mind," 3 March, 8 pm CET
PF,  "Nature’s Market" (cont.) - "Similizing Birds to a Ship," 24 February, 8 pm CET
PF,  "Of a Picture Hung in Nature's House" (cont.) - "Nature’s Market," 17 February, 8 pm CET
PF,  "Similizing the Winds to Music" - "Of a Picture Hung in Nature's House," 10 February, 8 pm CET
PF,  "Similizing the Brain to a Garden" (cont.) - "Similizing the Heart...," 3 February, 8 pm CET
PF,  "Comparing the Tongue to a Wheel" - "Similizing the Brain to a Garden," 27 January, 8 pm CET
PF,  "Nature's Wardrobe" (cont.) as far as "Natures Grange," 20 January, 8 pm CET
PF, "Comparing of Wits to Wines" - "Nature's Wardrobe," 18 December, 9 pm CET
PF, "Nature's Officers" (cont.) - "Comparing the Head to a Barrel of Wine," 11 December, 9 pm CET
PF, "Nature's Dessert" (cont.) - "Nature's Officers," 4 December, 9 pm CET
PF, "A Tart" (cont.) - "Nature's Dessert," 27 November, 9 pm CET
PF, "A Heart Dressed" - "A Tart," 20 November, 9 pm CET
PF, "An Olio Dressed for Nature’s Dinner" (cont.) - "A Hodge-Podge for Nature’s Table," 6 November, 9 pm CET
PF, "A Posset for Nature’s Breakfast" - "An Olio Dressed for Nature’s Dinner," 30 October, 9 pm CET
PF, "Nature's Cook" and "Nature's Oven," 23 October, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Nature's Dress" (cont.), 16 October, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Nature's Cabinet" (cont.) - "Nature's Dress," 9 October, 9 pm CEST
PF, "The Several Keys of Nature, which Unlock the Several Boxes of her Cabinet" (cont.)" - "Nature's Cabinet," 2 October, 9 pm CEST
PF, "The Several Keys of Nature, which Unlock the Several Boxes of her Cabinet" (cont.), 25 September, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Upon the same Subject" as far as "The Several Keys of Nature, which Unlock the Several Boxes of her Cabinet," 14 September, 9 pm CEST
PF, "To the Reader" - "Of Poets and their Theft," 31 August, 9 pm CEST
PF, "To Poets" (cont.), 24 August, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Clasp II-III" recap and "To Poets" (cont.), 17 August, 9 pm CEST
PF, "Of an Island" - "To Poets," 29 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, Beginning of "Clasp II-III" - "The Hunting of the Stag," 22 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Discourse of a Knave" - "A Discourse of the Power of Devils," 15 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Of Fishes" - "Earth's Complaint," 1 July, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Moral Discourse of Man and Beast" (cont.) - "Of the Knowledge of Beasts," 24 June, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Of the Shortness of Man’s Life and his Foolish Ambition" - "A Moral Discourse of Man and Beast," 17 June, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Of Tranquillity" and a joint reading group project presentation by Brooke Sharp, 3 June, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Of Humility" - "Poverty," 27 May, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Discourse of Man’s Pride, or Seeming Prerogative" - "Of Foolish Ambition," 20 May, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Discourse of Love, the Parent of Passions" - "A Discourse of Love Neglected, Burnt up with Grief," 13 May, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Dialogue betwixt Riches and Poverty" - "A Dialogue betwixt Peace and War," 6 May, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Dialogue between Love and Hate" - "A Dialogue betwixt Learning and Ignorance," 29 April, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Dialogue betwixt Wit and Beauty," 22 April, 8 pm CEST
Dodds, The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish, ch. 3, 15 April, 8 pm CEST, with special guest Professor Lara Dodds
Dodds, The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish, ch. 2, 8 April, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Dialogue between Melancholy and Mirth" - "A Dialogue betwixt Joy and Discretion," 1 April, 8 pm CEST
PF, "A Dialogue between an Oak and a Man Cutting Him Down" - "A Dialogue of Birds," 18 March, 8 pm CET
PF, "A Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind" - "A Dialogue betwixt Earth, and Darkness," 11 March, 8 pm CET
PF, "A Dialogue betwixt Man and Nature" - "A Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind," 28 February, 4 pm CET
PF, "The Purchase of Poets, or, a Dialogue betwixt the Poets and Fame, and Homer’s Marriage," 21 February, 4 pm CET
PF, "Of Fame: A Dialogue between Two Supernatural Opinions" - "A Simple Natural Opinion of the Mind," 14 February, 4 pm CET
PF, "Of Moral Philosophy and Moralists," 4 February, 7 pm CET
PF, "The Trisection" cont. - "The Arithmetic of Passions," 31 January, 4 pm CET
PF, "The Circle of Honesty Squared" - "The Trisection," 21 January, 8 pm CET
PF, "When I did write this book I took great pains" - "Another to the Same Purpose," 14 January, 8 pm CET
PF, "Several Worlds in Several Circles" and NP (1656), pp. 157-159, 17 December, 7 pm CET
PF, "Of Many Worlds in this World" - "A World in an Earring," 3 December, 7 pm CET
PF, "It Is Hard to Believe that there Are Other Worlds in this World," 26 November, 7 pm CET
PF, "Of the Motion of the Blood" - "The Traffic betwixt the Sun and the Earth," 19 November, 7 pm CET
PF, "The Reason Why the Thoughts Are Only in the Head," 12 November, 7 pm CET
PF, "The Motion of Thoughts" (cont.), 5 November, 7 pm CET
PF, "According as the Notes in Music Agree with the Motions of the Heart or Brain, Such Passions Are Produced Thereby" - "The Motion of Thoughts," 30 October, 2 pm CEST
PF, "Of Shadow and Echo" - "The Objects of Every Sense Are According to their Motions in the Brain," 24 October, 7 pm CEST
PF, "What Makes Echo" - "Of the Sound and Echo," 15 October, 4 pm CEST
PF, "Of Stars" - "The Sun is Nurse to All the Earth Bears," 8 October, 7 pm CEST
PF, "Wind Is Made in the Air, Not in the Earth" - "Of Cold Winds," 23 September, 8 pm CEST
PF, "What is Liquid" - "The Temper of the Earth," 16 September, 8 pm CEST
PF, "Of the Elements" - "Flame Compared to the Tide of the Sea," 9 September, 8 pm CEST

PF, "The Infinites of Matter" - "A World Made by Four Kinds of Atoms," 2 September, 8 pm CEST

PF, "Of the Center of the World" - "If Infinite Worlds, There Must Be Infinite Centers," 26 August, 8 pm CEST

PF, "The Reason Water Quenches Fire" - "The Agility of Water," 19 August, 8 pm CEST

PF, "The Power of Fire" - "Of Burning, Why It Causes Pain", 10 August, 4 pm CEST

PF, "Of a Spark of Fire" - "The Increasing and Decreasing of Visible Fire", 6 August, 8 pm CEST

PF, "Of Quenching out of Fire" - "The Quenching out and Smothering of Heat and Light Doth Not Change the Property nor Shape of Sharp Atoms," 23 July, 4 pm CEST

PF, "Of Vapor" - "Of the Attraction of the Poles, and of Frost," 16 July, 4 pm CEST

PF, "Of Contracting and Dilating, Whereby Vacuum Must Needs Follow" - "What Atoms the Sun is Made of," 9 July, 5:30 pm CEST

PF, "Motion Makes Atoms a Bawd for Figure" - "Vacuum in Atoms," 2 July, 4 pm CEST

PF, "What Atoms Make a Palsy or Apoplexy" - "The Difference of Atoms and Motion in Youth and Age," 25 June, 4 pm CEST

PF, "What Atoms Make Change" - "What...Colic," 18 June, 4 pm CEST

PF, "The Poetress’s Hasty Resolution" - "The Joining...," 11 June, 4 pm CEST

PL, p.536-end + PF, prefatory material, 4 June, 4 pm CEST

PL, 4.31-4.33, 28 May, 4 pm CEST

PL, 4.28-4.30, 14 May, 4 pm CEST

PL, 4.21-4.27, 7 May, 4 pm CET

PL, 4.14-4.20, 30 April, 5 pm CET

PL, 4.10-4.13, 16 April, 3 pm CET

PL, 4.4-4.9, 9 April, 3 pm CET

PL, 4.2-4.3, 26 March, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.42-4.1, 19 March, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.38-3.41, 12 March, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.33-3.37, 5 March, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.30-3.32, 26 February, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.23-3.29, 19 February, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.21-3.22, 12 February, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.16-3.20, 5 February, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.11-3.15, 29 January, 3 pm CET

PL, 3.6-3.10, 22 January, 3 pm CET

PL, part 2 wrap-up and 3.1-3.5, 15 January, 3 pm CET

PL, 2.28-2.34, 22 December, 9 pm CET

PL, 2.21 to 2.27, 15 December, 9 pm CET

PL, 2.14 to 2.20, 8 December, 9 pm CET

PL, 2.10 to 2.13, 24 November, 9 pm CET

PL, 2.6 to 2.9, 17 November, 9 pm CET

PL, 1.45 to 2.5, 10 November, 9:30 pm CET 

PL, 1.37 to 1.44, 3 November, 9:30 pm CET

PL, 1.33 through 1.36, 27 October, 9:30 pm CET

PL, 1.24 through 1.32, 20 October, 9:30 pm CEST

PL, 1.18 through 1.23, 13 October, 9:30 pm CEST

PL, 1.13 through 1.17, 6 October, 9:30 pm CEST

PL, 1.9 through 1.12, 29 September, 9:30 pm CEST

PL, 1.3 through 1.8, 22 September, 9:30 pm CEST

PL, beginning through 1.3, 15 September, 9:30 pm CEST

GNP Appendix Part 2.4 - end, 8 September, 9:30 pm CEST 

Previous meetings of the Cavendish Circle reading group

Digby, second Treatise, ch. 10, 18 March, 3 pm CET
Digby, second Treatise, ch. 9, 11 March, 3 pm CET
Digby, second Treatise, ch. 8, 29 February, 3 pm CET
Digby, second Treatise, chs. 6 and 7, 19 February, 3 pm CET
Digby, second Treatise, ch. 5.5 - 5.11, 12 February, 3 pm CET
Digby, second Treatise, ch. 4 - ch 5.4, 5 February, 3 pm CET
Digby, second Treatise, ch. 3, 29 January, 3 pm CET
Digby, second Treatise, 1.10 - ch. 2, 22 January, 3 pm CET
Digby, second Treatise, 1.1-1.9, 11 December, 3 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, second Treatise Preface, 27 November, 3:30 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 38.6 - end of first Treatise, 21 June, 1 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, chs. 37-38.5, 16 June, 1 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, chs. 35 and 36, 6 June, 1 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, chs. 33.5-34, 31 May, 1 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, chs. 32.6-33.4, 24 May, 1:45 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, chs. 32.1-32.5, 17 May, 1:45 pm CEST`
Digby, Two Treatises, chs. 30 and 31, 10 May, 1:45 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, chs. 28 and 29, 3 May, 1:45 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 27, 26 April, 1:45 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 26, 19 April, 1:45 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 24.6-25, 12 April, 1:45 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 24.1-24.5, 5 April, 1:45 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 23, 29 March, 1:45 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 22, 22 March, 1:45 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 21, 15 March, 1:45 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 20, 3 March, 2:00 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 19, 22 February, 2:00 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 18, 15 February, 1:45 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 17, 8 February, 1:45 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 15.8 - ch. 16, 1 February, 1:45 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 14.16 - ch. 15.7, 25 January, 1:45 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 14.1-14.15, 18 January, 2 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 13, 19 December, 2 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 12 and Pécharman, "Kenelm Digby on Quantity as Divisibility," 16 December, 2 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 11, 5 December, 2 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 10, 2 December, 2 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 9.6-9.12 and Adriaenssen, "Digby on Accidents," 25 November, 2 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 9.1-9.6, 9 November, 3:30 pm CET
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 8, 24 October, 2 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 7, 21 October, 2 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 5.6-6, 7 October, 2 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 4.5-5.5, 30 September, 2 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 3.8-4.4, 9 September, 2 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 3.1-3.7, 2 September, 2 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 2 and Georgescu,  "Bodies and Their Potential Parts: The Not-So-Friendly Reception of Digbean Quantity," 26 August, 2 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, ch. 1, 19 August, 2 pm CEST
Digby, Two Treatises, front matter, 10 August, 8 pm CEST
Hobbes, Decameron Physiologicum, ch. 10, 5 August, 8 pm CEST
Hobbes, Decameron Physiologicum, chs. 8-9 and Georgescu, "Rotating Poles, Shifting Angles and the Use of Geometry (Bond’s Longitude Found and Hobbes’ confutation)," 29 July, 2 pm CEST, with special guest Dr. Laura Georgescu
Hobbes, Decameron Physiologicum, chs. 7-8, 7 July, 6 pm CEST
Hobbes, Decameron Physiologicum, chs. 2-6, 22 June, 1 pm CEST
Hobbes, Seven Philosophical Problems, ch. 8, 3 June, 1 pm CEST
Hobbes, Seven Philosophical Problems, ch. 7, 23 May, 2 pm CEST
De Corpore, ch. 30, 16 May, 2 pm CEST
De Corpore, ch. 29, 9 May, 2 pm CEST
Hobbes, Seven Philosophical Problems, chs. 5-6, 2 May, 2 pm CEST
De Corpore, ch. 28.8-18, 25 April, 2 pm CEST
De Corpore, ch. 27.14-28.7, 19 April, 12 pm CEST
De Corpore, ch. 27.5-13, 6 April, 1 pm CEST
Yael Kedar, "Plotinus’s conception of unity and multiplicity as the root to the medieval distinction between lux and lumen" and Yael Kedar and Giora Hon, "'Natures' and 'Laws': The making of the concept of law of nature - Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168 - 1253) and Roger Bacon (1214/1220 - 1292)," 28 March, 3 pm CEST, with special guest Dr. Yael Kedar
De Corpore, ch. 27.1-4 and  Seven Philosophical Problems, ch. 4, 18 March, 12 pm CET
De Corpore, ch. 26.9-11,  Seven Philosophical Problems, ch. 2, and Baldin, Hobbes and Galileo, ch. 2, §5, 9 March, 12 pm CET
De Corpore, ch. 26.5-8, 23 February, 12 pm CET
Decameron Physiologicum, ch. 1, and Pasnau, ch. 7, 16 February, 12 pm CET
De Corpore, ch. 26.1-4,  Seven Philosophical Problems, ch. 3, and Pasnau, ch. 6, 9 February, 12 pm CET
De Corpore, ch. 25.9-13 and Pasnau, ch. 5, 2 February, 12 pm CET
De Corpore, ch. 25.3-8 and Pasnau, ch. 4, 26 January, 12 pm CET
De Corpore, ch. 25.1-2; Pasnau, ch. 3; and Seven Philosophical Problems, chs. 1-2, 19 January, 12 pm CET
De Corpore, ch. 24.2-9; Pasnau, chs. 1 & 2; and Seven Philosophical Problems, front matter, 20 December, 1 pm CET
De Corpore, Ch. 24.1 and Dong, "Hobbes’s model of refraction and derivation of the sine law," 13 December, 1 pm CET
De Corpore, Ch. 23.9-14 and Jacquot, "Sir Charles Cavendish and his learned friends" I & II, 6 December, 1 pm CET
De Corpore, Ch. 23.1-8 and Hervey, "Hobbes and Descartes in the Light of Some Unpublished Letters of the Correspondence between Sir Charles Cavendish and Dr. John Pell," 29 November, 1 pm CET
Ps.-Hobbes, "A Short Tract on First Principles," 2.8-end and Raylor, "Hobbes, Payne, and A Short Tract on First Principles," 22 November, 1 pm CET
Ps.-Hobbes, "A Short Tract on First Principles," beginning-2.8 and Kargon, "Hobbes and the Mechanical Philosophy," 17 November, 1 pm CET
De Corpore, Ch. 22.13-20 and Adams, "Motion as an Accident of Matter: Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes on Motion and Rest," 8 November, 1 pm CET
De Corpore, Ch. 22.9-12 and Noel Malcolm, "Hobbes and Roberval," 29 October, 2 pm CEST
De Corpore, Ch. 22.1-8 and John Henry, "Hobbes, Galileo, and the Physics of Simple Circular Motions," 19 October, 4 pm CEST
De Corpore, Ch. 21, 8 October, 3 pm CEST
Westfall, Force in Newton's Physics, ch. 3 and Maarten Van Dyck, "Mechanical Philosophy: Science of Mechanics," 29 September, 8 pm CEST (with special guest Professor Maarten Van Dyck)
De Corpore, Ch. 20 and Jesseph, Squaring the Circle, Appendix A.3-A.4, 14 September, 8 pm CEST (with special guest Professor Douglas Jesseph)
De Corpore, Ch. 19 and Clucas and Raylor, "Progress report on the Clarendon Edition of “De corpore” and Related Manuscripts," 7 September, 8 pm CEST (with special guest Professor Douglas Jesseph)

De Corpore, Ch. 18, 31 August, 8 pm CEST (with special guest Professor Douglas Jesseph)

De Corpore, Ch. 17, 24 August, 8 pm CEST

De Corpore, Ch. 16.8-16.19; Westfall, Force in Newton's Physics, pp. 109-114; and Jesseph, "Hobbes on the Ratios of Motions and Magnitudes: The Central Task of De Corpore, Part III," 17 August, 8 pm CEST

De Corpore, Ch. 16.1-16.7, 11 August, 8 pm CEST

De Corpore, Ch. 15.2-15.8, 5 August, 2 pm CEST

De Corpore, Ch. 15.1 and Biener, "Hobbes on the Order of the Sciences: A Partial Defense of the Mathematization Thesis," 23 July, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 14.2-21 and Euclid's Elements, Book I, 16 July, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 14.1; Euclid's Elements, Book VI; and Bird, "Squaring the Circle: Hobbes on Philosophy and Geometry," 9 July, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 13; Euclid's Elements, Book V; and Pycior, "Mathematics and Philosophy: Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow, and Berkeley," 2 July, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 13.16-14.19, 25 June, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 12.6-13.15, 18 June, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 10.6-12.5, 11 June, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 8.19-10.5, 4 June, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 8.3-8.18, 28 May, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 7.4-8.2, 14 May, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 6.10-7.3, 7 May, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 5.10-6.10, 30 April, 1 pm CET

De Corpore, Ch. 4.7-5, 16 April, noon CET

De Corpore, Ch. 3.3-4.7, 9 April, noon CET

De Corpore, Ch. 2.11-3.2, 26 March, 10 am CET

De Corpore, Ch. 1.7-2.10, 19 March, 10 am CET

Hobbes, De Corpore, front matter + Ch. 1, 12 March, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 3, articles 199-212, 3 March, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 3, articles 170-198, 24 February, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 3, articles 149-169 + Lisa Shapiro, "Cartesian Generosity," 17 February, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 2, articles 137-148 + ch. 2 of D. Brown, Descartes and the Passionate Mind, 10 Feb, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 2, articles 112-136 + Amy Schmitter, "'I've got a Little List': Classification, Explanation, and the Focal Passions in Descartes and Hobbes," 3 February, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 2, articles 80-111, 27 January, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 2, articles 51-79, 22 January, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 1, articles 26-50, 11 January, 10 am CET

Descartes, Passions 1, articles 1-25, 7 January, 10 am CET

Cordemoy, Treatises on Metaphysics, 11 December, 3 pm CET

Cordemoy, fifth and sixth discourses, 4 December, 3 pm CET

Wrap-up discussion of Charleton's Physiologia, 27 November, 3 pm CET

Cordemoy, third and fourth discourses, 20 November, 3 pm CET

Cordemoy, first two discourses, 13 November, 3 pm CET

Charleton, 4.2.3 to end of book, 6 November, 3 pm CET

Charleton, 4.2.2, 30 October, 3 pm CET

Charleton, 4.2.1, 23 October, 3 pm CEST

Charleton, 4.1, 16 October, 3 pm CEST

Charleton, 3.16.2, 25 September, 2 pm CEST

Charleton, 3.16.1 + Liam Semler, "The Magnetic Attraction of Margaret Cavendish and Walter Charleton", 18 September, 11 am CEST (with special guest Professor Liam Semler)

Previous meetings of the Pasnau RG

Q&A session, with special guest Robert Pasnau, 20 November, 4 pm CET
Q&A planning session, 13 November, 1 pm CET
Ch. 30, 10 July, 1 pm CEST
Ch. 29, 26 June, 1 pm CEST
Ch. 28, 19 June, 1 pm CEST
Ch. 27, 5 June, 2 pm CEST
Ch. 26.5-26.6, 22 May, 2 pm CEST
Ch. 26.1-26.4, 15 May, 2 pm CEST
Ch. 25.5-25.6, 8 May, 2 pm CEST
Ch. 25.1-25.5, 24 April, 2 pm CEST
Ch. 24, 17 April, 2 pm CEST
Ch. 23, 3 April, 2 pm CEST
Ch. 22, 27 March, 2 pm CEST
Ch. 21, 20 March, 2 pm CET
Ch. 20, 13 March, 2 pm CET
Ch. 19, 6 March, 2 pm CET
Ch. 18, 27 February, 2 pm CET
Ch. 17, 20 February, 2 pm CET
Ch. 16, 13 February, 2 pm CET
Ch. 15, 6 February, 2 pm CET
Ch. 14, 30 January, 2 pm CET
Ch. 13, 27 January, 3 pm CET
Ch. 12, 20 May, 3 pm CEST
Ch. 11, 13 May, 3 pm CEST
Ch. 10, 6 May, 3 pm CEST
Ch. 9, 29 April, 3 pm CEST
Ch. 8, 4 April, 1 pm CEST
(Earlier chapters read as part of the Cavendish Circle reading group.)