Letter from the Editor

Minutes from the Istanbul ISIH meeting
Call for papers for Helsinki
Announcement of Society Research Project
Report on the Istanbul conference
Constitution.

Part I: Articles

I. Intellectual Biography, Present and Past
Cees Leijenhorst Interview with Charles Lohr
Sylvie Taussig Epicurus Redivius By Pierre Gassendi: Biography Opposed to the Love of
Self

II. Thinking about modernity
Editors: Warren Breckman and Steven Lestition
Jacqueline Broad English Women Philosophers and the Origins of Modernity
Saheed A. Adejumobi African Intellectual History: Contradictions in the African Encounter with
Modernity
Catherine Lynch The Uses of “Modernity” in Contemporary Chinese Intellectual History
Conversations In Shanghai

III Thinking about modernity – in satire and economics
Serguei Zenkine The "resistance to theory" and modern hermeneutic quarrels:
Bruce Elmslie and Norman Sedgley The Reswitching Debate: Whence it Came and
Where it Went

IV Libertinage – a new definition for Intellectual History
Jean-Pierre Cavaillé Libertinage, irréligion, incroyance, athéisme dans l’Europe de la
première modernité (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) Une approche critique des tendances actuelles de la recherche

V A critical review of some different databases
Matthjis Van Otegem The Use Of Digitised Databases For Bibliographical Research into
Rare Books (1450-1800)

1. Announcement of a new and major pan European research project in natural
philosophy and early modern science.– Cees Leijenhorst

2. Book announcements
Peter R. Anstey. The Philosophy of Robert Boyle
Roger Ariew Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy.
Philip Beeley The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703)
Paul Richard Blum. Philosophieren in der Renaissance
Jacqueline Broad Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century
Ursula Kundert. Konfliktverläufe. Normen der Geschlechterbeziehungen in Texten des 17.Jahrhunderts
Gianni Paganini. The Return of Scepticism From Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle
Odile Felgine et Claude Pierre Pérez Paul Eluard, Jean Paulhan: Correspondance, 1919-
1944
Paul Schuurman Ideas, Mental Faculties and Method. The Logic of Ideas of Descartes
and Locke and Its Reception in the Dutch Republic, 1630-1750
Catherine Secretan Ernst H. Kossmann, Théorie politique et histoire
Beverley Southgate Postmodernism in History: Fear or Freedom?
Siep Stuurman Francois Poulain De La Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality
Wiep van Bunge The early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750.Selected
Papers of a Conference held at the Herzog August Bibliothek
Michiel Wielema The march of the libertines. Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church
(1660-1750)

3. New Journal Announcement
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

4. Spring Conference Announcements
Les lumières radicales: la transformation philosophique en Europe entre 1650 et 1750 26-28 février 2004
The Age of Antiquaries in Europe and China 25 –27 March
British Society For The History Of Philosophy John Locke Tercentenary Conference 2-4 April 2004
The History of the Book and Literary Cultures: An International Symposium in London 12-14 July 2004

5. Past Conference Reports
Platonism at the origins of modernity: The Platonic Tradition and the rise of Modern 27-29th March 2003.
Philosophy, Politics, and Theology in the 17th and 18th 17-18 October 2003
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) And His Library A Study Day and Commemoration, British Library, 24-25 November, 2003.

6 Seminar Announcements
Counter Canons Seminar in Cultural History at the Bard Graduate Centre, New York
EMPHASIS Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Institute of English Studies, London.
Scholars and Scholarship and History of Scholarship at the Warburg Institute, London
La Conjugaison Des Anciens Sylvie TAUSSIG (CHPM-CNRS) and Levent YILMAZ (EHESS), Paris.