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Dr Michael Edwards

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Dr Michael Edwards

Gurnee Hart Fellow and College Lecturer in History

Affiliated Lecturer

Jesus College
Cambridge CB5 8BL
Office Phone: 01223 339310
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Biography:

PhD Cambridge 2006.

MPhil Cambridge 2002.

BA Cambridge 2000.

I was a Junior Research Fellow in History at Christ's College, Cambridge from 2005 to 2009, and a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University from 2000 to 2001.

Subject groups/Research projects

Early Modern History:
Modern European History:
Political Thought And Intellectual History:

Departments and Institutes

Jesus College:

Research Supervision

I supervise graduate students for the M.Phil in Political Thought and Intellectual History; I can offer a supervision across a range of topics in intellectual history from 1550-1800.

Teaching

I supervise 4 undergraduate papers:

'The History of Political Thought to c.1700' (Part 1 Paper 19 / Part 2 Paper 3)

'The History of Political Thought c.1700-c.1890' (Part 1 Paper 20 / Part 2 Paper 4)

'European history 1450-1760' (Part 1 Paper 16)

'The Politics of Knowledge from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment' (Part 2 Paper 17)

I regularly lecture for Part 2 Paper 17 ('The Politics of Knowledge') and Part 1 Paper 16 (Early modern Europe).

Other Professional Activities

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), 2009.

Keywords

  • Early Modern History

Key Publications

  • ‘Marin Cureau de la Chambre and Pierre Chanet on Time and the Passions of the Soul’, forthcoming in History of European Ideas.
  • ‘The Fate of Commentary in the Philosophy of the Schools c.1550-1640’, forthcoming in Intellectual History Review.
  • ‘Substance and Essence’ forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century ed. Peter Anstey (Oxford University Press).
  • ‘Philosophy, Early Modern Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy’, Metaphilosophy 43 (1-2) (2012), 82-95.
  • 'Time and Perception in Late Renaissance Aristotelianism', in Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Thought, ed. Simo Knuuttila and Pekka Kärkkäinen, (Springer: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mind, 2008), pp.225-243.
  • 'Digressing with Aristotle: Hieronymus Dandinus' De corpore animato (1610) and the Expansion of late Aristotelian Philosophy', Early Science and Medicine 13 (2), (2008), 127-170.
  • 'Aristotelianism, Descartes and Hobbes', Historical Journal 50 (2) (2007), 449-464.
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