Martine Pécharman is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy. She is strongly interested in issues of metaphysics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, yet her focus on the logical aspects of early modern theories of practical reason and human agency also involved her in a broader enquiry on the Aristotelian tradition and the natural law tradition. Her concern in the history of political thought from Renaissance to eighteenth century was accordingly connected with her interest in the epistemology of action. Her main area of research has included on the one hand Hobbes's philosophy of mind and logic, on the other hand Pascal's epistemology and anthropology, as well as the definition of a natural logic in Port-Royal doctrine of the art of thinking. She is currently completing her annotated edition (together with Jean-Claude Pariente) of Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines and her French translation of Hobbes's De motu, loco et tempore (Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, MS Latin 6566A).

Martine Pécharman is engaged in the Maison Française d'Oxford in two new lines of research : firstly the doctrine of causation and natural agency in Cambridge Platonism (she focuses on the criteria of natural philosophy according to More and Cudworth and on the import given in their Neoplatonic philosophy to the notion of sympathy), secondly the history of logic in late seventeenth-century England (her major interest is in the duality between Wallis's requirement of a ‘new logic ' understood as an art of reasoning rather than an art of judging and Locke's theory of knowledge, assessed as to its links with Port-Royal doctrine of ideas and judgment). 

Martine Pécharman was in 2006-2008 the Supervising Editor of the section Port-Royal and Its Adversaries for The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers (General Editor : L. Foisneau). From 2005 to 2009, she was a member of the jury of the ‘agrégation de philosophie'. Since 2008, she is a redactor of the journal Les Études philosophiques.

"Le problème de la distinction des idées", dans Locke et Leibniz. Deux styles de rationalité, eds Martine de Gaudemar et Philippe Hamou, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, 2011, p. 13-45.

"HOBBES, Thomas ,1588-1679", dans Dictionnaire de la Violence, ed Michela Marzano, P.U.F., Paris, 2011, p. 617-631.

"La vie ou la liberté ? Le droit d'esclavage dans le droit naturel moderne", in Droits, 50, 2009 [publ. 2010], pp. 89-117. 

“Il faut parier : Locke ou Pascal ?”, in Les Études philosophiques, 2010 (4), pp. 479-516.

“The ‘Rules of Critique’. Richard Simon and Antoine Arnauld”, in The Making of the Humanities, vol. I (Early Modern Europe), ed. Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn, Amsterdam University Press, 2010, pp. 327-347. 

"La lecture des Éclaircissements de Bayle par Leibniz", in Les ‘Éclaircissements' de Pierre Bayle, ed. H. Bost and A. McKenna (Honoré Champion, 2010), pp. 471-498.

"De quel langage mental Hobbes est-il le théoricien ?", in Le Langage mental du Moyen Âge à l'Âge classique, ed. J. Biard (Peeters, 2009), pp. 265-291.

"Le contrat comme transfert volontaire de droit. Sur le contrat générique chez Thomas Hobbes", in Repenser le contrat, ed. G. Lewkowicz and M. Xifaras (Dalloz, 2009), pp. 39-54.

"Malebranche's Ontological Problem of the Perception of Bodies ", in Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. S. Knuuttila and P. Kärkkäinen (Springer : Studies in the Philosophy of Mind, 2008), pp. 245-69.

"Le peuple contre l'espace public, ou les réquisits de la vie politique selon Hobbes", in Démocratie et espace public : quel pouvoir pour le peuple ?, ed. I. Koch and N. Lenoir (Georg Olms Verlag, 2008), pp. 41-61.

"Droit naturel moderne" and "Esclavage (Doctrines de l')", in Dictionnaire des droits de l'homme, ed. J. Andriantsimbazovina, H. Gaudin, J.-P. Marguénaud, S. Rials and F. Sudre (PUF-Quadrige, 2008), 313b-318b and 378a-382a.

"L'analyse de l'action volontaire dans la IVème Provinciale", in Chroniques de Port-Royal (58) (2008), 277-292.

"Arnauld, Antoine", "Callières, François de", "Deimier, Pierre de", "Faret, Nicolas", "Filleau de la Chaise, Nicolas", "Labbé, Philippe", "Méré, Antoine Gombaud, chevalier de", "Montfaucon de Villars, Nicolas-Pierre-Henri", "Pascal, Blaise", "Périer, Étienne", "Périer, Louis", "Sesmaisons, Pierre de", "Simon, Richard", in Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, ed. L. Foisneau (Thoemmes Continuum, 2008), 37-44, 222-224, 329-330, 460-462, 481-483, 646-647, 852-856, 887-890, 951-959, 977-978, 979-980, 1167-1168, 1171-1178.

"Strauss : The Search for the Hidden Foundation of Modernity in the Political Philosophy of Hobbes", in Leviathan Between the Wars. Hobbes's Impact on Early Twentieth-Century Political Philosophy, ed. L. Foisneau, J.-Ch. Merle and T. Sorell (Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 21-40 -French version in Droits (45) (2007), 191-208.

"Port-Royal et l'analyse augustinienne du langage", in Augustin au XVIIe siècle, ed. L. Devillairs (Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2007), pp. 101-134.

"Le soi selon Pascal", in Il moderno fra Prometeo e Narciso, ed. M. V. Romeo (Catania, 2007), pp. 91-117.

"L'Anti-Pascal en filigrane de Voltaire", in Historia Philosophica (5) (2007), 37-53.

"Le signe selon Hobbes", in Lumières (10) (2007), 45-64.

"Le problème du principe des jugements pratiques : Kant critique d'une illusion de Hobbes", in Kant et Hobbes : de la violence à la politique, ed. L. Foisneau and D. Thouard (Vrin, 2005), pp. 33-54.