Michael Jaworzyn

Michael is a postdoctoral researcher (CNRS) at the Maison Française d’Oxford. He works on early modern philosophy and intellectual history, especially on the early reception of Descartes and Locke in the Dutch and German-speaking lands. He is particularly interested in questions about the history of metaphysics as a discipline, and early modern views on causation and action.

He holds a PhD in Philosophy from KU Leuven, “Causation and the Cartesian Mind After Geulincx”. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on the AHRC-DFG project “The Reception of John Locke in Germany”, and held shorter teaching positions at the University of Roehampton; and the University of Hertfordshire; St. Peter’s College, Oxford. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Warburg Institute, a non-residential fellow on the Panentheism and Religious Life project, and received a Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowship from the Journal of the History of Philosophy.