Niall Dilucia

From September 2023 to August 2025, Niall Dilucia is a postdoctoral fellow in the history of the philosophy of science at the CNRS and Maison Française d’Oxford. He is working on the ERC NOTCOM project, researching the history of scientific consensus and ‘common notions’ in the seventeenth century. 

Niall holds a BA in History, MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History, and a PhD in History (all from the University of Cambridge). He specialises in the intellectual and cultural history of seventeenth-century philosophy and science. He has published on the philosophy of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) and on the thought of the French Cartesian Robert Desgabets (1610–1678).

Recent publications 
N. Dilucia (2023) ‘Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby's Philosophy of the Soul' History of European Ideas 49:3, 506–522 – https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2022.2084635 
N. Dilucia (2022) ‘Robert Desgabets' Eucharistic Thought and the Theological Revision of Cartesianism' Intellectual History Review 32:4, 669–690 (awarded 2nd place in the ISIH's Charles Schmitt Prize competition 2021) –  https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2021.1913350

Other Writing
‘Seventeenth-Century Catholic Philosophers in Cambridge University Library’ (Guest Post, Cambridge University Special Collections Blog, August 2022) – https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23278