Jacopo Agnesina

obtained his PhD in 2013 at the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO) with a dissertation on Anthony Collins (advisor Prof. Gianluca Mori), which was published in 2018 by Honoré Champion. Since 2009 he has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals. He spent 1-year post-doc at “La Sapienza” University in Rome working on David Hume and the Scottish early Enlightenment. Currently, he is a post-doc Fellow at the “Società di Studi Valdesi” (Torre Pellice, Italy) working on the reception of Radical Enlightenment by the Calvinist Swiss theologians.

Nicholas Cronk

is Professor of European Enlightenment Studies and Director of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. He is General Editor of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire/Complete works of Voltaire (203 vols, 1968–2021), has edited many of Voltaire’s works and has written widely about this author, including Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017). He was Principal Investigator of Electronic Enlightenment (2000–2009) and now directs Digital Voltaire (2019–). With Glenn Roe, he has recently co-authored Voltaire’s Correspondence: Digital Readings (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Mélanie Éphrème

est titulaire d’un Master en Philosophie et Histoire des Sciences (Université de Paris). Son mémoire s’est concentré sur d’Holbach traducteur scientifique, en particulier sur sa bibliographie, ses pratiques traductrices et son cercle intellectuel constitué de traducteurs de chimie et d’histoire naturelle. Aujourd’hui, elle est doctorante en Humanités Numériques (Sorbonne Université), au sein de l’Institut des Sciences des Calculs et des Données. Sa problématique de recherche consiste à considérer l’apport des humanités numériques à l’histoire de la chimie, à partir d’un corpus exhaustif de dictionnaires et d’encyclopédies du XVIII^e siècle.

Enrico Galvagni

is a PhD Candidate at the University of St Andrews. His project covers the philosophical debate around the subjects of emotion and virtue in David Hume and his contemporaries. Prior to his time at St Andrews, he was a DAAD-Fellow at the University of Cologne and the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study (Germany). He holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Trento (Italy), where he authored a dissertation on Hume’s theory of the passions. His research interests include early modern philosophy, Enlightenment studies and ethics.

Jonathan Israel

taught for thirty years in British universities (1970–2000) at Newcastle upon Tyne, Hull (1972–1974) and University College London. He held the Chair in Dutch History and Institutions at UCL from 1985 to 2000. He was Professor of Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton from 2001 to 2016. The fourth and final part of his tetralogy of volumes on the trans-Atlantic Enlightenment appeared in 2019 under the title The Enlightenment that Failed. Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748–1830 (Oxford University Press).

Alan Charles Kors

is Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught for 49 years. He is the author of numerous books and articles on early-modern French intellectual history, and he was editor-in-chief of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press). In June 2016, he published two works with Cambridge University Press: Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729 and Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650–1729. His book, D’Holbach’s Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris, was re-issued by Princeton University Press in 2015. He is the recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

Mladen Kozul

est Associate Professor of French à l’Université du Montana aux États-Unis. Il a enseigné à l’Université de Zagreb, à la Sorbonne, à l’Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, à Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), à Scripps College et à l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles. Il a consacré cinq livres à l’histoire littéraire et culturelle de l’âge classique et aux Lumières françaises et anglaises. Il vit entre Missoula au Montana et Paris.

Brunello Lotti

is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Udine (Italy). His research interests focus on the relations among natural philosophy, metaphysics and theology in early modern philosophy, including the history of Platonism, and the reception of Cartesian scepticism and mechanicism. He is author of the monographs Ralph Cudworth e l’idea di natura plastica (2004), and L’iperbole del dubbio. Lo scetticismo cartesiano nella filosofia inglese tra Sei e Settecento (2010). He coedited Scienza e teologia fra Seicento e Ottocento. Studi in memoria di Maurizio Mamiani (2006), and Eredità cartesiane nella cultura britannica (2011). His articles and essays cover several authors and topics, mainly in early modern British philosophy, from the Cambridge Platonists to Locke and Berkeley.

Emilio Mazza

is Associate Professor at the IULM University in Milan. He works primarily on modern philosophy. He has published several papers on Hume, and is the co-editor (with E. Ronchetti) of the New Essays on David Hume (2007). Recently he published (with G. Mori) an extensive article on Hume’s Early memoranda; another essay on part XII of the Dialogues is forthcoming in K. Williford, ed., Hume’s “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”: A Philosophical Appraisal (Routledge).

Gianluca Mori

is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO). He is the author of several contributions on Pierre Bayle, Cartesianism, Hume’s philosophy of religion and early-modern atheism. Recently he published (with E. Mazza) an extensive article on Hume’s Early memoranda; another essay on part XII of the Dialogues is forthcoming in K. Williford, ed., Hume’s “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”: A Philosophical Appraisal (Routledge).

Iryna Mykhailova

has completed a PhD in History of Philosophy from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2011. From 2012 to 2017, she has taught philosophy at the Kyiv National Linguistic University. Mykhailova has been a recipient of the Fulbright Award (2014–2015, State University of New York at Albany, USA) and Moritz Stern Fellowship in Modern Jewish Studies at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of Göttingen University, Germany (2017–2019). In 2021, she has obtained the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (2021–2024) with the research project “Humanism behind the Iron Curtain: Italian Renaissance Studies in the Soviet Union”. Among her research interests are the history of Renaissance philosophy, 20th-century Renaissance historiography, the intellectual legacy of Paul Oskar Kristeller, and, more broadly, the circle of German exile scholars of Renaissance, who emigrated from Europe to the United States in the 1930–40s.

Laura Nicolì

is Research Fellow at the Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura in Turin, in partnership with the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in History of Philosophy and History of Ideas from “La Sapienza” (Rome) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). Her field of research is the history of early modern philosophy, with a special focus on Enlightenment philosophy of religion. Her book Les Philosophes et les dieux. Le polythéisme en débat dans la France des Lumières (1704–1770) is in press by Honoré Champion. She is currently working on the first scholarly edition of d’Holbach’s La Contagion sacrée for Digital d’Holbach.

Gianni Paganini

is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO) and fellow of the Research Centre of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome). He is the author of many books on early modern philosophy, including: Pierre Bayle (Florence 1980); Les Philosophies clandestines (Paris 2005, Rome 2008); Skepsis. Le débat des modernes (Paris 2008). He edited and commented several texts: Theophrastus redivivus (1659), first and critical edition with G. Canziani (2 vols, Florence 1981–2); Hobbes, Moto, luogo e tempo (Turin 2010); Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Milan 2013). Recently, he edited Skepticism and Political Thought in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Toronto-Los Angeles 2015, with C. Laursen); Early Modern Philosophy and the Renaissance Legacy (Berlin-New York 2016, with C. Muratori); Clandestine philosophy (with M.C. Jacob and J.C. Laursen, Toronto-Los Angeles 2020). For his philosophical work, he received the prize of the Accademia dei Lincei (2011) and his book Skepsis was awarded by the Académie Française (2009).

Paolo Quintili

est professeur d’Histoire de la philosophie à l’Université de Rome “Tor Vergata”. Il est spécialiste du matérialisme occidental entre XVII^e et XVIII^e siècle, du rationalisme et de la philosophie de la nature dès l’époque moderne à nos jours, par rapport à « l’art » et les sciences. Il s’est formé à Paris où il a passé son Doctorat et l’HDR à la Sorbonne (1998–2006) et s’est occupé notamment de la philosophie critique des Lumières dans ses effets jusque dans la philosophie contemporaine. Il a publié, en particulier, La pensée critique de Diderot, Paris, 2001 ; et Matérialismes et Lumières, Paris, 2009. Il a été Directeur de programme au Collège International de Philosophie de Paris (2010–2016).

Alain Sandrier

est professeur de littérature française à l’Université de Caen Normandie. Ses travaux portent sur l’irréligion des Lumières à travers les cas, en particulier, de Voltaire, du baron d’Holbach, des manuscrits philosophiques clandestins et de l’Encyclopédie. Il a publié Le Style philosophique du baron d’Holbach (2004), une étude sur le Dictionnaire philosophique de Voltaire (2008), ainsi que de nombreux articles et éditions critiques (Le Théâtre de l’incrédulité, 2012 ; essais et marginalia pour les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire à Oxford, t. 65C et t. 145 ; articles « Théocratie » et « Prêtres » du baron d’Holbach pour l’ENCCRE).

Ruggero Sciuto

is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he leads an international project to create the first scholarly edition of d’Holbach’s complete works (Digital d’Holbach). He is the author of a monograph on the theory of determinism jointly advanced by Diderot and d’Holbach (manuscript invited by LUP) and is currently working on a second book to understand how d’Holbach’s authorial choices may have affected the reception of his ideas in his lifetime and at the time of the Revolution. He is a collaborator on both the Oxford edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire and the Edizione Nazionale del Carteggio di Lodovico Antonio Muratori, and has published in premier journals, including the Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France and Archivio Storico Italiano. For Digital d’Holbach he is currently working on editions of the Lettres à Eugénie and Le Bon sens.

Maria Susana Seguin

est Maître de conférences habilitée à diriger des recherches à l’Université Paul-

Valéry Montpellier 3, rattachée à l’IHRIM UMR 5317 ENS de Lyon et membre senior de l’Institut Universitaire de France. Elle a notamment publié Science et religion dans la pensée française du XVIII^e siècle (Honoré Champion, 2001) ainsi que de nombreux articles et chapitres consacrés à la littérature philosophique clandestine. Directrice-adjointe de la revue La Lettre clandestine, elle est également co-responsable de la plateforme http://philosophie-clandestine.huma-num.fr/index.html.

Gerhardt Stenger

est Maître de conférences HDR émérite à l’Université de Nantes. Il travaille sur Diderot, Voltaire et les philosophes matérialistes des Lumières. Il participe aux grandes éditions critiques de Diderot et de Voltaire publiées respectivement à Paris (Hermann, 1975 et suiv.) et à Oxford (Voltaire Foundation, 1968–2020). Il vient de terminer la première édition critique des Œuvres complètes d’Helvétius (Honoré Champion, 2011–2020, 3 vol.). Derniers ouvrages : Diderot. Le combattant de la liberté (Perrin, 2013) ; Diderot : Notes écrites de la main d’un souve­rain à la marge de Tacite, ou Principes de politique des souverains, accompagnés d’extraits du De arcanis rerumpublicarum d’Arnoldus Clapmarius (Paris, 2015) ; Voltaire : Les Singularités de la nature (Oxford, 2017).