In recent years, Malebranche studies have experienced an international revival, enriched by work from a variety of disciplines (history of science, literary analysis, intellectual history).

In addition to these new interdisciplinary perspectives, there have been fruitful contributions from new methodological approaches to writing the history of philosophy, which further diversify the ways of approaching Malebranche's work and draw new conclusions.

This international PhD conference on Malebranche studies aims to build on this recent work by inviting young researchers (currently pursuing a PhD or who have defended their thesis within the last five years) to present their work on Malebranche's thought.

Three major but non-exclusive areas of analysis have emerged:

• Malebranche, his work and his time,
• Malebranchisms: the reception of Malebranche's philosophy (18th-20th centuries),
• Malebranche in the present: updating Malebranchism.