Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 30-31 May 2018

Program
Wednesday 30 May 2018

8:30 am Arrival

9:00 am Keynote: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven): Kant’s Inquiries into a New Touchstone for Metaphysical Truth

10:30 am Coffee

10:45 am Hadley Marie Cooney (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Cavendish and Descartes on Animal Consciousness

11:30 am Botond Csuka (Eötvös Loránd University): “Gentle” and “Gross” Exercises: Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being in Addison’s Essays

12:15 pm Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Locke on Ideas of Reflection, Inner Sense, and the Historical Plain Method

1:00 pm Lunch (own arrangements)

2:15 pm Anna Markwart (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń): Sophie de Grouchy and Adam Smith: Education for Sympathy

3:00 pm Stephen Evensen (Biola University): Reading Kant Through Grotius: Is the Categorical Imperative Substantive or Procedural?

3:45 pm Stephen Howard (KU Leuven): Physical and Psychological Forces in Wolff, Baumgarten, and Kant

4:30 pm Tea

4:45 pm Nathan Porter (University of Utah): Spinoza's Theodicy (via Skype)

5:15 pm Nastassja Pugliese (University of São Paulo): Substance and Individuation in Anne Conway as a Critique to Spinoza

6:00 pm Adam Harmer (University of California, Riverside): Anthony Collins on Texture and Structural Emergence
Thursday 31 May 2018

8:30 am Doors open

9:00 am Iulia Mihai (Ghent University): Du Châtelet on the Principle of Continuity, Change and Process

9:45 am Scott Harkema (Ohio State University): On the Role of Illusion in Du Chatelet’s Theory of Happiness

10:30 am Coffee

10:45 am Boris Demarest (University of Amsterdam): Soul as Nature: the Naturalist Animism of Van Helmont and Stahl

11:30 am Keynote: Christia Mercer (Columbia University): Descartes’ Demons and Debts, or Why We Should Work on Women in the History of Philosophy

1:00 pm End


Attendance is free and all are welcome, especially students.

Register here: Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Sponsors
  • History of Philosophy Group, Utrecht University
  • Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University
  • Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen
  • Study Group in Early Modern Philosophy, OZSW

OrganizersChris Meyns (Utrecht)
Andrea Sangiacomo (Groningen)


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