Israel-Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

In Cooperation with Tel Aviv University.

PROGRAM:

Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute,
Upper Hall

10:00 Arrival

10:10–10:30 Opening and Greetings

10:30–12:30 SESSION ONE
Chair: Eli Friedlander, Tel Aviv University

- Lilli Alanen, Uppsala University
Affects and Ideas in Spinoza’s Therapy of the Passions

- Ericka Tucker, California State Polytechnic University
Emotion and Reason in Spinoza’s Social Theory

12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 SESSION TWO
Chair: Pini Ifergan, Bar-Ilan University

- Yakir Levin, Ben–Gurion University of the Negev
The Unity and Coherence of Spinoza’s Account of Freedom, Reason, and the Passions

- Julie R. Klein, Villanova University
Intellection and Freedom

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–18:00 SESSION THREE
Chair: Noa Shein, Ben–Gurion University of the Negev

- Noa Naaman-Zauderer, Tel Aviv University
Self–Experience and the Imago Dei Doctrine in Descartes and Spinoza

- Jonathan Fine, Columbia University
Becoming Like God: Freedom of the Will in Descartes


Monday, May 20, 2013
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute,
Upper Hall

10:30–12:30 SESSION FOUR
Chair: Daniel Cook, Brooklyn College, CUNY

- John Cottingham, University of Reading
The Passions: Help or Hindrance to the Good Life?

- Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University
Descartes and Spinoza on the Primitive Passions: Why So Different?

12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 SESSION FIVE
Chair: Roy Polad, Tel Aviv University

- Amihud Gilead, University of Haifa
Spinoza on Passions, Reason, and Freedom

- John Grey, Boston University
Spinoza on Reason, Freedom, and the Composition of the Body

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–18:00 SESSION SIX
Chair: Raz Chen Morris, Bar-Ilan University

- Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University; Visiting professor at Tel Aviv University
Descartes vs. Kant on Reason and Representation

- Elliot Samuel Paul, Barnard College,Columbia University
Reason as the Faculty of Modal Cognition: Descartes on Certainty and Doubt


Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tel Aviv University,
Gilman Building, Room 496

10:30–12:30 SESSION SEVEN
Chair: Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv University

- Michael Della Rocca, Yale University
Spinoza’s Causal Theory of Action: Inexplicability in, and of, Action

- Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan University
Agency and Necessity in Spinoza

12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 SESSION EIGHT
Chair: Yohay Bloom, Tel Aviv University

- Omri Boehm, The New School for Social Research
Freedom, Générosité, and the Cogito: Cartesian Self-Constitution Reconsidered

- Saja Parvizian, University of Illinois at Chicago
Cartesian Generosity Reconsidered

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–18:00 SESSION NINE
Chair: Lydia Amir, College of Management

- Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Johns Hopkins University
Spinoza’s Amor Dei Intellectualis

- Yirmiyahu Yovel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The New School for Social Research
Reason and Beatitude: Self-Love in Humans and in God

Admission is free

On Sunday-Monday, May 19-20, the conference will be held at the Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute

On Tuesday, May 21, the conference will be held at Tel Aviv University,
Gilman Building, Room 496