BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T040402Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140514T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140515T130000 SUMMARY:Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy V UID:20260607T010713Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:University of Aberdeen\, Aberdeen\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:

University of Aberdeen\, Scotland
14-15 May 2014
Sir Duncan Rice Library\, Meeting Room 1 (room 706)

Key Note Speakers:
Susan James (Birkbeck/ Princeton)
John Sellars (Birkbeck/Oxford)

NB: REGISTRATION is free\, but obligatory. In order to gain access to the
library\, attendees must figure on the attendance list.


PROGRAM

Wednesday\, 14 May
9.15-9.30 Coffee and Welcome

Session I
Chair: Mogens Læ\;rke (University of Aberdeen / CNRS\, UMR 5037\, ENS-Lyon)
9.30-10.15 Olivia Bailey (Harvard University)\, Empathy\, Care\, and
Understanding in Adam Smith&rsquo\;s Theory of Moral Sentiments
10.15-11.00 Thomas D. Micklich and Roman Alexander Barton (Humboldt
Universitty\, Berlin)\, Transformations of Sympathy: Shaftesbury and Adam
Smith between Ancients and Moderns

11.00-11.15 Break

Session II SSEMP Essay Prize winner (sponsored by he BSHP)
Chair: Pauline Phemister (University of Edinburgh)
11.15-12.15 J. D. Taylor (University of Roehampton)\, Collective Bodies\,
Collective Minds: Reason\, Security and Power in Spinoza&rsquo\;s Tractatus
Politicus

12.15-14.00 Lunch Break

Key Note
Chair: TBA
14.00-15.00 Susan James (Birkbeck College/Princeton University)\, Spinoza on
Political and Individual Freedom
15.00-15.30 Break

Session III
Chair: TBA
15.30-16.15 Arnaud Milanese (ENS-Lyon)\, Bacon&rsquo\;s Uses of the History of
Philosophy
16.15-17.00 Rodolfo Garau (University of Torino / Max Planck institute for
the History of Science\, Berlin)\, The Sources and Strategies of Hobbes&rsquo\;s
Mechanical Doctrine of Self-Preservation

Thursday\, 15 May
9.15-9.30 Coffee

Session IV
Chair: Oberto Marrama (University of Aberdeen)
9.30-10.15 Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Tel Aviv University)\, Self-Experience and
the Imago Dei in Descartes and Spinoza
10.15-11.00 Gregor Kroupa (University of Ljubljana\, Slovenia)\, Truth
Through Fiction: History Written by Philosophers

11.00-11.15 Break

Session V
Chair: Peter Zoltan Hartl (University of Aberdeen)
11.15-12.00 Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto)\, Hume&rsquo\;s Essential
Fictions

12.00-14.00 Lunch Break

Key Note
Chair: Christian Maurer (University of Fribourg)
14.00-15.00 John Sellars (Birkbeck and Oxford)\, Shaftesbury\, Stoicism\, and
Philosophy as a Way of Life

15.00-15.30 Break

Session VI
Chair: Christopher Thomas (University of Aberdeen)
15.30-16.15 Nausicaa Elena Milani (University of Parma\, Italy)\,
Cartesianism and Anticartesianism in the Ré\;gis-Huet Debate
16.15-17.00 Balint Kekedi (University of Aberdeen)\, The Role of Animal
Passions in the Cognitive Economy of Humans and Higher Animals in Descartes

The event is sponsored by:
The Scots Philosophical Association
The School of Divinity\, History and Philosophy (University of Aberdeen)
British Society for the History of Philosophy
ANR Anthopos (ENS-Lyon)
Brill Academic Publishers

Organization:
Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen)
Mogens Læ\;rke (University of Aberdeen / CNRS\, UMR 5037\, ENS-Lyon)
For information\, please write to mogenslaerke@hotmail.com or to
s.b.lord@abdn.ac.uk

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