BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T095259Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Budapest:20161014T060000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Budapest:20161015T130000 SUMMARY:First Budapest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy UID:20260404T153551Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Budapest LOCATION:Múzeum körút 4\, Budapest\, Hungary\, 1088 DESCRIPTION:

First Budapest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

\n&ldquo\;Affectivity&rdquo\; \;
14th-15th October \;
Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University Budapest\, \;
Faculty of Humanities \;
Institute of Philosophy &ndash\; Doctoral School &ldquo\;Philosophical Sciences&rdquo\; \;

Friday\, 14 October \;

9.30 Plenary session\n
9.30 Opening address \;
Prof. Lá\;szló\; Borhy\, CMHAS\, dean of the faculty \;\n9.45 Keynote speaker: Ursula Renz (Alpen-Adria Univeristä\;t Klagenfurt): Shaftesbury on the Conception of the Human Mind \;

10.45 coffee break \;

11.00 Parallel panels \;

Panel 1 \;
11.00 Abel B. Franco (California State University\, Northridge): Descartes and the Baroque \;
11.45 Borza Natá\;lia (Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University\, Budapest): The Opera House of Natural Philosophy \;
12.30 Csuka Botond (Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University\, Budapest): Affectivity and Teleology in Kames's Elements of Criticism \;

Panel 2 \;
11.00 dr. Filip Buyse (Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on - Sorbonne): Spinoza and Huygens: Letter 32 and the discovery of synchronization \;
11.45 Davide Monaco (University of Aberdeen): A new account of the objective-formal distinction in Spinoza&rsquo\;s parallelism theory \;
12.30 Dr. Daniel Schneider (Haifa University): Spinoza&rsquo\;s Meditation on the Candle Wax \;

13.15 lunch break \;

15.00 Panels \;

Panel 3 \;
15.00 Smrcz Á\;dá\;m (Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University\, Budapest): A Neo-Stoic Theory of Natural and Unnatural Affections \;
15.45 Alexandra Ileana Bacalu (University of Bucharest): The Rise of Pleasure in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Approaches to the Good Affective Life \;
16.30 Olay Csaba (Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University\, Budapest): Alienation in Rousseau? \;
17.15 Joseph Rees (Georgetown University): Agential Rebound in Rousseau&rsquo\;s Theory of Recognition \;

Panel 4 \;
15.00 Steph Marston (Birkbeck College): Spinoza: affect as redirection of conatus \;
15.45 Keith Green (East Tennessee State University): Spinoza on the Imitation of Reflexive Affects \;
16.30 Christopher M. Davidson (Ball State University): An Affective Aesthetics in Spinoza and Its Political Implications. \;
17.15 Zsolt Bagi (University of Pé\;cs): Emancipation of the body in Spinoza&rsquo\;s political philosophy. The affective integration \;

18.00 coffee break \;

18.15 Presentation of the work and books published by the members of KUFIM (Early Modern Philosophy Research Group at the Department of Philosophy of Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University\, Budapest) \;

19.00 Wine and cheese party \;

Saturday\, 15 October \;

9.30 Parallel panels \;

Panel 5 \;
9.30 Aino Lahdenranta (University of Jyvä\;skylä\;): Hutcheson&rsquo\;s ambivalence about the passions &ndash\; must virtue and fittingness come apart? \;
10.15 Daniel Jayes O'Brien (Oxford Brookes University): Hume\, sympathy and belief \;
11.00 Hans Muller (American University of Beirut): Hume and Smith on Sympathy and Impartiality \;
11.45 Peter Hartl (Aberdeen): Hume's criticism of vulgar religion and the rationality of theism \;

Panel 6 \;
9.30 Jan Forsman (University of Tampere): Madness is Somewhere Between Chaos and Having a Dream: Madness &\; Dream in Descartes&rsquo\;s First Meditation \;
10.15 Max Kiener (University of Oxford): The Compulsion To Believe Something. On the Affectivity of Indubitable Clear and Distinct Perceptions in Descartes \;
11.00 Hanna Vandenbussche (KU Leuven): Descartes on Imagination and the Passions \;
11.45 Ké\;kedi Bá\;lint (University of Aberdeen): What are animal passions in animals and humans for Descartes? \;

12.30 lunch break \;

14.30 Panel 7 \;
14.30 Tamá\;s Pavlovits (University of Szeged): The Experience of God in Pascal \;
15.15 Dá\;vid Bartha (Central European University): The human passions and the purely active will of God: Introduction to Berkeley&rsquo\;s theory of emotion \;
16.00 Hans Lottenbach (Kenyon College): A Priori Passion \;

14.30 Panel 8 \;
14.30 Dá\;niel Schmal (Pá\;zmá\;ny Pé\;ter Catholic University\, Budapest): Unconscious desires as physical causes in the early modern philosophy of nature \;
15.15 Brian Glenney (Norwich University): Solid bodies: affective embodiment in Locke&rsquo\;s analysis of touch \;
16.00 Andrew Bevan (Kingsto University): Reading affect and passion in Kant and Aristotle: toward a new materialist theory of affect \;

16.45 coffee break \;

17.00 Plenary session \;
17.00 Gá\;bor Boros (Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University\, Budapest): Life as death in Spinoza \;
17.45 closing words ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR