The SSEMP is a yearly event that brings together established scholars\, young researchers and advanced graduate students working in the field of Early Modern Philosophy. \;
\nThis year\, the event will take place in the brand new Queen Mother Library \;on campus. For more info on the location\, see: \;http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/about/main. Please note that the SSEMP cannot \;provide funding for travel or accommodation. Information concerning possible \;hotels and B&\;B&rsquo\;s close to campus will be provided once the program is set.
For those who might consider staying a couple of days extra\, note that the \;British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference will take \;place immediately after\, on 11-12 May\, at the University of Dundee\, about 1 \;1/2 hours train ride south of Aberdeen. The theme of this conference is: \;&ldquo\;Spinoza\, the Infinite and the Eternal.&rdquo\; For further information and the \;call for papers\, see: \;http://spinozaresearchnetwork.wordpress.com
Program
Wednesday\, 9 May
9.00-9.15 Welcome and Coffee. Sponsored by Oxford University Press.
Session I: Locke
Chair: Mogens Læ\;rke (University of Aberdeen / ENS de Lyon)
9.15-10.00 Ruth Boeker (University of St. Andrews)\, &ldquo\;'Locke on Persons and \;Personal Identity.&rdquo\;
10.00-10.45 Dietmar Heidemann (University of Luxemburg)\, &ldquo\;Self-Knowledge \;and Intuition. Locke&rsquo\;s Critique of Descartes.&rdquo\;
10.45-11.00 Break
Key Note Speech
Chair: Julie Klein (University of Villanova\, Philadelphia)
11.00-12.00 Stephen Gaukroger (University of Aberdeen / University of \;Sydney)\, &ldquo\;Sensibility and Metaphysics: &ldquo\;Diderot\, Hume\, Baumgarten\, and \;Herder.&rdquo\;
12.00-13.30 Lunch at the Bishop&rsquo\;s Table (Speakers and chairs only)
Session II: Leibniz
Chair: Emily Thomas (Cambridge University)
13.30-14.15 Matteo Favaretti Camposamieri (Università\; Ca' Foscari \;Venezia)\, &ldquo\;De veris et falsis ideis. Leibniz on Ideas as Truth-Bearers.&rdquo\;
14.15-15.00 Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore College\, Saratoga Springs\, \;NY)\, &ldquo\;Leibnizian Naturalism.&rdquo\;
15.00-15.30 Break
Session III: Spinoza I
Chair: Beth Lord (University of Dundee)
15.30-16.15 Markku Roinila (University of Edinburgh / University of \;Helsinki)\, &ldquo\;Leibniz and Spinoza on Affects and Perception.&rdquo\;
16.15-17.00 Jon Miller (Queen&rsquo\;s University\, Kingston\, Ontario)\, &ldquo\;Spinoza \;on the Life According to Nature.&rdquo\;
Thursday\, 10 May
9.00-9.15 Coffee
Session IV: History of Philosophy and History of Science
Chair: Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College\, City University of New York)
9.15-10.00 Michael Olson (University of Villanova\, Philadelphia)\, &ldquo\;The \;Camera Obscura and the Nature of the Soul: An Examination of Early 18th \;Century German Metaphysics and Natural Science.&rdquo\;
10.00-10.45 Gabriel Alban-Zapata (ENS de Lyon)\, &ldquo\;Pierre Chanet's \;Psychophysiology and Louis de La Forge&rsquo\;s reconstruction of the Cartesian \;theory of mind.&rdquo\;
10.45-11.00 Break
Key Note Speech
Chair: Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
11.00-12.00 Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University\, \;Baltimore)\, &ldquo\;Spinoza&rsquo\;s Mereology.&rdquo\;
12.00-13.30 Lunch at The Bishop&rsquo\;s Table (speakers and chairs only)
Session V: Hobbes and Hume
Chair: Michael LeBuffe (Texas A&\;M)
13.30-14.15 Martine Pecharman (CNRS &ndash\; Maison Franç\;aise d&rsquo\;Oxford)\, &ldquo\;Hobbes \;on Human Nature and Language.&rdquo\;
14.15-15.00 Dario Perinetti (UQAM\, Montreal)\, &ldquo\;Morality and the Historical \;Point of view: Reading Hume&rsquo\;s A Dialogue.&rdquo\;
15.00-15.30 Break
Session VI: Spinoza II
Chair: Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku)
15.30-16.15 Andrea Sangiacomo (ENS de Lyon)\, &ldquo\;What a Body can do: Spinoza \;against Occasionalism.&rdquo\;
16.15-17.00 Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent)\, &ldquo\;Spinoza and the \;Newtonians on Motion and Matter (and God\, of course).&rdquo\;
There is no registration fee. All are welcome to attend.
Organization: Mogens Læ\;rke (University of Aberdeen / CERPHI\, ENS de Lyon).
Contact: \;m.laerke@abdn.ac.uk