Book symposium on Udo Thiel’s „The Early Modern Subject“

Part of the event is a symposium on Udo Thiel’s book „The Early Modern Subject“ (Oxford 2011) with contributions by Christian Barth (HU Berlin), Martin Lenz (Groningen), Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt) and Falk Wunderlich (Mainz).

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Philosophicum, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
Fakultätssaal (room 01-185)

Thursday, November 21

9:00-9:15 Welcome

9:15-10:00 Bartholomew Begley (Cork): Spinoza’s reason as fully heeding the imagination

10:00-10:45 Yaron Wolf (Tel Aviv): The Development and Centrality of Spatial Perception in Berkeley’s Principles

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Kengo Miyazono (Birmingham): Hume on the Phenomenology of Belief

11:45-12:30 Rudolf Schüssler (Bayreuth): Kant on the Possession of Beliefs: Significance and History

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:15 Johan Olsthoorn (Leuven): The Matter of Duty: What Is Wrong and Who is Wronged in Hobbes’s Moral Philosophy

14:15-15:00 Dietrich Schotte (Marburg): The Sage in Public - Beneficial lying in Spinoza

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:15 Lorenzo Greco (Oxford):Hume and the Narrative of the Self

16:15-17:00 Michael Walschots (Western Ontario/Mainz): Hutcheson and Kant: Moral Sense and Moralisches Gefühl

17:00-17:15 Coffee break

17:15-18:00 Joshua Wood (Amherst College): Locke on Action and Power

Friday, November 22

9:00-12:45 Author meets Critics: Udo Thiel, The Early Modern Subject

9:00-9:45 Martin Lenz (Groningen): Is Locke's Revolution Really Subjectivist?
Udo Thiel (Graz): Reply

9:45-10:30 Christian Barth (HU Berlin): Consciousness in Early Modern Philosophy. Some Remarks on Thiel's account
Udo Thiel: Reply

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Falk Wunderlich (Mainz): Bundles, Selves, and the „New Hume“
Udo Thiel: Reply

11:45-12:30 Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt/Harvard): The idea of development. Some questions and comments on Thiel's methodology
Udo Thiel: Reply

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:45 Vili Lähteenmäki (Helsinki /HU Berlin): Collins on Powers of Parts and Wholes, and Consciousness

14:45-15:30 Jennifer Marusic (Brandeis/HU Berlin): Hume’s Sophisticated Causal Subjectivism

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:45 Helen Sarah Robertson (University College London): Leibniz, Kant, and the Ultimate Subject of Predication

16:45-17:30 Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt/Harvard): A Guide to Self-knowledge? Some remarks on the Rhetoric of Hobbes’ Leviathan

Saturday, November 23

9:00-9:45 Helke Panknin-Schappert (Mainz): John Locke und die Freiheit der Handlung

9:45-10:30 Riccarda Suitner (Erfurt/Gotha): Radical reformation, Natural Philosophy and Religious Dissent in the late Renaissance: the Case of the University of Padova

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Andree Hahmann (Göttingen): Gassendis Neo-Epikureian Psychology

11:45-12:30 Michael Jaworzyn (KU Leuven): Error and Sin in Arnold Geulincx’s Critique of Scholastic Philosophy

12:30-12:45 Coffee break

12:45-13:30 Han Thomas Adriaenssen (Groningen): The Scholastic Cartesianism of Robert Desgabets


Attendance it free, but please register at [email protected]