Hopkins Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Hopkins Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
December 10-11, 2023
Homewood Campus, Johns Hopkins University

Sunday, December 10

9:00-10:45

Keynote: Daniel Garber (Princeton): Title TBD

10:45-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:00

Jason Yonover (Princeton): Maimonides and Spinoza on Error

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:00

Zachary Candy (LMU Munich): Doubts on the Summa Genera: Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī and Suhrawardī’s Critique of the Non-Univocity of Existence (Presented on Zoom)

2:00-3:00

Reza Hadisi (Toronto): Tūsī’s naturalist perfectionism in the Nāserian Ethics

3:00-3:30

Coffee

3:30-4:30

Evan Thomas (Otterbein): Different Knowledges in Different Kinds and Sorts of Creatures: Cavendish Against Descartes on Animal Minds

4:30-5:30

Louise Daoust (Eckerd): Indirectness and Immediacy: Mary Shepherd’s Theory of Perception (Presented on Zoom)

Dinner (details TBD)

Monday, December 11
8:00-9:00

Lu Jiang (Sun Yat-Sen): Jesuit Psychology of the 16-17th Century and its Transmission in China (Presented on Zoom)

9:00-10:00

Harvey Lederman (Texas): Wang Yangming on Principles and Things

10:00-10:30

Coffee

10:30-11:30

Domenica Romagni (Colorado State): "The circle… a true image of the created mind”: Kepler’s Geometrical Philosophy of Mind

11:30-12:30

David Marshall Miller (Auburn): Making Science Mathematical: Catena and the Quaestio de Certitudine

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:30

Penelope Haulotte (New Mexico): Lessing’s Pantheism: Thinking the Contingency of God

2:30-4:15

Keynote: Qiu Lin (Simon Fraser): Wang Daiyu on the Non-Ultimate (wuji 无极) and the Great-Ultimate (taiji 太极): An Islamic Makeover

            Dinner (details TBD)