Hopkins Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

We are delighted to announce the second annual meeting of the Hopkins Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, scheduled to take place at the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on December 8th-9th, 2024.

Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is required.  If you would like to attend please contact Patrick Connolly ([email protected]).  Any further questions or requests for information can also be directed to Patrick Connolly.

Sunday, December 8

Gilman Hall, Room 288

9:00-10:00

Hüseyin Güngör (Princeton): Ghazalian Implication without Necessity

10:00-11:00

Farhad Alavi (Edinburgh): Hume's Ontological Commitment: The Necessity of Arithmetic Propositions  *presented via Zoom*

11:00-11:30

Break

11:30-12:30

Sophie Macdonald (Svizzera Italiana): Can we Have True Ideas of Mathematical Propositions in Spinoza?

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:30

Elena Comay del Junco (Connecticut): Love in Ibn Sina

2:30-3:30

Ariel Malachi (Bar-Ilan): Where No Maimonidean Has Gone Before? Radical and Ultra-Radical Allegorical Exegesis in Medieval Jewish Philosophy in Yemen

3:30-4:00

Break

4:30-6:00

Keynote: Hashem Morvarid (Johns Hopkins): Avicenna on the Essence-Existence Distinction

Monday, December 9

Gilman Hall, Room 288

8:00-9:00

Niccoló Fioravanti (Salento/Cologne) and Giulio Conidi (Salento/Cologne): The Naturalization of Innatism: A Leibnizian Strategy and its Historical Roots

9:00-10:00

Jen Nguyen (Bucknell): Leibniz’s Co-Perception Account of Quantity

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-11:30

Jacob Sheehan (Yale) and Henry Straughan (Yale): Images and Illusions: Du Chatelet's Theory of the Imagination

11:30-12:30

Michael Cevering (St. Louis): Oneness and Moral Obligation: An East-West Trialogue

12:30-1:45

Lunch – Gilman 288

1:45-2:45

Simona Vucu (Toronto): Christine de Pizan on Vices

2:45-4:15

Keynote: Michael Della Rocca (Yale): Humeanism in Spinoza and in Hume: Some Pathologies

 The organizers would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support provided by the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe.