Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (I)

January 29, 2014 - January 30, 2014
Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History of Philosophy, University of Groningen

Harmonie Complex, Room 1313.0309
Oude Kijk In’t Jatstraat
Groningen
Netherlands

Speakers:

Ursula Renz
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Eric Schliesser
University of Ghent

Organisers:

Martin Lenz
University of Groningen
Andrea Sangiacomo
University of Groningen

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We are pleased to announce the first meeting of the Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. It aims at bringing together advanced students and scholars working on Early Modern Philosophy (broadly conceived, ranging from the later scholastics to Kant). Following similar models of workshops, we hope to stimulate further exchange and collaboration on various topics in the field.

There are no fees for registration. Attendance is free and most welcome.

Contacts: Martin Lenz ([email protected]) and Andrea Sangiacomo ([email protected])

Program:

First Day (jan. 29)

9.00 Keith Fennen (Miami University OH): Charity and Generosity in Descartes’

Passions of the Soul

10.00 Keith Green (East Tennessee): Spinoza on Self-Consciousness and Self-Knowledge

Coffee Break

11.15 Francesca Rebasti (Università Statale di Milano – EHESS Paris): The Problem of

Conscience in Thomas Hobbes's Political Theology

12.15 Anselm Oelze (HU Berlin): Hobbes’ Nominalism Revisited

Lunch

15.00 Jennifer Marusic (Brandeis University): Locke on Judgment, Truth, and the

Possibility of Misrepresentation

16.00 Richard Fry (Georgetown): Locke’s Account of Animal Reasoning

Coffee Break

16.15 Claudia Dumitru (Bucharest): Crucial Experiments and Demonstrative Induction in

Newton's New Theory about Light and Colors

17.15 First Keynote Address: Eric Schliesser (Ghent): Necessity and Newton's Polemics

with Spinoza

19.30 Dinner

Second Day (jan. 30)

9.00 Osvaldo Ottaviani (SNS di Pisa): Leibniz’s Argument for the Uniqueness of the

Actual World

10.00 Sylvia Pauw (Amsterdam): Logic and Ontology in Kant’s Metaphysics: The Case of

the Categories of Quantity

Coffee break

10.15 Cody Staton (Leuven): Kant, Spinoza, and the Problem of Teleology

11.15 Second Keynote Address: Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt): TBA

13.00 End of the Seminar

Location

The conference will be held at the Harmonie Complex, Oude Kijk In’t Jatstraat (Room 1313.0309 – see picture below), in the center of Groningen, Which is at a walking distance (approximately 15 minutes) from Groningen central station.

For further information: http://www.philos.rug.nl/Dutch%20Seminar/

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