The 8th Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy at Heidelberg

The 8th Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy at Heidelberg

Early Modern Philosophy and Post-Kantian Philosophy

22–23 September 2025

Hegel-room, Philosophisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg

Schulgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg

In a joint effort by philosophers in Finland and Hungary, the Seminar was founded to promote international cooperation among scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy and later turned into a traveling event organized by different departments around Europe. The previous meeting was held in 2024 in Vienna at the Central European University. This will be the eighth meeting in a continuing series of seminars.

Monday, 22 September

Early Modern Philosophy

9.00 Welcome

9:15 Domenica Romagni (Colorado State): Descartes on the Perception of Aesthetic Properties

10.45 Antonio S. Borge (Nottingham): Spinoza on the Distinction between Modes and Propria

12.15 Andrei Fomenko (Harvard): Hume’s Notion of the Self in Book 2 of the Treatise 

14.45 Elena Gordon (Jyväskylä): Macaulay, Sympathy, and Feminism

16.15 Invited speaker: Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Tel Aviv): Self-Esteem and the Highest Good in Spinoza's Ethics.

17:45 Invited speaker: Karolina Hübner (UCLA): Spinoza on Consciousness (online)

20.00 Dinner

Tuesday, 23 September

Early Modern Philosophy and Post-Kantian Philosophy – Influences and Interconnections

10.00 Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere): Wolff’s Supertranscendental Conception of Ontology

11.30 Jason Yonover (Yale): Spinoza and Genealogy

14.00 Samuel Geiger (Vienna): Spinoza, Kant, and Schelling on freedom

15.30 Anton Kabeshkin (Potsdam): Hegel on the Concepts of Reality and God as the Supremely Real Being

17.00 Invited speaker: Johannes Haag (Potsdam): Kant’s Criticism of Hume in the Critique of the Power of Judgment

The conference is open to all. Due to limited seating, we kindly ask that you register in advance by emailing: [email protected]. The conference is generously supported by DFG.