7th Nordic Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy

7th Nordic Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy
Umeå, Sweden
June 11-12, 2014

Contact and info: [email protected]

PROGRAM

Wednesday June 11

9.45 – 10.15 Welcome, coffee or tea

10.15 - 11.15 Jan Forsman, University of Tampere “Cartesian epoché – suspension of judgement and the wax in Meditations.”

11.15 – 12.15 Jo Van Cauter, Ghent University “Another hidden dialogue in the ‘Tractatus’: Spinoza on ‘Christ’s disciples’ and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)”

12.15 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.30 Stefan Storrie, Trinity College, Dublin "Berkeley on moral obligation"

14.30 - 15.30 Aino Lahdenranta, University of Jyväskylä "Francis Hutcheson on moral motivation"

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee or Tea

16.00 - 17.00 Jonas Olson, Stockholm University “Hume’s objection to Smith’s account of sympathy reconsidered”

17.00 – 18.00 Åsa, Carlson, Gävle University “Hume and the passions” 19.30 Dinner downtown (on participants own expense)

Thursday 12 juni

9.00 - 10.00 Roomet Jakapi, University of Tartu “Henry More on the Cognitive Abilities of Separated Souls”

10.00 – 10.15 Tea or coffee

10.15 – 11.15 Matias Slavov, University of Jyväskylä: “Can space and time be ‘conceived solely with reference to objects of sense perception’? - Newton's absolutism and Hume's relationism”

11.15 - 12.15 Corey van Dyck, University of Western Ontario "Locke, Wolff, and Kant on the Concept of Person"

12.15 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.30 Sabrina Ebbermeyer, University of Copenhagen ”Leibniz and Telesio on the metaphysics of the living being”

14.30 – 15.00 Tea or coffee

15.00 – 16.00 Hemmo Laiho, University of Turku: "On Aesthetic Distinctness"

16.00 - 17.00 Marcel Quarfood, Stockholm University “Kant’s Theory of Modality: Hexagon or Octagon?”

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