Varieties of Early Modern Materialism

Announcing an international conference on early modern materialism at the
University on Mainz.


*VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN MATERIALISM*

Philosophisches Seminar
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
June 19-21, 2014
Senatssaal (7th floor, Becherweg 21, Mainz)

Attendance is free, but please register with [email protected].

PROGRAM

Thursday, June 19, 2014

13:30-14:00 Welcome

I The roots of the debate in seventeenth-century philosophy

14:00-15:00 Patricia Springborg (Bolzano): Hobbes and Materialism

15:00-16:00 Ann Thomson (Florence/Paris): Epicureans and Mortalists in Late
Seventeenth-Century England

16:30-17:30 Joshua Wood (Amherst College): Locke on Activity in Matter

17:30-18:30 Stewart Duncan (Florida): Margaret Cavendish, Materialism, and
the Soul

Friday, June 20, 2014

II At the turn of the century

9:30-10:30 Winfried Schröder (Marburg): Materialistic Alternatives to the
Theistic Doctrine of Creation in the 17th and 18th Centuries

10:30-11:30 Paola Rumore (Turin): Mechanicism and Materialism in Early
Modern German Philosophy

12:00-13:00 Corey W. Dyck (Western Ontario): The Threat of Materialism in
Early German Philosophy

III Mid- eighteenth and later eighteenth century developments

14:00-15:00 Sophie Audidière (Dijon): Criticism of Metaphysics and
Consitution of the Subject: Materialist Effects in the Philosophy of
Helvétius and d’Holbach

15:00-16:00 Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent): Body, Soul and Brain in Diderot’s
Materialism

16:30-17:30 Timo Kaitaro (Helsinki): Eighteenth-century French Materialism
Clockwise and Anticlockwise

17:30-18:30 Catherine Wilson (York): Buffon On Nature; Materialism without
Metaphysics and its Influence on Hume

Saturday, June 21, 2014

09:30-10:30 Udo Thiel (Graz): Materialism and Subjectivity in Eigtheenth
Century Philosophy

10:30-11:30 Falk Wunderlich (Mainz): From August Wilhelm Hupel to Karl von
Knoblauch. German Materialism in the 1770s and 1780s

12:00-13:00 Eric Watkins (San Diego): Kant on Materialism