Twenty-Third Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 2026

Twenty-Third Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy,

July 08 – 10, 2026.

Held in Room 1130, Marian McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Ave., Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Wednesday, July 08.

9:00 am, ADT (Atlantic Daylight Time)

Joseph Adler, University of Tennessee

"Spinoza and Christian Thought: The Case of Christophorous Sandius"

10:30 am Erica Ferg and Bryan, Hall Regis University

"Spinoza and the Limits of Toleration"

12:00, LUNCH, Room 1142, Dept. Lounge

1:00 pm

Kay Bischof, University of Jerusalem,

"The Specter of Spinozism in Descartes’ Meditations"

2:30 pm

Antonio Borge, University of Nottingham

"Towards an Objectivist Reading of Spinoza’s Panpsychism"

4:00 pm

Thomas Vinci, Dalhousie University

"Anne Conway’s Theory of Vision: A Modern, Quantum Theoretical Interpretation"

Thursday, July 09

9:00 am

Jeff Edwards, SUNY, Stoneybrook

"Kant on Imperfect Duties"

10:30 am

Nicholas Dunn, University of Lethbridge

"Judgment, Latitude and Kant’s Distinction between Perfect and Imperfect Duties"

12:00, LUNCH, Room 1142, Dept. Lounge

1:00 pm

Raimundo Cox, University of Pittsburgh

"Kant’s Theory of Moral Intelligibility"

2:30

Aman Sakhardande, University of Toronto

"Is Time an A Priori Representation: Locke Contra Kant"

4:00 pm

Liam Dempsey, Kwantlen Polytechnical University

"Newton on God, Space and Matter: Four Spectres of Irreligion"

Friday, July 10

9:00 am

Carl Abrahamsen, New York University

"Adam Smith on the Love of Praiseworthiness and the Internalized Other"

10:30 am

Matthew Leisinger, York University

"Cudworth on Indifference"

12:00, LUNCH, Room 1142, Dept. Lounge

1:00 pm

Regina Hurley, SUNY,  Buffalo

"The Impassioned Intellect: the Practical Aim of Descartes’s Meditations."

3:00 pm

(Joint with the Philosophy Department’s Friday Seminar)

Kevin Busch, Claremont McKenna College

"A Problem for Humean Modality"

7:00 pm

Conference Banquet

Location: TBA

The website of the conference is linked to the homepage of the Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University. Its’ URL is: https://www.dal.ca/sites/acsemp.html .

Mailing Address:

Professor Tom Vinci (Ret’d)

Department of Philosophy

Dalhousie University

6135 University Ave, Rm. 1142

Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.

Dept phone: 902 494 3510

Fax: 902 494-3518

Cell:  902 880 8919

Email address: [email protected]

Zoom Link: Contact Professor Vinci