UW-Madison Spinoza Conference

Thursday, May 28

8:55am Opening Comments and Welcome

Steven Nadler, UW-Madison

9:00am-10:00am

Huimin Liu, Notre Dame

“The Partiality of Finite Minds: Spinoza on Error and Its

Overcoming”

10:15am-11:15am 

Vincent Navarro, UW-Madison

‘Oculis apertis somniant’: Spinoza on Madness and Superstition

11:30am-12:30pm

Brandon Smith, UW-Madison

“Stoic vs. Spinozistic Flourishing: Passion, Reason, and Therapy”

Lunch: 12:30pm-2:00pm 

2:00-3:00pm

Daniel Schneider, UW-La Crosse

"Scientia Intuitiva and Interpretatio Naturae. (Or, why our Sciences need a bit of

Spinoza)”

3:15-4:15pm

Michael Rosenthal, University of Toronto

“Passive Agency in Spinoza’s Theory of the Affects”

4:30-5:30pm

Sanem Soyarslan, North Carolina State University

Talk Title: “The Journey from Love of God to Love in God: Spinoza’s Triadic Account of Happiness”

Friday, May 29

9:00-10:00am

Kristin Primus, UC Berkeley

“Who are we as reasoners?”

10:15-11:15am 

Karolina Hübner, UCLA

“God's knowledge of new things”

11:30-12:30pm

Noa Lahav-Ayalon, Harvard

"Self-Knowledge and the Garden of Eden"

Lunch: 12:30-2:00pm 

2:00-3:00pm

Jacob Zellmer, UW-Madison

“Spinoza on Vivid Imagination and Prophetic Projection”

3:15-4:15pm

Mélanie Zappulla, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

"Spinoza's Ethics: Who Can Become Wise?"

4:30-5:30pm 

Daniel Garber, Princeton

“Salvation through Imagination in Spinoza’s TTP”