Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy: The NYC Workshop in Jerusalem

June 19, 2016 - June 20, 2016
Bar-Ilan University, Van Leer Institute, Spinoza Center

43 Jabotinsky Street
Jerusalem 9104001
Israel

Speakers:

Igor Agostini
University of Salento
Maria Rosa Antognazza
King's College London
Raffaele Carbone
Federico II University Naples/ENS Lyon
Giuliana Di Biase
University "G. d'Annunzio," Chieti
(unaffiliated)
Macalester College
Brown University
Pini Ifergan
Bar-Ilan University/Spinoza Center
Yitzhak Melamed
Johns Hopkins University
Noa Naaman-Zauderer
Tel Aviv University
Ohad Nachtomy
Bar-Ilan University
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Anat Schechtman
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Texas at Austin
Noa Shein
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sanja Särman
University of Hong Kong
Olivér István Tóth
Ëotvös Loránd University
Reed Winegar
Fordham University/Freie Universität Berlin

Organisers:

Pini Ifergan
Bar-Ilan University/Spinoza Center
Ohad Nachtomy
Bar-Ilan University
Reed Winegar
Fordham University/Freie Universität Berlin

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Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy: The NYC Workshop in Jerusalem:
 
 
Sunday June 19th
 
9:30–10:00 Coffee and Welcome
 
10:00-11:00 Paul Guyer (Brown University) – “The Myth of the Infinite Given Magnitude”
 
11:00-11:45 Igor Agostini (Università del Salento) – “The Scholastic Background to Descartes’s Notion of ens summe perfectum et infinitum
 
11:45-12:30 Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin, Madison) – “Descartes on the Infinite and the Indefinite: A Reappraisal”
 
12:30-2:00 Lunch
 
2:00-2:45 Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College) – “Descartes on the Infinity of Space vs. Time”
 
2:45-3:30 Raffaele Carbone (Federico II University Naples/ENS de Lyon) – “The Infinite in Malebranche: Between Metaphysics and Mathematics”
 
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
 
4:00-4:45 Giuliana Di Biase (University "G. d'Annunzio," Chieti) – “God’s Infinity in the Dispute between John Locke and Johannes Hudde”
 
4:45-5:45 Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Johns Hopkins University) – “Infinity in Hobbes and Locke”
 
 
Monday June 20th
 
9:00–9:15 Coffee
 
9:15–10:15 Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College London) – “Leibniz on the Hypercategorematic Infinite”
 
10:15 -11:00 Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University) – “Comments on Antognazza: Finite and Infinite Aspects in Leibniz’s view of Created Beings”
 
11:00- 11:15 – Coffee Break
 
11:15-12:00 Olivér István Tóth (Eötvös Loránd University) – “The Averroist Legacy in Spinoza’s Doctrine of the Infinite Intellect”
 
12:00-12:45 Noa Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) – “Spinoza’s Infinite Substance and Finite Modes: The Priority of 'Conceiving Through' over 'Following From’”
 
12:45–2:00 Lunch
 
2:00–2:45 Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Tel Aviv University) – “Experiencing the Infinite: The Imago Dei Doctrine in Descartes and Spinoza”
 
2:45–3:30 Sanja Särman (Hong Kong University) – “Spinoza’s Theology of the Infinite and its Role in the Love of Fate”
 
3:30–4:00 Coffee Break
 
4:00–4:45 Reed Winegar (Fordham University/Freie Universität Berlin) – “Infinity in Kant”
 
4:45-5:30 Pini Ifergan (Bar-Ilan University) – “The Category of Infinity and its Uses in Hegel”
 

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