Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy - 'Philosophy of/and Education'

Schedule of Talks

Monday March 13
9.00-9.30 - Registration and coffee

9.30-10.30 ‘Spinozan Pedagogy.’
Julie Klein (Villanova University)

10.30-11.30
‘Locke on Habit and Experience in the Formation of the Self.’
Anik Waldow (University of Sydney)

11.30-12.00 – Break

12.00-1.00 
‘Domesticating Descartes: Johann Clauberg’s Scholasticization of the New Science.’
Nabeel Hamid (University of Pennsylvania)

1.00-2.30 - LUNCH

2.30-3.30 ‘Adam Smith’s Remarks on Education.’
Anna Markwart (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)

3.30-4.30
‘Music as Moral Authenticity: Reinstating the Role of Music in Rousseau’s Philosophy of Education.’
Valerie Kuzmina (University of Ottawa)

4.30-5.00 - Break

5.00-6.00
‘Emilie Du Châtelet on Education and Women's Minds.’
Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday March 14
9.00-9.30 -- Coffee

9.30-10.30 ‘Going to School with Luther: 18th–Century German Philosophical Conceptions of the Modern University and Their Lutheran Heritage.’
Lim Lung Chieh (University of Ottawa)

10.30-11.30
‘The Socratic Pedagogy of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.’
Sergio A. Gallegos (Metropolitan St. University of Denver) & Adriana Clavel (University of Sheffield)

11.30-12.00 – Break

12.00-1.00
‘”For the Want Whereof This Nation Perishes”: John Milton on Education.’ Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford)

1.00-2.30 - LUNCH

2.30-3.30 
‘Shifting Epistemic Authority and the Role of Education.’
Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)