Being Human: The History of a Concept

SATURDAY, JUNE 10

10am Karolina Hübner (Toronto): Welcome

10:10-11:20am Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): “Human nature in Plato”

11:30am-12:40pm Edwin Filotas (South Dakota), for Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill) and Filotas: “Aristotle’s human beings”

2-3:10pm Luis Xavier Lope Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana): “Al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā on the nature of human and non-human animals”

3:20-4:30pm Marcy Lascano (California State, Long Beach) and Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam): “Human nature in Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell, and Emilie du Châtelet”

4:40-5:50pm Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt): “Spinoza on the good life for humans”

SUNDAY, JUNE 11

10-11:10am Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts): “Hobbes and Rousseau on human nature and the state of nature”

11:20am-12:30pm Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego): The transcendental human body in Kant and Fichte”

2-3:10pm Kate Withy (Georgetown): “Open to Encounter: Heidegger on being us”

3:20-4:30pm Denis Walsh (Toronto): “Being Homo sapiens and being human”

4:40-5:50pm Eric T. Olson (Sheffield): “Metaphysics of transhumanism”

The event is free and open to the public. No registration required.

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