Sensibility in the Early Modern Era

August 28, 2012 - August 29, 2012
Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney

Sydney
Australia

Sponsor(s):

  • Centre for the History of the Emotions, University of Sydney
  • School of Philosophy & Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney

Organisers:

Stephen Gaukroger
University of Sydney
Anik Waldow
University of Sydney

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Tuesday 28 August

10.00-11.15

Marina Bollinger

Universitry of Queensland
‘Sensibility and the Scottish Conjectural Historians’

Morning tea

11.30-12.45

Jessica Riskin

Stanford University
‘The Adventures of Mr. Machine: La Mettrie Goes to Berlin’

Lunch

2.00-3.15

Udo Thiel

University of Graz ‘Locke and sensibility’

3.15-4.30

Sorana Corneanu

University of Bucharest ‘Locke on epistemic emotions’

Wednesday 29 August

9.15-10.30

Stephen Gaukroger

University of Sydney ‘Anthropological medicine’

Morning tea

10.45-12.00

Laura Kotevska

University of Sydney
‘Adam Smith, theorist of language and moral philosopher.’

12.00-1.15

Martyn Lloyd

University of Queensland
‘“Je n’ai jamais vu une sensibilité comme la tienne, jamais une tête si délicieuse!”: Rousseau, Sade, and Embodied Epistemology.’

Lunch

2.15-3.30

Anik Waldow

University of Sydney
‘The Arti!ce of Human Nature. Hume, Rousseau, Herder’

3.30-4.45

Dalia Nassar

University of Sydney
‘Sensibility and Organism: from the Critique of Judgment to the Metamorphosis of Plants’

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