Agency in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 27 September 2018

Venue: National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square East, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2

9:15–9:30        Welcome

9:30–11:00      Julie Walsh (Wellesley College), “Gabrielle Suchon, Freedom, and the Neutral Life”

Commentator: Katherine O’Donnell (University College Dublin)

11:00–11:15    Tea & Coffee Break

11:15–12:45    Nicholas Vallone (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Cartesian Agency: Persons, Volitions, and Actions in Descartes' Philosophy”

Commentator: Vili Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki)

12:45–2:30      Lunch Break

2:30–4:00        Stefan Storrie (Independent Scholar), “On the reasons for Locke’s second edition change of mind about human action and freedom”

Commentator: Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)

4:00–4:15        Tea & Coffee Break

4:15–5:45        Keynote talk: Jacqueline Broad (Monash University), “Selfhood and Self-government in Women’s Devotional Writings of the Early Modern Period”

Commentator: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin)

Friday, 28 September 2018

Venue: School of Philosophy, D522 Agnes Cuming Seminar Room, Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4

9:30–11:00      Daniel Schneider (University of Haifa), “Spinoza, Borges and Frankfurt cases: A Necessitarian theory of Agency”

Commentator: Jack Stetter (University Paris 8)

11:00–11:15    Tea & Coffee Break

11:15–12:45    Jonathan Head (Keele University), “Anne Conway and Henry More on Divine and Human Freedom”

Commentator: Alissa MacMillan (University of Antwerp)

12:45–2:15      Lunch Break

2:15–3:45        Matthew Leisinger (University of Cambridge), “The Role of Desire in Cudworth’s Account of Human Agency”

Commentator: Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

3:45–4:00        Tea & Coffee Break

4:00–5:30        Patricia Sheridan (University of Guelph), “Agency, Virtue, and Fitness in the Moral Philosophies of Damaris Masham and Catharine Trotter Cockburn”

Commentator: Kenneth Pearce (Trinity College Dublin)