Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy IV

Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy IV

SCOTTISH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY IV

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

2-3 May 2013

Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 1 (room 706)

 

Organization:

Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen)

Mogens Lærke (CERPHI (UMR 5037), ENS de Lyon/University of Aberdeen)

 

The event is sponsored by:

The Scots Philosophical Association

The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (University of Aberdeen) Brill Academic Publishers

 

PROGRAM

Thursday, 2 May

9.15-9.30 Coffee and Welcome

Session I

9.30-10.15. Alissa MacMilllan (Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse), “A Linguistic Key to Hobbes on Religion”

10.15-11.00. Raffaela Santi (University of Urbino), “Geometry and Politics in the philosophical System of Hobbes”

11.00-11.15. Break

11.15-12.00. Stewart Duncan (University of Florida), “Toland and Locke in the Leibniz-Burnett Correspondence”

12.00-14.00. Lunch Break

Key Note

14.00-15.00. Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen), “Ficino on the philosopher persona and its demise in 18th-century philosophy”

15.00-15.30. Break

Session II

15.30-16.15. Matthew Kisner (University of South Carolina), “Spinoza on the Basis of Reason’s Dictates: Not so Common Notions”

16.15-17.00. Martin Lin (Rutgers University), “Spinoza’s Starting Points”

 

Friday, 3 May

9.15-9.30. Coffee

Session III

9.30-10.15. Sandrine Roux (University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne), “Another Way of Giving Sense to the Idea that we are not in our Bodies like a Pilot in a Ship: Descartes’ Conception of Voluntary Movements”

10.15-11.00. Anton Matytsin (University of Pennsylvania), “Anti-Skeptical Epistemology: The Challenge of Pyrrhonism and the Rise of Probability”

11.00-11.15. Break

11.15-12.00. Paul Lodge (Oxford University), “The Nature and Role of the Critique of Dogmatism in the Thought of Joseph Glanvil”

12.00-14.00. Lunch Break

Key Note

14.00-15.00. James Harris (University of St. Andrews), “Late Hume: Between Liberty and Authority”

15.00-15.30. Break

Session IV

15.30-16.15. Lisa Ievers (Auburn University), “Hume and Berkeley on the Nature of Philosophical Errors”

16.15-17.00. Emily Kelahan (Illinois Wesleyan University), “Hume’s Former opinions”

 

Registration is free but obligatory. Please note that all conference attendees must get a badge at the help desk of the Library in order to enter the building. We will, before the conference, communicate a list of attendees to the library personnel. Anyone wishing to attend the event must figure on that list. For further information, please contact Mogens Lærke on m.laerke@abdn.ac.uk or Beth Lord on s.b.lord@abdn.ac.uk.

Speaker

Various

Venue

Meeting Room 1 (Room 706), Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen