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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

5-6 March 2010

Divinity School Library, University of Aberdeen

Keynote Speakers:

Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
Pauline Phemister (University of Edinburgh)

Organisation:

Mogens Lærke (University of Aberdeen)
Stephen Gaukroger (University of Aberdeen / Sydney University)

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Programme

Friday, March 5th

09.30-10.00	Welcome
10.00-11.00	John Whipple (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Malebranche and Descartes on Mind-Body Distinction”
11.00-12.00	Delphine Kolesnik (École Normale Supérieure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon), “What does it mean to study man ‘as a physicist?’ Regius and Descartes”
12.00-14.00	Lunch at Zeste
14.00-15.00	Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia University, Montreal), “Leibniz’s anti-vitalism”
15.00-16.00	Julie Henry (École Normale Supérieure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon), “How does a child become a man? Descartes, Spinoza”
16.00-16.30	Coffee
16.30-17.30	Keynote speaker. Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen), “Metaphysics and the sciences of life: Descartes and Leibniz”

Saturday, March 6th

10.00-11.00	Angelica Nuzzo (City University of New York), “The relation between body and mind in Spinoza’s ‘Intellectual love of God’ (Ethica V P33-39)”
11.00-12.00	Martine Pécharman (CNRS, Paris / Oxford University), “The Moral Psychology of Ralph Cudworth: What Place for Sympathy?”
12.00-13.30	Light Lunch
13.30-14.30	Ohad Nachtomy (Fordham University, New York), “Uniqueness, Unity and Infinity in Spinoza and Leibniz”
14.30-15.30	Noa Shein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Newton's anti-Cartesian space"
15.30-16.00	Coffee
16.00-17.00	Keynote speaker. Pauline Phemister (University of Edinburgh), "Occasionalism, pre-established harmony and the organisation of the body"

The SSEMP is generously funded by the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass) and by the Scots Philosophical Association (http://www.scotsphil.org.uk). There is no registration or fee. All are welcome to attend.

Practical Information for Participants

The conference will take place in the Library of the Divinity School in King’s College. For a campus map, see: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/vcampus/kings/index.shtml (King’s College is listed as number 28).

The University of Aberdeen campus is situated in Old Aberdeen about a mile north of the city centre. There are no hotels in Old Aberdeen, but the campus is well-connected to the city centre by bus (see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/vcampus/kings/bus.shtml).

For participants arriving by plane at Aberdeen Airport (ABZ), it is most convenient to take a taxi to your hotel. It should take approximately 20 minutes and cost around £20.

Please make sure to book your accommodation well in advance. Note that the SSEMP does not cover expenses for travel and accommodation. There are numerous hotels in the city centre, most situated in the vicinity of Union Street, the main street of Aberdeen. The following two hotels, however, are conveniently situated for both the University (15-20 minute walk) and the City Centre (5 minute walk).

Premier Inn	Holiday Inn Express
Inverlair House West North Street Aberdeen AB24 5AS United Kingdom Ph. +44 (0) 870 990 6300 http://www.premierinn.com	Aberdeen City Centre Chapel Street Aberdeen AB10 1SQ United Kingdom Ph. +44 (0) 1224 623500 http://hiexpress.com

If you have any questions or enquiries, please contact me on m.laerke@abdn.ac.uk. In case you experience problems on arrival, call me on my cell phone: +44 (0) 7928234370.

We look forward to seeing you all in Scotland for this first edition of the SSEMP.

Mogens Lærke

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