This is a past event
The event is sponsored by:
The Scots Philosophical Association
The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (University of Aberdeen)
Brill Academic Publishers
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. Raffaella Santi (UniversityofUrbino), “Geometry and Politics in the philosophical System of Hobbes”
11.00-11.15. Break
11.15-12.00. Stewart Duncan (UniversityofFlorida), “Toland and Locke in the Leibniz-Burnett Correspondence”
12.00-14.00. Lunch Break
Key Note
14.00-15.00. Leo Catana (UniversityofCopenhagen), “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 (RutgersUniversity), “Spinoza’s Starting Points”
Friday, 3 May
9.15-9.30. Coffee
Session III
9.30-10.15. Sandrine Roux (UniversityofParis 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 (UniversityofPennsylvania), “Anti-Skeptical Epistemology: The Challenge of Pyrrhonism and the Rise of Probability”
11.00-11.15. Break
11.15-12.00. Paul Lodge (OxfordUniversity), “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 (UniversityofSt. Andrews), “Late Hume: BetweenLibertyand Authority”
15.00-15.30. Break
Session IV
15.30-16.15. Lisa Ievers (AuburnUniversity), “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
- Hosted by
- Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), Mogens Laerke (CERPHI (UMR 5037), ENS de Lyon/University of Aberdeen)
- Venue
- Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 1 (room 706)
- Contact
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For further information, please contact Mogens Lærke on m.laerke@abdn.ac.uk or Beth Lord on s.b.lord@abdn.ac.uk.