Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
The 12th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy on August 21-22 is hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at University of Gothenburg in August.
Venue: T219 at Olof Wijksgatan 6. Welcome!
Attendance is free. Everyone who is interested is welcome, but please send an email to the organizer (before 15 August) if you intend to come. Organizer is Frans Svensson, frans.svensson@gu.se
Speakers:
Deborah Brown University of Queensland:
Love actualized: Descartes and Individualism
Kasper Kristensson Uppsala University:
Reason and Imagination in Spinoza’s Ethics
Hemmo Laiho University of Turku:
Hume and Kant on the Normative Ground of Taste
Aino Lahdenranta University of Jyväskylä:
Evading Hume’s Circle: Smith on Negative Virtue
Katariina Lipsanen University of Jyväskylä:
Holistic Interpretation Approach to Spinoza: A Case Study on Methodological Debate between Daniel Garber and Michael Della Rocca
Vili Lähteenmäki University of Helsinki:
Locke’s Subject of Experience
Ville Paukkonen University of Helsinki:
’I know what I mean when I affirm that there is a spiritual substance or support of ideas, that is, that a spirit knows and perceives ideas’. Berkeley’s proto-‘expressivist’ theory of self-knowledge and mind in Alciphron VII
Ryan Quandt University of South Florida:
Securities of Reason: Leibniz's criticisms of the Moderns in 1686
Alexander Stöpfgeshoff Uppsala University:
Anne Conway on the Infinite
Schedule – 21 August
10.30-11.30 Vili Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki): "Locke’s Subject of Experience"
11.30-12.30 Ville Paukkonen (University of Helsinki): ”Berkeley’s proto-‘expressivist’ theory of self-knowledge and mind in Alciphron VII”
Lunch break
13.45-14.45 Ryan Quandt (University of South Florida): Securities of Reason: Leibniz's criticisms of the Moderns in 1686"
15.00-16.00 Katariina Lipsanen (University of Jyväskylä): “Holistic Interpretation Approach to Spinoza: A Case Study on Methodological Debate between Daniel Garber and Michael Della Rocca”
16.15-17.15 Calvin Normore (UCLA): “Hobbes and the Circle”
Schedule – 22 August
9.30-10.30 Deborah Brown (University of Queensland): “Love Actualized: Descartes and Individualism”
10.30-11.30 Kasper Kristensson (Uppsala University): ”Reason and Imagination in Spinoza’s Ethics”
Lunch break
13.00-14.00 Alexander Stöpfgeshoff (Uppsala University): ”Anne Conway on the Infinite”
14.15-15.15 Aino Lahdenranta (University of Jyväskylä): “Evading Hume’s Circle: Smith on Negative Virtue”
15.15-16.15 Hemmo Laiho (University of Turku): ”Hume and Kant on the Normative Ground of Taste”