Manifestations

Séminaire « Scottish Seminar » 2024
In Early Modern Philosophy XII

Organisers : James Harris (St. Andrews), Mara van der Lugt (St. Andrews), Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews), Mogens Lærke (IHRIM, ENS de Lyon / MFO Oxford)

Keynote speakers : Susan James (Birkbeck) and Michael Gill (Edinburgh)

SSEMP XII is the twelfth edition of a yearly international workshop that brings together established scholars, young researchers and advanced graduate students working in the field of Early Modern Philosophy. SSEMP welcomes papers on any topic in early modern philosophy (broadly defined to mean pre-Kantian philosophy ranging from late Renaissance philosophy to the early Enlightenment). We particularly encourage proposals which consider early modern philosophy in relation to related disciplines, such as theology, the history of literature, intellectual history and the history of science. SSEMP is conceived as a forum where established academics, early career researchers, and advanced PhD students can meet. We make an effort to assure a reasonable gender balance.

Submissions for the regular program should include a max. 300-word abstract + contact information gathered in A SINGLE PDF-FILE named : “surname.short-title.pdf.” Graduate students submitting to the regular program should include contact information for one referee (typically the supervisor). Please DO NOT blind submissions or submit multiple files. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 December 2023. They should be sent by email to Mogens Lærke on mogens.laerke chez cnrs.fr. Due to very high numbers of submissions we cannot undertake to respond individually to all submissions. Applicants who have not been contacted by 15 January 2024 should consider their submission declined.

Please note that SSEMP cannot provide funding for travel or accommodation for speakers. We expect to be able to offer lunches and a conference dinner free of charge. SSEMP XII will begin on 9 May, 11am, and finish on 10 May, 4pm.

The SSEMP XII is organised in collaboration between the Philosophy Department at the University of St. Andrews and the ERC project NOTCOM (ERC AdG 101052433) at the Maison Française d’Oxford / IHRIM, ENS de Lyon.

Séminaire « Scottish Seminar » 2023
In Early Modern Philosophy XI

Organisers :
James Harris (University of St. Andrews)
Mogens Lærke (CNRS-IHRIM 5317, ENS de Lyon)

Sponsors :
Philosophy Department, University of St. Andrews, Scottish Philosophical Association, British Society for the History of Philosophy, IHRIM UMR 5317, ENS de Lyon

Séminaire « Scottish Seminar » 2019
In Early Modern Philosophy X

Organisers :
James Harris (University of St. Andrews)
Mogens Lærke (CNRS-IHRIM 5317, ENS de Lyon)

Sponsors :
Philosophy Department, University of St. Andrews, Scottish Philosophical Association, British Society for the History of Philosophy, IHRIM UMR 5317, ENS de Lyon

Séminaire « Scottish Seminar » 2018
In Early Modern Philosophy IX

Contact : Mogens Lærke

Organisation :
Dr. Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen) ; Dr. Mogens Lærke (CNRS, IHRIM, ENS de Lyon)

Key note speakers :
Felicity Green (University of Edinburgh) ; Martin Lenz (University of Groningen)

Sponsors :
British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), Scottish Philosophical Association (SPA), University of Aberdeen, IHRIM (CNRS, UMR 5317), ENS de Lyon

Séminaire « Scottish Seminar » 2017
In Early Modern Philosophy VIII

Organisation :
Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh)
Mogens Lærke (IHRIM, CNRS, ENS de Lyon)

University of Edinburgh
Key note speakers : Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen) Peter Millican (Oxford University)

PROGRAMME

Monday 10 April
8.45 Welcome

Session 1 : Leibniz
9.00-9.45 Norma D. Goethe (Cordoba), “Leibniz on the Value of Learning from Exploratory Research”
9.45-10.30 Carlos Portales (Edinburgh), “Leibniz’s Modal Metaphysics as Ground for Nature’s Objective Aesthetic Value”

10.30-10.45 Break

Session 2 : Addison
10.45-11.30 Endre Szcésényi (Aberdeen), “The Birth of Modern Aesthetics from Spiritual Exercises”
11.30-12.15 Monica Uribe (Guanajuato), “Taste and Imagination in Addison’s Aesthetic Thought”

12.15-13.45 Lunch

Key Note Speaker
13.45-14.45 Beth Lord (Aberdeen), “Spinoza on Pride and Despondency”

14.45-15.00 Break

Session 3 : Hobbes and Spinoza
15.00-15.45 Francesca Rebasti (ENS de Lyon), “Reshaping Liberty of Conscience : Hobbes’s Heterodox Exegesis of the Gloss on Romans 14:23”
15.45-16.30 José Maria Sanchez de Leon (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), “Spinoza on Common Notions and the Order of Philosophizing”
16.30-16.45 Break
SSEMP Essay Prize Winner
16.45-17.45 Kathrine Cuccuru (UCL), “Style over Substance ? Literary Criticism and the Origins of the British Philosophical Sublime”

Tuesday 11 April

Session 4 : Trotter, Masham, Locke
9.00-9.45 Simone Webb (UCL), “Self-Revelation and Sociability : Reading Damaris Masham’s Letters to John Locke as Philosophical Autobiography”
9.45-10.30 Emilio Maria de Tommaso (Calabria), “The True Grounds of Morality in Catharine Trotter’s Defence of Mr. Locke’s Essay”

10.30-10.45 Break

Session 5 : Descartes
10.45-11.30 Andrea Christofidou (Keble College, Oxford), “Descartes on the Mind-Body Relation : A Solution ?”
11.30-12.15 Christian Barth (Humboldt University, Berlin), “Cognitio interna and Conscientia in Descartes’ Conception of the Mind”

12.15-13.45 Lunch

Key Note Speaker
13.45-14.45 Peter Millican (Oxford), “Logic, Scepticism, and Egoism : Why Hume Disowned the Treatise of Human Nature”

14.45-15.00 Break

Session 6 : Locke, Shaftesbury, Huygens
15.00-15.45 Tim Stuart-Buttle (Cambridge), “Locke on the ‘Two Provinces of Knowledg’”
15.45-16.30 Christian Maurer (Lausanne), Shaftesbury’s Manuscript Pathologia. Stoicism, the Passions and Virtue”
16.30-16.45 Break
16.45-17.30 Miguel Palomo (Sevilla), “Christiaan Huygens, the Observer of the Cosmos”

Funding :
Scottish Philosophical Association (SPA)
British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP)
Edinburgh University
IHRIM (CNRS, UMR 5317), ENS de Lyon

Séminaire « Scottish Seminar » 2016
In Early Modern Philosophy VII

Organizers
Dr. James Harris (University of St Andrews)
Dr. Mogens Lærke (CNRS, ENS de Lyon)

The SSEMP VII is the seventh edition of a yearly event that brings together established scholars, young researchers and advanced graduate students working in the field of early modern philosophy. The aim is to foster scholarly exchange among the different generations of academics in the UK and to strengthen international collaboration.

Key Note Speakers : Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge), Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham)

Sponsors

The Scots Philosophical Association
Philosophy Department, St. Andrews
Institute of Intellectual History, St Andrews
Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (UMR 5317), ENS de Lyon

Please note that the SSEMP cannot provide funding for travel or accommodation for speakers.