Exercises in Early Modern Thought – Philosophy, Arts, Science, Theology, Politics
Organisation : Mogens LÆRKE (IHRIM/MFO) and Nuno CASTEL-BRANCO (All Souls College, Oxford)
(GMT)
Wednesday 19 November (MFO)
13h30 Stéphane van Damme, director of the MFO
Welcome
Session 1. Chair : Mogens LÆRKE (CNRS-IHRIM, Lyon / MFO, Oxford)
14h00 Susan JAMES (Birkbeck/Kings College London)
« _Margaret Cavendish on Natural Philosophy and Poetry. »
14h45 Eric SHENG (Merton, Oxford)
« Gassendi’s Arguments for Hedonism. »
Session 2. Chair : Louis ROUQUAYROL (CNRS-IHRIM, Lyon)
16h00 Philip BEELEY (Linacre, Oxford)
« John Pell and the Advancement of Mathematical Learning in Seventeenth-Century England. »
16h45 David BARTHA (Birmingham Newman University)
« Animal Souls and Immortality in the Browne–Baxter Debate. »
Thursday 20 November (MFO)
Session 3. Chair : Niall DILUCIA (CNRS / MFO, Oxford)
9h00 Odile PANETTA (Aarhus U. / Christ Church, Oxford)
« Dutch Reformed Universities and the Debate over the Ius circa sacra. »
9h45 Daniel PEDERSEN (U. of Aberdeen)
« Seventeenth-Century Theologians Against the Clear and Distinct Knowledge of God. »
Session 4. Chair : Noel MALCOLM (All Souls, Oxford)
11h00 Sarah MORTIMER (Christ Church, Oxford)
« Freedom, Miracles, and Revelation : The Remonstrants and Spinoza. »
11h45 Olivier YASAR DE FRANCE (Pembroke, Oxford)
« Spinoza and the Rights of Peace. »
Session 5. Chair : Paul LODGE (Mansfield, Oxford)
14h00 Eric SCHLIESSER (U. of Amsterdam / Tulane U., New Orleans)
Huygens (and Newton, of Course !) : « Some Awkward Observations about Causal Isolation and Simultaneity. »
14h45 Yoav BEIRACH (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
« “Something of Imitation, That is Not Easily Removed” : Huygens and Leibniz on Time Measurement. »
Friday 21 November (MFO)
Session 6. Chair : Nuno CASTEL-BRANCO (All Souls, Oxford)
9h00 Robert ILIFFE (Linacre, Oxford)
« Rude and unlearned’ ; characterising homo vulgaris in early modern science. »
9h45 Delphine ANTOINE-MAHUT (ENS de Lyon-IHRIM-LabEX COMOD, Lyon)
« In the Brain of Christ. Fenelon as a Reader of Malebranche. »
Session 7. Chair : Raphaële GARROD (Magdalen, Oxford)
11h00 Michael JAWORCYN (CNRS / MFO, Oxford)
« The Finitude of Cartesian Minds. »
11h45 Daniel GARBER (Princeton U.)
« “We Desire to Form a Model of Human Nature” : Spinoza on Becoming a More Perfect Self »


