Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy IX

Organisation :
D^r. Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen) ; D^r. 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

Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory.
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PROGRAMME

Thursday 24 May

9.00-9.15 Coffee and Welcome
9.15-10.00 Brenda Basilico (University of Lille III), “Music, Mathematics, and Skepticism in Mersenne’s Writings.”
10.00-10.45 Margaret Matthews (Emory University, Atlanta), “The Place of Skepticism in Montaigne’s Essays.”
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Key Note Speaker : Felicity Green (University of Edinburgh), “Freedom and Responsibility in Locke’s Account of Belief.”
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Raphael Krut-Landau (University of Pennsylvania), “From History to Anagogy : Scriptural Modes of Reading in Spinoza’s Ethics.”
14.15-15.00 Sanja Särman (Hong Kong University), “Don’t Know Yourself - Spinoza and Leibniz on the Advantages of Having an Infinitely Unfamiliar Mind.”
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.00 James A. Harris (University of St Andrews), “Hume on political obligation : between Locke and Filmer.”
16.00-17.45 SSEMP Essay Prize Winner : Jacob Hinze (University of St. Andrews), “Indeterminacies in Locke’s Concept of the State of Nature.”

Friday 25 May

9.00-9.15 Coffee
9.15-10.00 David Bartha (Central European University), “Two Routes to Idealism : Collier and Berkeley.”
10.00-10.45 Umrao Sethi (Lehman College, CUNY), “Mind-Dependence in Berkeley and the Problem of Perception.”
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Key Note Speaker : Martin Lenz (University of Groningen), “What does it mean to share a view ? Hume on the Transmission of Mental States. “
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Dino Jakusic (University of Warwick), “Christian Wolff and the Invention of Ontology.”
14.15-15.00 Gaston Robert (King’s College London), “God, Aggregation, and the Collective Unity of All Substances : General Pre-Established Harmony Revisited.”
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.00 Keith Green (East Tennessee State University), “Hatred, Moral Motivation, and ‘Normativity’ in Spinoza and Hume”
16.00-16.45 Gabriel Watts (Oriel College, Oxford), “The Curious Place of Curiosity in Hume’s Theory of the Passions.”