SCOTTISH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY XIII * PROGRAMME *
We are pleased to announce the full programme for the thirteenth Scottish seminar in early modern philosophy, available to download HERE.
Event: Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XIII
Location: Senate Room, St. Mary’s, South Street (university of St. Andrew)
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15 MAY
11.00-11.15. Welcome
11.15-12.00 Colin Chamberlain (University College London), Margaret Cavendish on the Oneness of Colour and Body
12.00-12.45 Elisabeth Thorson (Durham University), Philo, Right Reason, and the Power of Platonism in 17th-Century Women Philosophers
Chair: Alexander Douglas (University of St. Andrews)
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Keynote. Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin), Astell on Self-improvement and Friendship
Chair: James Harris (University of St. Andrews)
Break
15.15-16.00 Szilard Tattay (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest), Taming the Leviathan? Natural Law and Sovereignty in Jean Bodin’s work
16.00-16.45 Sandra Field (Monash University, Melbourne), Hobbes on Zero-Sum Power
Chair: Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh)
Break
17.00-17.45 Niall Dilucia (CNRS, Maison Française d’Oxford), How “Common” should the “Common Law” be? Natural Law, Custom, and the Philosophy of Sir Matthew Hale (1609–1676)
Chair: TBA
16 MAY
9.00-9.15 Welcome
9.15-10. 00 David Harmon (University of St. Andrews), Anne Conway on the Silence of Mechanism
10.00-10.45 Anna Ortin Nadal (Groningen University), Cordemoy on secondary causation as prejudice
Chair: Mara van der Lugt (University of St. Andrews)
Break
11.00-12.00 Keynote. Richard Scholar (Durham University), TBA
Chair: Mogens Lærke (CNRS, Maison Française d’Oxford)
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.15-14.00 Juliane Küppers (Freie Universität Berlin), Nominalism and Anti-Realism in Gassendi’s Philosophy of Science
14.00-14..45 David Bartha (Birmingham Newman University), Two Routes to Solipsism: Idealist and Materialist ‘Egomism’
Chair: TBA (CNRS, Maison Française d’Oxford)
Break
15.00-15.45 Tamás Demeter (Corvinus University, Budapest), Humean Chemistry
15 :45-16 :30 Maksymilian Del Mar (Queen Mary University, London), Lucian’s Enlightenment: Moral Philosophy and the Comic Imagination in Eighteenth Century Scotland
Chair: TBA
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