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SCOTTISH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY XIV *PROGRAMME*

 

We are pleased to circulate the new programme for the Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XIV.

Location: University of Edinburgh

Date: 14–15 May 2026

Venue: Douglas Stewart Building (Room 1.20),3 Charles Street, EH8 9AD

 

14 MAY

11.00-11.15. Welcome

11.15-12.00 Frans Svensson (University of Gothenburg), Descartes on Failing to Act Well

12.00-12.45 Michael Jaworzyn (MFO, Oxford), Tschirnhaus and the Cartesians

Chair: David Harmon (St. Andrews)

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Keynote. Julia Borcherding (Cambridge University), A Remarkably Gifted Woman’: Some Further Thoughts on the Leibniz-Masham Exchange

Chair: Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh University)

Break

15.15-16.00 Hina Nazar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), The Pleasure Principle in Early Modern Feminist Philosophy: Mary Astell and Damaris Masham on Desire and Self-Governance

16.00-16.45 Matthew Anderson (Monash University), Stoicism and Slander in Marie de Gournay

Chair: Meg Gottschall (St. Andrews)

Break

17.00-17.45. Goran Gaber (IHRIM, Lyon), Critique and Early Modern Philosophy – An Emic Perspective

Chair: Farhad Alavi (Edinburgh)

 

15 MAY

9.00-9.15 Welcome

9.15-10. 00 Claudia Dumitru (Yale University), Hobbes on Power Estimation and the Passions of the Mind

10.00-10.45 Emma Barettoni (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Naples), Vengeance or Punishment: Justice, Anger, and Indignation in Thomas Hobbes

Chair: Boxiang Yu (Edinburgh University)

Break

11.00-12.00 Keynote. Alexander Douglas (University of St. Andrews), Whatever We Can Think of Is Real: Spinoza and Cartesian Theories of the Content of Ideas

Chair: Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh University)

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.15-14.00 Francesco Ciocconi (University of Salento), Thomas Burnet as Historian of Philosophy

14.00-14.45 Olivia Branscum (University of Oklahoma), Panpsychist Materialism in the Age of Milton

Chair: Mogens Lærke (CNRS, Lyon/Oxford)

Break

15.00-15.45 Jen Nguyen (Bucknell University), Changing Descartes’s Algebra: Leibniz’s Calculus of Situations Revisited

15 :45-16 :30

Chair:  Jennifer Marusic (Edinburgh University)

 

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Organisation: Michael Gill (Edinburgh), Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh), Jennifer Marusic (Edinburgh), Mogens Lærke (CNRS)

Funding: Edinburgh University / Scots Philosophical Association (SPA) / NOTCOM (ERC AdG 101052433).

 

“The Common Notion. Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century” is funded by the European Research Council (NOTCOM, ERC AdG no. 101052433, 2023-2027). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the participants only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the ERC. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them”.


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