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)
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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