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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XII
9th May 2024 - 10th May 2024
| 9 MAY | ||
| 11.00-11.15 | Welcome | |
| 11.15-12.00 | Helena Taylor (Exeter), Natural philosophy in the Early Modern French Salon: at the Crossroads of Science and Literature | Chair: Mogens Lærke (CNRS, Oxford/Lyon) |
| 12.00-12.45 | Emily Kent (Edinburgh), Practice Makes Pedagogy: Maignan’s Cursus philosophicus (1653) and the Institutionalization of Experimental Philosophy | |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.00 | Key Note. Antonio Salgardo Borge (Nottingham), Spinoza’s (only) doctrine of parallelism | Chair: Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews) |
| 15.00-15.15 | Break | |
| 15.15-16.00 | Louis Rouquayrol (CNRS, Lyon), Descartes and Mersenne versus Comenius on Common Notions | Chair: Veronica Calado (±Ê²¹°ù²¹²Ôá) |
| 16.00-16.45 | Alex Douglas (58³Ô¹Ï), Spinozism in Aceh: divine superdeterminacy in Spinoza and Malaysian Sufism | |
| 16.45-17.00 | Break | |
| 17.00-17.45 | Geertje Bol (Ghent), Mary Astell on Ambition, Rank, and Talent | Chair: Mara van der Lugt (St. Andrews) |
| 10 MAY | ||
| 9.00-9.15 | Welcome | |
| 9.15-10.00 | Tim Stuart-Buttle (York), Gratitude in the History of Modern Political Thought: The Case of Hobbes | °ä³ó²¹¾±°ùÌý:ÌýAntonio Salgado Borge (Nottingham) |
| 10.00-10.45 | Marie Wuth (Hamburg), A Tale of Two States Spinoza on the Civil and the Natural | |
| 10.45-11.00 | Break | |
| 11.00-12.00 | Key Note: Michael Gill (Edinburgh), Responses to the denial of virtue in Butler and his contemporaries | Chair: James Harris (St. Andrews) |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Maaike Korpershoek (Groningen) and Aaron Wells (Paderborn), From the Theory of Fire to Dynamical Balancing: Boerhaave, Du Châtelet, and Kant. | Chair: Tamás Demeter (Corvinus, Budapest) |
| 14.00-14.45 | Daniel Klugman (Princeton), Cracked Foundations: Pascal’s Critique of Descartes’ Theory | |
| 14.45-15.00 | Break | |
| 15.00-15.45 | Dario Perinetti (UQAM), Desire and Satisfaction: Understanding Hume’s Sceptical Problems and Solutions | Chair: Flavio Augusto de Oliveira Santos (±Ê²¹°ù²¹²Ôá) |
Organisation: James Harris (St. Andrews); Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews); Mara van der Lugt (St. Andrews), Mogens Lærke (CNRS)
Funding: University of St. Andrews / Scots Philosophical Association (SPA) / Maison Française d’Oxford / NOTCOM (ERC AdG  101052433)
