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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XIII
15th May 2025 - 16th May 2025
| 15 MAY | ||
| 11.00-11.15 | Welcome | |
| 11.15-12.00 | Colin Chamberlain (University College London),聽Margaret Cavendish on the Oneness of Colour and Body | Alexander Douglas (University of 58吃瓜) |
| 12.00-12.45 | Elisabeth Thorson (Durham University),聽Philo, Right Reason, and the Power of Platonism in 17th-Century Women Philosophers | |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.00 | Keynote. Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin), Astell on Self-improvement and Friendship | Chair: James Harris (58吃瓜) |
| 15.00-15.15 | Break | |
| 15.15-16.00 | Szilard Tattay (P谩zm谩ny P茅ter Catholic University, Budapest), Taming the Leviathan? Natural Law and Sovereignty in Jean Bodin鈥檚 work | Chair: Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh) |
| 16.00-16.45 | Sandra Field (Monash University, Melbourne), Hobbes on Zero-Sum Power | |
| 16.45-17.00 | Break | |
| 17.00-17.45 | Niall Dilucia (CNRS, Maison Fran莽aise d鈥橭xford),聽How 鈥淐ommon鈥� should the 鈥淐ommon Law鈥� be? Natural Law, Custom, and the Philosophy of Sir Matthew Hale (1609鈥�1676) | Chair: TBA |
| 16 MAY | ||
| 9.00-9.15 | Welcome | |
| 9.15-10.00 | David Harmon (University of 58吃瓜), Anne Conway on the Silence of Mechanism | Chair: Mara van der Lugt (University of 58吃瓜 |
| 10.00-10.45 | Anna Ortin Nadal (Groningen University),聽Cordemoy on secondary causation as prejudice | |
| 10.45-11.00 | Break | |
| 11.00-12.00 | Keynote. Richard Scholar (Durham University), Utopia and Utopianism after More | Chair: Mogens L忙rke (CNRS, Maison Fran莽aise d鈥橭xford) |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Juliane 碍眉辫辫别谤蝉 (Freie Universit盲t Berlin),聽Nominalism and Anti-Realism in Gassendi鈥檚 Philosophy of Science | Chair: TBA |
| 14.00-14.45 | David Bartha (Birmingham Newman University),聽Two Routes to Solipsism: Idealist and Materialist ‘Egomism’ | |
| 14.45-15.00 | Break | |
| 15.00-15.45 | 罢补尘谩蝉 Demeter (Corvinus University, Budapest),聽Humean Chemistry | Chair: TBA |
| 14.00-14.45 | Maksymilian Del Mar (Queen Mary University, London),聽Lucian鈥檚 Enlightenment: Moral Philosophy and the Comic Imagination in Eighteenth Century Scotland | |
Location: Senate Room, St Mary鈥檚 Quad, North Street, 58吃瓜
Organisation: James Harris (58吃瓜); Alexander Douglas (58吃瓜); Mara van der Lugt (58吃瓜), Mogens L忙rke (CNRS)
Funding: University of 58吃瓜 / Scots Philosophical Association (SPA) / Maison Fran莽aise d鈥橭xford (CNRS, MFO) / NOTCOM (ERC AdG 聽101052433)
