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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XI
4th May 2023 - 5th May 2023
4 MAY
| 10.45-11.00 | Welcome |
| 11.00-12.00 | Key Note: Jennifer S. Marušić (Edinburgh), Locke on Moral Demonstration |
| Break | |
| 12.15-13.00 | John J. Callanan (King’s College London), Mandeville’s Genealogy of Virtue |
| Lunch | |
| 14.00-14.45 | Michael Jaworzyn (Edinburgh), ‘Freedom is a relation’ – Metaphysics, Freedom, and Action in the Early German Reception of Locke |
| 14.45-15.30 | Marzia Marconi (Pavia/Turin), Custom as legitimate normative standard. Velthuysen’s Epistolica dissertatio de justi et decori (1651) as philosophical source of Locke’s “law of reputation†|
| Break | |
| 15.45-16.30 | Julie Klein (Villanova, Philadelphia), Producing Agreement: Spinoza’s Politics as Repressive Empowerment |
| 16.30-17.15 | Marie Wuth (Hamburg), A Tale of Two States. Spinoza on the Civil and the Natural |
5 MAY
| 9.00-9.15 | Welcome |
| 9.15-10.00 | Manuel Fasko (Basel) and Peter West (New College of the Humanities, London), Mary Shepard on Space and Minds |
| 10.00-10.45 | Clara Carus (Paderborn/Oxford), Monads or Simple Beings in Leibniz and Du Châtelet |
| Break | |
| 11.00-11.45 | Xiao Qi (St. Andrews), Contract and Custom: Hume’s Twofold Conception of Convention |
| 11.45-12.30 | Enrico Galvagni (St. Andrews), King and Hume on the Construction of Value |
| Lunch | |
| 13.30-14.30 | Key Note: Philippe Hamou (Sorbonne, Paris), The World Without Us. Reflections on Early-Modern Realism |
| Break | |
| 14.45-15.15 | Dario Galvao (Sorbonne, Paris / São Paulo), When Philosophy meets Hunting: Condillac, Le Roy and the Origins of Ethology |
| 15.15-16.00 | Marco Fornaseri (Turin), The Boyle Lectures as a Reaction to Irreligion in 18th-Century British Culture |
Organisation: Antonio Salgado Borge (St. Andrews) ; Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews); Mara van der Lugt (St. Andrews), Mogens Lærke (CNRS, IHRIM Lyon / MFO Oxford)
Funding: University of St. Andrews; Scots Philosophical Association (SPA); British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP); IHRIM (UMR 5317, ENS de Lyon)
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