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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 reputationâ€
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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  • Start: 4th May 2023
  • End: 5th May 2023

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