Justin E. H. Smith

Premier séminaire québécois de philosophie moderne

PROGRAMME

16 octobre 2009

Premier atelier Université de Sherbrooke, Salon du Carrefour de l'information Présidence : Sébastien Charles
14 h 45 - 15 h 00		Accueil des congressistes et ouverture du séminaire
15 h 00 - 16 h 15		Jay Mikelman (Boston University), « Electing the Leviathan »
16 h 15 - 16 h 30		Pause
16 h 30 - 17 h 45		Tinneke Beeckman (Fund for Scientific Research Flanders), « Quand le vice devient vertu: la radicalité de la philosophie politique de Spinoza »
Premier conférencier invité Bishop’s University, McGreer 100 Présidence: Syliane Malinowski-Charles
18 h 15 - 19 h 45		Roger Ariew (University of South Florida), « The Cogito in 1634-1635 »

17 octobre 2009

Deuxième atelier Manoir Hovey, salle Abénaquis Présidence : Sébastien Charles
9 h 30 - 10 h 45		Andrew R. Platt (University of Delaware), « The Evolution of the Concept of an Occasional Cause: Clauberg and La Forge on ‘Occasions’ for Sensation »
10 h 45 - 11 h 00		Pause
11 h 00 - 12 h 15		Justin E. H. Smith (Université Concordia), « De la mécanique tractorique à la pyrotechnie: le modèle leibnizien de l’animal-machine »
Troisième atelier Manoir Hovey, salle Abénaquis Présidence: Syliane Malinowski-Charles
13 h 45 - 15 h 00		Graeme Hunter (University of Ottawa), « Tournament of Champions: Pascal Against Traditional Philosophy »
15 h 00 - 15 h 15		Pause
15 h 15 - 16h30		Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College, CUNY), « Sympathy, Representation, and Humanity in Spinoza’s Ethics »
Deuxième conférencier invité Manoir Hovey, salle Abénaquis Présidence: Sébastien Charles
17 h 30 - 19 h 00		Denis Kambouchner (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), « La transition Descartes-Spinoza en psychophysiologie »

18 octobre 2009

Quatrième atelier Manoir Hovey, salle Abénaquis Présidence: Syliane Malinowski-Charles
9 h 30 - 10 h 45		David Raynor (University of Ottawa), « The Intentionality of Perceptual Consciousness: Hume and Kant »

Peter the Great's Decree Appointing G. W. Leibniz to the Rank of Russian Privy Council (from the Slavonic)

I, Peter the Great, Tsar and Protector of All Russia, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, have in good favor chosen the Privy Council of the Elector and Prince of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in view of the good qualities and accomplishments of his that have been communicated to me and that I have confirmed, to serve also as my Privy Council, that he may contribute to the advancement of the mathematical and other sciences, and be of service to the investigation of history and to the undertaking of studies in general. It is my intention that he will contribute to the flourishing of the sciences and arts in our state, and for the above-mentioned rank of Privy Council I wish to offer him an annual salary of 1000 talers, which should be paid to him yearly on my behalf, and for which I shall place the requisite orders, beginning from the date indicated below. In testimony whereof I give my signature, together with our state seal, in Karlsbad, 11 November, 1712.

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Мы пεтръ пεрвыï Цръ и самѡдεржεцъ всεросиïскиï: Iпротчая ипротчая ипротчая; изобрѣли мы заблго всемилтивѣйше кȣрѳирстского икняжаго браȣнщвигъ люнѣбȣргъ таиного юстицъ рата готѳрида вилгεлма ѳонъ леïбница. Заεто намъ выхвалεнныя иот насъ изѡбрѣтεнныя изрядныя достоинства I искȣства тамождε внаши таиныя юстицъ раты опрεдεлить иȣчрεдить. Что намъ помεжε мы извεстны. Что ѡнъ поȣмножεнию матεматичεскихъ Iиныхъ искȣствъ ипроизыскиванью гисторεи ïкприрашεнию наȣкъ много вс'помоши можεтъ. Его поимεющемȣ нашεмȣ намѣрεнию что наȣки Iискȣства вншεмъ гдрствѣ вящεи цвѣтъ произошли употрεбить. Имы для вышεпомянȣтого εгѡ чина ншεго таиного юстицъ рата годовоε жалованьε потысячи ефимковъ опрεдεлить изволили, которыя εмȣ отнасъ εжεгодно исправно заплачεны быть имѣютъ инчεму мы налεжащи Указы дать изволимъ. Аεто слȣжба начичаεтца снижεписанногѡ числа; воȣвεрѣние того сие заншимъ собствεннымъ рȣкопописаниεмъ игдрствεнною ншεю пεчатью Дано в Карлсьбадε [11 ноября] въ 1712 году. 

MIWHP / SIMHP Programme 2009-10

Montreal Interuniversity Workshop in the History of Philosophy

Séminaire interuniversitaire de Montréal en histoire de la philosophie

Programme, 2009-10

FALL SEMESTER/SEMESTRE D’AUTOMNE

mardi, 29 septembre / Tuesday, 29 septembre
François Duchesneau, université de Montréal
“Le vitalisme de Blumenbach et les fins de la nature selon Kant”

mardi, 13 octobre / Tuesday, 13 October
Alexandra Torero-Ibad, UQAM
“La nature dans les Dialogues de La Mothe Le Vayer: entre physique et éthique”

mardi, 20 octobre / Tuesday, 20 October
Delphine Kolesnik, École Normale Supérieure-LSH, Lyon
Titre à préciser / Title TBA

mardi, 27 octobre / Tuesday, 27 October
Mitia Rioux-Beaulne, université d’Ottawa
“La communication des passions chez Malebranche et Diderot”

mardi, 10 novembre / Tuesday, 10 November
Raphaële Andrault, Fondation Thiers / ENS-LSH Lyon et Princeton University
"Le problème du 'siège de l'âme': Sténon, Spinoza, Leibniz"

mardi, 24 novembre / Tuesday, 24 November (in the Thomson House at McGill)
Paolo Fait, McGill University and Università di Padova
“Homonymy pros hen vs. ‘adding and subtracting’: Aristotle’s Metaphysics VII 4, 1030a 23-b 10”

mardi, 1 décembre / Tuesday, 1 December
Craig Martin, Oakland University
“Aristotle's Meteorology in the Renaissance” (hosted jointly with McGill HPS)


WINTER SEMESTER/SEMESTRE D'HIVER

Kenneth Winkler (Yale University)

Andreas Blank (Universität zu Paderborn)

Syliane Malinowski-Charles (Bishop's University)

Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)

6 April William R. Newman (HPS, Indiana)

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Unless otherwise indicated, this semester the meetings will take place at the Department of Philosophy of the université de Montréal, 2910 boulevard Édouard-Montpetit, room 307.

Sauf les exceptions, ce semestre les reunions auront lieu au département de philosophie de l’université de Montréal, 2910 boulevard Édouard-Montpetit, salle 307.

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For more information, please contact / pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter:

Justin Smith (justismi@alcor.concordia.ca)
Dario Perinetti (perinetti.dario@uqam.ca)
Sara Magrin (magrin.sara@uqam.ca)
Daniel Dumouchel (dumouchel.daniel@umontreal.ca)

In Kind: Species of Exchange in Early Modern Science and Philosophy

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 18-19 June 2010 

Provisional Programme

Organizers: James Delbourgo (Rutgers), Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge) and Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia)

Friday 18 June 
9.30 Introduction and Greeting by Organizers 
 
Morning Session: Making Orders 
Chair: Sachiko Kusukawa, Trinity College, Cambridge 
10-11: Peter Anstey, Philosophy, University of Otago ‘Essentialism and Baconian natural history in the late seventeenth century’ 
11-12: Brian Ogilvie, History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ‘Order of Insects: Insect Species from Jan Swammerdam to John Ray’ 
12-2: Lunch 
 
Afternoon Session: Gathering and Assembling 
Chair: Emma Spary, UCL 
2-3: Alix Cooper, History, SUNY, Stony Brook ‘Dealing in Difference: Commerce and Natural History in Early Enlightenment Danzig’ 
3-4: James Delbourgo, History, Rutgers University ‘Putting Jamaica on Paper: Assembling Species in Providential England’  
4-4.30 Tea and Coffee Break 
4.30-5.30: Kelly Whitmer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin ‘Gathering kinds, assembling models: Pietist philanthropy's global enterprises, 1700-1730’ 
7.30: Conference Dinner 
 
 Saturday 19 June 
Morning Session: Race and Monsters 
10-11: Justin E. H. Smith, Philosophy, Concordia University ‘Race, Geschlecht, and Generational Series in Leibniz’ 
11-12: Daniel Carey, English, National University of Ireland ‘Locke’s Monsters’ 
12-2: Lunch 
 
Afternoon Session: Linnaean Retrospective and Conclusion 
2-3: Staffan Müller-Wille, Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter ‘Taxonomic Wars: Seventeenth Century Debates from the Point of View of Linnaeus’ 
3-4.30: Roundtable Discussion: organizers, participants, audience 
 
End of Conference