5-6 March 2010
Divinity School Library, University of Aberdeen
Keynote Speakers:
Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
Pauline Phemister (University of Edinburgh)
Organisation:
Mogens Lærke (University of Aberdeen)
Stephen Gaukroger (University
of Aberdeen/Sydney University)
Program
Friday, March 5th
9.30-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.00 John Whipple (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Malebranche and Descartes on Mind-Body Distinction”
11.00-12.00 Delphine Kolesnik (École Normale Supérièure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon), “What does it mean to study man ‘as a physicist?’ Regius and Descartes”
12.00-14.00 Lunch at Zeste
14.00-15.00 Justin E.
H. Smith (Concordia University, Montreal), “Leibniz’s anti-vitalism”
15.00-16.00 Martine Pécharman (CNRS, Paris), “The Moral Psychology of Ralph Cudworth: What Place for Sympathy?”
16.00-16.30 Coffee
16.30-17.30 Keynote speaker. Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen), “Metaphysics and the sciences of life: Descartes and Leibniz”
Saturday, March 6th
10.00-11.00 Angelica Nuzzo (City University of New York), “The relation between body and mind in Spinoza’s ‘Intellectual love of God’ (Ethica V P33-39)”
11.00-12.00 Julie
Henry (École Normale Supérièure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon),
“How does a child become a man? Descartes, Spinoza”
12.00-13.30 Light Lunch
13.30-14.30 Ohad Nachtomy (Fordham University, New York), “Uniqueness, Unity and Infinity in Spinoza and Leibniz”
14.30-15.30 Laurence Devilllairs (Centre Sèvres, Paris), “To know and to understand. The Knowledge of God in Cartesian Metaphysics”
15.30-16.00 Coffee
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