Program
Monday, 15 February
Morning Session |
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9.00-10.30 Senatssaal |
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11.00-12.30 Senatssaal |
Catherine Wilson (Aberdeen): The Representationalist Paradigm in Early Modern Perceptual Theory: Sources, Problems, Solutions |
Afternoon Session |
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14.30-18.00 Senatssaal |
Colloquium 1: Perception and Imagination |
14.30-15.15 |
Michael Edwards (Cambridge): Imagination and Nature in Late Aristotelianism |
15.15-16.00 |
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (München): The Role of Imagination in Descartes' Theory of the Passions |
16.00-16.30 |
Break |
16.30-17.15 |
Paolo Rubini (Berlin): "Non est intelligere absque phantasmate" - Naturalization of the Mind and Cognitive Role of the Imagination according to Pietro Pomponazzi |
17.15-18.00 |
Juhana Lemetti (Helsinki): Active Sensory Imagination and Its Limits in Early Modern Naturalism |
14.30-18.00 Room 2097 |
Colloquium 2: Volition and Freedom Chair: Michael Hampe (Zürich) |
14.30-15.15 |
Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt): Freiheit und Erkenntnis: Zum Problem des doxastischen Voluntarismus im klassischen Rationalismus |
15.15-16.00 |
Norman Sieroka (Zürich): Wahrnehmung, Kontinuität und Wille bei Leibniz |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Break |
16.30-17.15 |
Stephan Schmid (Berlin): Freiheit und hypothetische Notwendigkeit bei Leibniz |
17.15-18.00 |
Hans Peter Schütt (Karlsruhe): Humes Freiheiten |
Evening Lecture - Monday, 15 February |
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18.30-20:00 Senatssaal |
Udo Thiel (Graz): Bundles and Selves: Hume in Context |
Tuesday, 16 February
Morning Session |
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| 9.00-10.30 Senatssaal | Han van Ruler (Rotterdam): The Psychodynamics of the Pineal Gland: Descartes’ Dualism between Stoicism and Psychology |
| 11.00-12.30 Senatssaal | Susan James (Birkbeck): When does Truth Matter? The Politics of Spinoza's Philosophy |
Afternoon Session |
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| 14.30-18.00 Senatssaal | Colloquium 3: Emotion and Action Chair: Lena Halldenius (Malmö) |
| 14.30-15.15 | Susan James (London): Narrative as the Means to Freedom. Spinoza on the Uses of Imagination |
| 15.15-16.00 | Peter Myrdal (Uppsala): Leibniz on Pleasure in Activity |
| 16.00-16.30 | Break |
| 16.30-17.15 | Martina Reuter (Helsinki): The Force of Passions and the Imagination in Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy |
| 17.15-18.00 | Timothy O'Hagan (Norwich): Sense and Sensibility in Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| 14.30-18.00 Room 2097 | Colloquium 4: Laws of Nature and Rules of Thought Chair: Andreas Hüttemann (Münster) |
| 14.30-15.15 | Stefano di Bella (Pisa): Law and Miracle in a Leibnizian World |
| 15.15-16.00 | Maarten van Dyck (Gent): 'Nature's Inexorable and Immutable Ways' - The mechanical background of Galileo's laws of nature |
| 16.00-16.30 | Break |
| 16.30-17.15 | Oliver Scholz (Münster): 'Prendre pour cause ce qui n’est point cause' – Arnauld, Nicole und Pascal über Kausalaussagen und kausale Fehlschlüsse |
| 17.15-18.00 | Martin Schüle (Zürich): Die Verkörperung des Denkens – Hobbes’ „computational theory of mind“ |
Wednesday, 17 February
Morning Session |
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| 9.00-10.30 Senatssaal | Jonathan Lowe (Durham): Language, Thought, and Meaning in Locke's Essay |
| 11.00-12.30 Senatssaal | Dennis DesChene (St. Louis): Substance and Organism |
Afternoon Session |
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| 14.30-18.00 Senatssaal | Colloquium 5: Dysfunctional Minds Chair: Sophie Roux (Grenoble) |
| 14.30-15.15 | Denis Kambouchner (Paris): Descartes et la physiologie de la folie: remarques sur un passage du Traité de l’Homme |
| 15.15-16.00 | Claire Crignon (Dijon): Ordre et désordres de l’esprit: l’approche médicale de Thomas Willis (1621-1675) |
| 16.00-16.30 | Break |
| 16.30-17.15 | Cédric Brun (Bordeaux): De l’imbécile à l’aveugle studieux, figures et usages d’esprits dysfonctionnels dans la philosophie de la connaissance de John Locke |
| 17.15-18.00 | Richard Glauser (Neuchâtel): Locke and the Problem of Weakness of the Will |
14.30-18.00 Room 2097 |
Colloquium 6: Finite and Infinite Minds Chair: James Hill (Praha) |
| 14.30-15.15 | Petr Glombicek (Olomouc): "Bona Mens Cartesiana" |
| 15.15-16.00 | Christian Barth (Berlin): Leibniz on Divine and Human Omniscience |
| 16.00-16.30 | Break |
| 16.30-17.15 | Jiri Chotas (Praha): Hobbes on Finite and Infinite Minds |
| 17.15-18.00 | Gregor Kroupa (Ljubljana): Vast Oceans of Nature, Small Islands of Knowledge: Ordering infinite complexity in the Encyclopédie |
Evening Lectures - Wednesday, 17 February |
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| 18.30-20.00 Senatssaal | Michael Della Rocca (Yale): Naturalism and Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (in Leibniz and Spinoza) |
| 20.00-21.30 Senatssaal | Daniel Garber (Princeton): Before Monads: How Leibniz Discovered Mind in Nature |
For detailed information about the keynote lectures click here.
For detailed information about the colloquia papers click here.
Info
Mind in Nature
2nd Conference of the
European Society
for Early Modern Philosophie
15th - 17th February 2010
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Senatssaal & Room 2097