Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy III (DSEMP)

Erasmus University RotterdamThe Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) and Erasmus University Rotterdam invite PhD students/ ReMa students in philosophy to register for the seminar “Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy III” to take place 24-25 March 2016 .

Organizing university

Erasmus Universtity Rotterdam

Date(s)

24-25 March 2016

Location

Erasmus University Rotterdam (March 24th) and Bilderberg Parkhotel,  Westersingel 70, Rotterdam (March 25th)

For information about travelling to Rotterdam, visiting Erasmus University and finding your way on the campus, please visit the EUR website: http://www.eur.nl/english/guide/how_to_get_there/

 

Type of activity

seminar

Type of activity

n.a.

Application/registration deadline

To register please send a message to a.sangiacomo@rug.nl before 20 March 2016.

Aim / objective

The Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is part of the activities of the OZSW Study Group in Early Modern Philosophy (https://www.ozsw.nl/study-group/study-group-early-modern-philosophy/) and of the “Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought” (www.rug.nl/gcmemt).

Program

 

 

First Day: Thursday 24th March Room G2 – 41 (G Building, Erasmus University Woudestein Campus)

08.30-09.00         Registration

Session 1 – Chair: Han van Ruler (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

09.00-09.45         Stefan Hessbrueggen (Higher School of Economics, Moscow): Christian Wisdom and ‘Double Truth’: Casmann against Hoffmann on Philosophy as a System

09.45-10.30         Austen Haynes (Boston University): Fitting Moral Motivation with Moral Fitness: Balguy’s Defense of Moral Rationalism

Coffee Break

Session 2 – Chair: Wiep van Bunge (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

10.45-11.30         Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Causation, Dependence, and the Allegedly Cartesian Roots of Spinoza’s

11.30-12.15         Sean Winkler (KU Leuven): The Problem of the Persistence of Identity amidst Alteration in Spinoza’s Account of Finite Individuals

12.15-13.00         Oberto Marrama (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières): Common notions and common properties in Spinoza’s theory of knowledge

Lunch Break         (Lunch packages provided)

Session 3 – Chair: Emily Thomas (Groningen University)

15.00-15.45         Michael Jaworzyn (KU Leuven): Geulincx Against Descartes (and the Scholastics) on the Mind and the Human Condition

15.45-16.30         Owen Pikkert (University of Toronto): Explaining Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason

Coffee Break

Session 4 – Chair: Andrea Sangiacomo (Groningen University)

16.45-17-30        Michael Walschots (University of Western Ontario): Adam Smith on “Why Be Moral?”

17.30-19.00           First Keynote Address: Andrew Janiak (Duke University): Did Leibniz write Newton’s De Gravitatione?

Dinner                  Erasmus Paviljoen

 

Second Day: Friday 25th March (Bilderberg Parkhotel, Westersingel 70, Rotterdam)

Session 5 – Chair: Han Thomas Adriaenssen (Groningen University)

09.00-09.45         Liz Goodnick (Metropolitan State University of Denver): Hume on the Epistemic Superiority of Polytheism to Monotheism

09.45-10.30         Max Hayward (Columbia University): Hume, Smith and Practical Reason

Coffee break

Session 6 – Chair: Han van Ruler (EUR)

10.45-11.30         Jonas Jervell Indregard (University of Oslo): Consciousness as Inner Sensation: Crusius and Kant

11.30-13.00                Second Keynote Address: Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University, Nijmegen): The Boundaries of the World in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence

End of the seminar 

Lecturers

See program

Certificate / credit points

n.a.

Costs

Attendance is free but registration is appreciated.

Location / accommodation details

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Room G2 – 41 (G Building) on March 24th, 2016.

Bilderberg Parkhotel, Westersingel 70, Rotterdam on March 25th, 2016.

Travel information

For information about travelling to Rotterdam, visiting Erasmus University and finding your way on the campus, please visit the EUR website: http://www.eur.nl/english/guide/how_to_get_there/

How to apply / register

To register please send a message to a.sangiacomo@rug.nl before 20 March 2016.

Organizers

Andrea Sangiacomo (http://www.rug.nl/staff/a.sangiacomo/).

The Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is part of the activities of the OZSW Study Group in Early Modern Philosophy (https://www.ozsw.nl/study-group/study-group-early-modern-philosophy/) and of the “Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought” (www.rug.nl/gcmemt)

Contact info

Contact Andrea Sangiacomo for more information and registration: a.sangiacomo@rug.nl