This is a past event
51cg,Scotland
14-15 May 2014
Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 1 (room 706)
Key Note Speakers:
Susan James (Birkbeck/Princeton)
John Sellars (Birkbeck/Oxford)
The event is sponsored by:
The Scots Philosophical Association
The Schoolof Divinity, History and Philosophy (51cg)
British Society for the History of Philosophy
ANR Anthopos (ENS-Lyon)
Brill Academic Publishers
PROGRAM
Wednesday, 14 May
9.15-9.30 Coffee and Welcome
Session I
Chair: Mogens Lærke (51cg/ CNRS, UMR 5037, ENS-Lyon)
9.30-10.15 Olivia Bailey (Harvard University), Empathy, Care, and Understanding in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
10.15-11.00 Thomas D. Micklich and Roman Alexander Barton (Humboldt Universitty, Berlin), Transformations of Sympathy: Shaftesbury and Adam Smith between Ancients and Moderns
11.00-11.15 Break
Session II (BSHP essay prize winner)
Chair: Beth Lord (51cg)
11.15-12.15 J. D. Taylor (University of Roehampton), Collective Bodies, Collective Minds: Reason, Security and Power in Spinoza’s Tractatus Politicus
12.15-14.00 Lunch Break
Key Note
Chair: Beth Lord (51cg)
14.00-15.00 Susan James (Birkbeck College/Princeton University), Spinoza on Political and Individual Freedom
15.00-15.30 Break
Session III
Chair: TBA
15.30-16.15 Arnaud Milanese (ENS-Lyon), Bacon’s Uses of the History of Philosophy
16.15-17.00 Rodolfo Garau (University of Torino/ Max Planck institute for the History of Science, Berlin), The Sources and Strategies of Hobbes’s Mechanical Doctrine of Self-Preservation
Thursday, 15 May
9.15-9.30 Coffee
Session IV
Chair: Oberto Marrama (51cg)
9.30-10.15 Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Tel Aviv University), Self-Experience and the Imago Dei in Descartes and Spinoza
10.15-11.00 Gregor Kroupa (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Truth Through Fiction: History Written by Philosophers
11.00-11.15 Break
Session V
Chair: Peter Zoltan Hartl (51cg)
11.15-12.00 Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto), Hume’s Essential Fictions
12.00-14.00 Lunch Break
Key Note
Chair: Christian Maurer (University of Fribourg)
14.00-15.00 John Sellars (Birkbeck and Oxford), Shaftesbury, Stoicism, and Philosophy as a Way of Life
15.00-15.30 Break
Session VI
Chair: Christopher Thomas (51cg)
15.30-16.15 Nausicaa Elena Milani (University of Parma, Italy), Cartesianism and Anticartesianism in the Régis-Huet Debate
16.15-17.00 Balint Kekedi (51cg), The Role of Animal Passions in the Cognitive Economy of Humans and Higher Animals in Descartes
Organization:
Beth Lord (51cg)
Mogens Lærke (51cg/ CNRS, UMR 5037, ENS-Lyon)
For information, please write to mogenslaerke@hotmail.com or to s.b.lord@abdn.ac.uk