Early Modern Metaphysics of Causality and Representation
University of Turku, Department of Philosophy
16-17 December 2011
Publicum, Lecture Hall 4 (Pub4)
Friday 16 December 2011
9:30 Valtteri Viljanen: Opening words
9:35 Helen Hattab (University of Houston): Suarez and Descartes: A priori Arguments Against Substantial Forms and the Decline of the Formal Cause
10:35 Coffee
11:00 Frédéric Manzini (Catholic University of Paris): Spinoza?s Intuition as Opposed to Abstraction Rather Than to Deduction
Chair/Commentator: Mika Perälä (University of Jyväskylä
12:00 Lunch
13:15 Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University, Newark): Descartes? Causal Principle and the Case of Body-to-Mind Causation
14:15 Juhana Lemetti (University of Helsinki): Passive and Active Imagination in the Sixth Meditation
Chair/Commentator: Lilli Alanen (Uppsala University)
15:15 Coffee
15:45 Mogens Laerke (University of Aberdeen/ENS de Lyon): Spinoza and the Cosmological Argument According to Letter 12
16:45 Break
17:00 Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku): The Architecture of Spinoza’s Ontology Geometrically Illustrated
Chair/Commentator: Juhani Pietarinen (University of Turku)
18:45 Dinner
Saturday 17 December 2011
9:30 Jon Miller (Queen’s University): Spinoza and the Stoics on Happiness
Chair/Commentator: Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku)
10:30 Coffee
10:45 Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College, CUNY): Spinoza on Mental Causation
Chair/Commentator: Olli Koistinen (University of Turku)
11:45 Lunch
13:30 Peter Myrdal (Uppsala University): Leibniz on Powers, Faculties, and Laws
Chair/Commentator: Markku Roinila (University of Helsinki)
14:30 Coffee
15:00 Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere): Hume?s Refutation of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Chair/Commentator: Arto Repo (University of Turku)
16:00 Break
16:15 Andreas Schmidt (University of Tübingen): Kant and the Notion of Existence
17:15 Olli Koistinen (University of Turku): Kant on Representing Causality
Chair/Commentator: Hemmo Laiho (University of Turku)
19:00 Dinner
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