The Second Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
11th–12th October 2014
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Saturday 11th October, Historica 320
9.10 Vili Lähteenmäki (Jyväskylä): Opening Words
9.15 Alison Simmons (Harvard): Mind-Body Union: Descartes and the Limits of Metaphysics
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Michael Griffin (CEU): Descartes and Modal Creationism (TBD)
11.45 Olivier Dubouclez (Liège/Paris IV-Sorbonne): On the Importance of Being (More) Attentive. Another Look at Descartes’ Practice of Meditation
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Han Thomas Adriaenssen and Sander de Boer (Groningen): Disentangling the Blackloists: Sir Kenelm Digby and John Sergeant on Common Notions, Metaphysics, and the Soul
15.00 Jennifer Marušic (Brandeis/HU Berlin): Locke’s Simple Account of Sensitive Knowledge
16.00 Coffee break
16.15 Jessica Gordon-Roth (CUNY): Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Defense of Locke
17.15 Aino Lahdenranta (Jyväskylä): Francis Hutcheson on Selfish and Benevolent Desires
Sunday 12th October, Historica 320
9.30 Daniel Schneider (Ghent): Spinoza’s Epistemic Methodism
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Oliver Istvan Toth (CEU): Spinoza’s Theory of Consciousness – an Epistemic Interpretation
11.45 Adam Harmer (UC Riverside): Leibniz and Descartes on Plurality and the Independence of Substances
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Sarah Tropper (King’s College London): Corporeal Substances in a World of Monads. To which Conception of Substantiality is Leibniz Committed?
15.00 Peter Myrdal (Turku/Uppsala): Leibniz on Perception as Activity
16.00 Coffee break
16.15 Sebastian Bender (HU Berlin): Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Leibniz
Contact: vili.lahteenmaki at jyu.fi