UPPSALA WORKSHOP IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Mind, Body, and Agency in Spinoza and Leibniz
University of Uppsala, 22-23 May 2008
Engelska parken, Humanistiskt centrum, building 2, second floor, room 2-1077
Thursday 22 May
9:30: Opening words
9:45-11:00 Edwin Curley (Michigan): “Can Humans be Agents in a World where God is
Omnipotent?”
11:15-12:30 Donald Rutherford (UCSD): “Spinoza, Human Agency and the Good”
Lunch
14:00-15:15 André Gombay (Toronto): “Spinoza’s Condemnation of Deceit”
Coffee
15:45-17:00 Jon Miller (Queen’s): “Spinoza and the Stoics on Activity and Passivity”
18:00 Reception
Friday 23 May
9:15-10:30: Peter Myrdal (Uppsala): “Persons, Agents, and Love in Leibniz”
10:45-12:00 Valtteri Viljanen (Turku): “Leibniz and Spinoza on Passion and Action”
Lunch
13:30-14:45 Pierre-François Moreau (ENS-Lyon): “Quelques difficultés dans l’analyse spinoziste des rapports entre mens et corpus”
15.00-16.15 Chantal Jaquet (Paris): “L’égalité du corps et de l’esprit chez Spinoza”
Coffee
16:45-18:00 Lilli Alanen (Uppsala) : “Spinoza on Pride and Self-Knowledge”
19:00 Dinner
The workshop is organized by the research program Understanding Agency, funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, together with the Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University.
For more details and availability, please contact Lilli Alanen (), or Peter Myrdal ().
See also the web page at http://www.filosofi.uu.se/agency/node16.