SCOTTISH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
SSEMP VIII
University of Edinburgh 10-11 April 2017
Project Room, room 1.06, William Robertson Building
University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square
Edinburgh, EH8 9LH
Key note speakers:
Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen)
Peter Millican (Oxford University)
PROGRAMME
Monday 10 April
8.45 Welcome
Session 1: Hobbes and Spinoza
9.00-9.45 Francesca Rebasti (ENS de Lyon), “Reshaping Liberty of Conscience: Hobbes’s Heterodox Exegesis of the Gloss on Romans 14:23”
9.45-10.30 José Maria Sanchez de Leon (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), “Spinoza on Common Notions and the Order of Philosophizing”
10.30-10.45 Break
Session 2: Addison
10.45-11.30 Endre Szécsényi (Aberdeen), “The Birth of Modern Aesthetics from Spiritual Exercises”
11.30-12.15 Monica Uribe (Guanajuato), “Taste and Imagination in Addison’s Aesthetic Thought”
12.15-13.45 Lunch
Key Note Speaker
13.45-14.45 Beth Lord (Aberdeen), “Spinoza on Pride and Despondency”
14.45-15.00 Break
Session 1: Leibniz
15.00-15.45 Norma B. Goethe (Cordoba), “Leibniz on the Value of Learning from Exploratory Research”
15.45-16.30 Carlos Portales (Edinburgh), “Leibniz’s Modal Metaphysics as Ground for Nature’s Objective Aesthetic Value”
16.30-16.45 Break
SSEMP Essay Prize Winner
16.45-17.45 Kathrine Cuccuru (UCL), “Style over Substance? Literary Criticism and the Origins of the British Philosophical Sublime”
Tuesday 11 April
Session 4: Trotter, Masham, Locke
9.00-9.45 Simone Webb (UCL), “Self-Revelation and Sociability: Reading Damaris Masham’s Letters to John Locke as Philosophical Autobiography”
9.45-10.30 Emilio Maria de Tommaso (Calabria), “The True Grounds of Morality in Catharine Trotter’s Defence of Mr. Locke’s Essay”
10.30-10.45 Break
Session 5: Descartes
10.45-11.30 Andrea Christofidou (Keble College, Oxford), “Descartes on the Mind-Body Relation: A Solution?”
11.30-12.15 Christian Barth (Humboldt University, Berlin), “Cognitio interna and Conscientia in Descartes’ Conception of the Mind”
12.15-13.45 Lunch
Key Note Speaker
13.45-14.45 Peter Millican (Oxford), “Logic, Scepticism, and Egoism: Why Hume Disowned the Treatise of Human Nature”
14.45-15.00 Break
Session 6: Locke, Shaftesbury, Huygens
15.00-15.45 Tim Stuart-Buttle (Cambridge), “Locke on the ‘Two Provinces of Knowledg’”
15.45-16.30 Christian Maurer (Lausanne), “Shaftesbury’s Manuscript Pathologia. Stoicism, the Passions and Virtue”
16.30-16.45 Break
16.45-17.30 Miguel Palomo (Sevilla), “Christiaan Huygens, the Observer of the Cosmos”
Organisation: Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh), Mogens Lærke (IHRIM, CNRS, ENS de Lyon)
Funding: Scottish Philosophical Association (SPA) / British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP)/ Edinburgh University /IHRIM (CNRS, UMR 5317), ENS de Lyon.