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Philosophy events, week of 15th September

Research seminars next week (more information):

  • Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics), “Personal Identity and the Significance of Becoming,” at St Andrews’ Philosophy Club on Wednesday, 17th September.
  • Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics), “How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Could Have Been,” at Stirling’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Thursday, 18th September.
  • Martin Kusch (University of Vienna), “Epistemic Relativism and Skepticism: Three Problems,” at Edinburgh’s Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates on Thursday, 18th September.
  • Vasilis Politis (Trinity College Dublin), “Definition by Example in the Hippias Major: Plato’s anticipation of, and response to, Geach,” at Edinburgh’s Visiting Speaker Seminar on Friday, 26th September.
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5th North Sea Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Hosted by the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews

10-11 October, 2014

THEMES FROM THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

  • Hannah Dawson (New College of the Humanities): ‘Locke on Natural Law’
  • Lena Halldenius (Lund): ‘Wollstonecraft and Republicanism’
  • Adamas Fiucci (Chieti): ‘Natural Law in Montaigne’s Political Thought’
  • Johan Olsthoorn (LSE): ‘Rights, Justice and Injury in Grotius and Hobbes’
  • Veronika Szanto (Eotvos Lorand University): ‘Vitalism and Political Radicalism in C17th England’
  • Steph Marston (Birkbeck): ‘Spinoza as Debunker of Natural Rights Theories’
  • Alfonso Vergaray (California University of Pennsylvania): ‘Normative Uncertainty in Spinoza’s Tractatus’
  • Martin Otero-Knott (Cambridge): ‘Cocceji and the Critique of Sociality’
  • Annelien De Dijn (Amsterdam): ‘Rousseau and Republicanism’
  • Jan Kvetina (Charles University): ‘Rousseau and Poland’

For the full programme, see: http://www.intellectualhistory.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/North-Sea-programme.pdf

For further information, and to register, contact James Harris at jah15@st-and.ac.uk

This event is supported by the Scots Philosophical Association.