Date:
Monday, May 28, 2018 - 10:00am to Tuesday, May 29, 2018 - 6:00pm
The Fifth Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
In a joint effort by philosophers in Finland and Hungary, the Seminar was founded to promote international cooperation among scholars of seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy. The previous meeting was held in 2017 in Turku, Finland. This will be the fifth meeting in a continuous series of seminars. For more information, please see the website of the seminar series.
Organizing and program committee: Mike Griffin (CEU), Vili Lähteenmäki (Helsinki), Judit Szalai (ELTE), and Valtteri Viljanen (Turku).
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Monday, 28 May
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| 10.00 |
Anna Ortín Nadal (Edinburgh): |
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| 11.15 | Saja Parvizian (UIC): Descartes on the Problem of Knowledge Preservation |
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| 12.30 | Lunch break | |
| 14.00 | Robert Matyasi (Toronto): Spinoza on Objective Being and Modality |
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| 15.15 | Barnaby R. Hutchins (Ghent/Alpen-Adria): Spinoza and the Attributes: The Standpoint Interpretation |
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| 16.30 | Banafsheh Beizaei (NYU): Conception and the Role of the Insofar in Spinoza’s Ethics |
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Tuesday, 29 May
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| 10.00 | Thomas Feeney (University of Saint Thomas (MN)): Leibniz’s Ideal Monism, or What It Takes to be a Substance |
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| 11.15 | Andrew Ward (York): How Sceptical is Hume’s Theory of Personal Identity? |
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| 12:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14.00 | Charles T. Wolfe (IAS CEU/Ghent): Locke and Projects for Naturalizing the Mind in the 18th Century |
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| 15.15 | Umrao Sethi (Lehman College, CUNY): Mind-Dependence in Berkeley and the Problem of Perception |
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