Berlin-Hamburg-Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

20. Mai 2019

Foto: Universitaet Hamburg

Berlin-Hamburg Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy June 28-29, 2019

Berlin-Hamburg Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

Universität Hamburg, ESA-W 121 (This is the western part of the mainbuilding at Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1)

(Organized by Sebastian Bender, Daniel Dragicevic, Lukas Lang and Stephan Schmid)

Attendance is free, please register at: hu.uhhearlymodern@gmail.com

Friday, June 28, 2019

9:30-9:45 Stephan Schmid (Universität Hamburg) & Sebastian Bender (HU Berlin): Introduction

Chair: Hamid Taieb

9:45-11:00 Ariane Schneck (Universität Bielefeld): Autonomy and Self-Love in Descartes

11:00-11.15 Break

11:15-12:30 Michael Oliva Córdoba (Universität Hamburg): Of Those Things that Weaken, or Tend to the Dissolution of a Commonwealth. Hobbes and the Role of Government in Education

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Chair: Dominik Perler

14:00-15.15 José María Sánchez de León Serrano (Universität Hamburg): The Holism of the Mental in Geulincx

15:15-15:30 Break

15:30-16:45 Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Non-Quantitative Infinity

16:45-17:00 Break

17:00-18:15 Han Thomas Adriaenssen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen): Thomas Hobbes versus Thomas White on Identity over Time

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Chair: Sebastian Bender

9:15-10:30 Jack Stetter (Université Paris VIII): Spinoza on Stupidity: The Power of False Ideas and Persistent Ignorance

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Banafsheh Beizaei (NYU): Leibnizian Harmony as Fallible Criterion of Contingent Truth

12:00-13:30 Lunch

Chair: Stephan Schmid

13:30-14:45 Hannes Ole Matthiessen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Reid on Apparent and Real Colours

14:45-15:00 Break

15:15-16:30 Falk Wunderlich (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Early Modern Materialism and the Activity of Matter

16:30 End of the Workshop

Our (slightly outdated) poster for download.