5th
Annual
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Weekend
of October 18-19, 2008
Faculty of Philosophy 10 Merton St., Oxford
A list of the papers that will be presented follows below
Please direct any questions via email to: paul dot lodge at
philosophy dot ox dot ac dot
uk
There is no registration
for the conference. Those wishing to attend should simply come along.
Please
note, however, that access to the building will be restricted and
will only be possible during coffee breaks and before the beginning
of sessions.
9.45-10.45 John
Callanan (King's College, London) 'Concept-Mastery and Space: Interpreting the Third
Paragraph of Kant's Metaphysical Exposition of Space.'
10.45-11.45 Gary Hatfield
(University of Pennsylvania) ' Descartes' Rehabilitation
of the Senses.'
11.45-12.15 - Break
12.15-1.15 Antonia
LoLordo (University of Virginia) 'The Role of Definitions in Spinoza's Ethics'.
1.15-2.30 - LUNCH
2.30-3.30 -- Peter
Millican (University of Oxford) "Hume, Causal Realism, and Causal Science."
3.30-4.30 -- Eric Schliesser
(Leiden University) 'Without God: Gravity as a Relational Quality
of Matter in Newton.'
4.30-5.00 - Break
5.00-6.00 John Sellars (University
of the West of England) 'Is God a Mindless Vegetable?
Cudworth on Stoic Theology.'
Sunday October 19
9.00-9.30 -- Coffee
9.30-10.30 Frans
Svensson and Lilli Alanen (University of Uppsala) ' A Design for Life: Descartes on Happiness and the Pursuit of
Virtue.'
10.30-11.30 Thomas
Vinci (Dalhousie University) 'Kant and Descartes on Intentionality.'
11.30-11.50 - Break
11.50-12.50 John Whipple
(University of Illinois - Chicago) ' Leibniz on Divine Concurrence.'
12.50-1.50 Kenneth
Winkler (Yale University) 'Causal Realism and Hume's Revisions of the Enquiry.'