From: Daniel Garber <[log in to unmask]>
JOINT MEETING OF:
MIDWEST SEMINAR FOR THE HISTORY OF
EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
CENTRE D’ETUDES CARTESIENNES (PARIS-
SORBONNE)
CENTRO STUDI CARTESIANI (LECCE)
PARIS, DECEMBER 12-13
TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER, 9:30 - 12:30, THE ETERNAL
TRUTHS:
- Greg Walski (University of Michigan), « The Motivation and
Opponent
Behind Descartes's Doctrine of the Creation of the Eternal Truths ».
- Igor Agostini (Università di Lecce) : « Assioma del nulla e verità
eterne in Descartes ».
- Laurence Devillairs, « L'augustinisme de la thèse de 1630 ».
Round table discussion with Fabio Sulpizio (Università di Lecce),
Claudio Buccolini (Università di Roma) et Amy Schmitter (University
of
New Mexico).
TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER, 2:30 - 5:30, DESCARTES AND HIS
PREDECESSORS:
Helen Hattab (Southern Illinois University), « The Grounding of
Efficient Causation in the Aristotelian and Mechanistic Traditions » ;
commentator: Giovanna Vergari (Paris IV).
Douglas Jesseph (North Carolina State University), « Hobbes and
Descartes on Metaphysics, Physics, and the Possibility of Theology » ;
commentator Frédéric Manzini (Paris IV).
Francesco Marrone (Università di Bari) : « Idée et image chez
Descartes » ; commentator Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale
Superiore-Pisa).
TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER, 6:00 PM, Elhanan Yakira (Hebrew
University,
Jerusalem)
WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER, 9:30 - 12:30, DESCARTES
UNDER DISCUSSION:
Vincent Aucante, « La vision selon Descartes et Plempius » ;
commentator Sarah Marquardt (University of Toronto).
Giuliano Gasparri (Università di Roma) : « Pierre Cally (1630-1709)
come fonte del Lexicon philosophicum di Etienne Chauvin » ;
commentator to be determined
Tad Schmaltz (Duke University), « A Tale of Two Condemnations :
Two
Cartesian Condemnations in 17thC France » ; commentator Zbigniew
Janovski (University of King's College, Halifax).
WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER, 2:30 - 5:30, THE POST-
CARTESIANS:
Massimiliano Savini (EPHE) : « Le reazioni dei primi cartesiani
olandesi in difesa della methodus cartesiana : la Defensio cartesiana
di J. Clauberg e l'Assertio methodi cartesianae di Tobias Andreae » ;
commentator Antonella Del Prete.
Gilles Olivo (Caen), « Spinoza » ; commentator Martin Lin (University
of Chicago).
Michaël Devaux (Fondation Thiers), « Leibniz face à la philosophie
première de Descartes » ; commentator Justin Smith (Miami
University).
All sessions will take place at the Salle des Commissions, Rectorat de
la Sorbonne. Enter through 18, rue des Ecoles.
For further information, please contact Daniel Garber at
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