Date/Time
Date(s) - 16 Feb 2013
9:00 AM - 7:45 PM
Location
Princeton University
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METAPHYSICS AND MIND: LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PERSPECTIVES
Global Scholar Seminar
Princeton University
February 16, 2013
9:00-10:00AM Dominik Perler (Humboldt University, Berlin) “Suárez on Consciousness”
10:00-10:30AM Coffee break
10:30-11:30AM Helen Hattab (University of Houston) “The Target of Descartes’ Attack on Substantial Forms: Suarez versus Aquinas”
11:30AM-12:30PM Roger Ariew (University of South Florida) “A Metaphysical Element in Descartes and the First Cartesians: Non-Univocal Predication”
2:00-3:00PM Stephan Schmid (Humboldt University, Berlin) “Teleology and Final Causes in Spinoza”
3:00-4:00PM Shira Billet (Princeton University) “Between Stoicism and Naturalism: Paradoxes of Normativity in Spinoza’s Ethics”
4:30-5:30PM Sebastian Bender (Humboldt University, Berlin) “Leibniz on Modality and Divine Psychology”
5:30-6:30PM Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Seeing an Argument All at Once”
This seminar is held to celebrate the appointment of Dominik Perler as Global Scholar in the Departments of Philosophy, Religion, and the Program of Medieval Studies at Princeton University. We would like to thank the Global Scholars Program, funded through the Council on International Teaching and Research and the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University for the funds needed to support this workshop.
All sessions will be held on Marx Hall 201 in the campus of Princeton University. The seminar is free and open to all interested participants.
For more information, contact Daniel Garber ([email protected]).