Date/Time
Date(s) - 22 Feb 2015
9:00 AM - 7:30 PM
Location
Princeton University
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Conference organized in connection with the visit of Global Scholar, Dominik Perler (Medieval Philosophy, Humboldt University)
ETERNITY IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Princeton University
9:00 COFFEE
9:30-10:35: Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University), “Spinoza’s Aeternitas as a Modal Concept”
10:45-11:50: Nadja German (Freiburg University), “Eternity and Some Philosophers: Early Islamic Thought”
LUNCH ON SITE
1:15-2:25: Zev Harvey (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Maimonides on Eternity”
2:35-3:40: Oded Schechter (Johns Hopkins University), “Spinoza: Eternity and Action”
COFFEE BREAK
4:10-5:15 Christina Van Dyke (Notre Dame/Calvin College), “A Sempiternity of Immortality! Yay?”
5:25-6:30: Calvin Normore (UCLA), “Models of Eternity and the Necessity of the Past: Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham”
6:30: RECEPTION
All sessions will be held in Marx 201 on the campus of Princeton University. Sessions are free and open to all. The conference was organized by Christina Van Dyke, Yitzhak Melamed, and Daniel Garber. We would like to thank the John Templeton Foundation and the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University for their support.
For further information, contact Daniel Garber ([email protected]).