The Fifth Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Monday, May 28, 2018, 10:00 am – Tuesday, May 29, 2018, 6:00 pm

The Fifth Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

In a joint effort by philosophers in Finland and Hungary, the Seminar was founded to promote international cooperation among scholars of seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy. The previous meeting was held in 2017 in Turku, Finland. This will be the fifth meeting in a continuous series of seminars. For more information, please see the website of the seminar series.

Organizing and program committee: Mike Griffin (CEU), Vili Lähteenmäki (Helsinki), Judit Szalai (ELTE), and Valtteri Viljanen (Turku).

PROGRAM
Monday, 28 May Location: N15 106
10.00	Anna Ortín Nadal (Edinburgh): Descartes’ Criterion for the Distinction Between Primary and Secondary Qualities
11.15	Saja Parvizian (UIC): Descartes on the Problem of Knowledge Preservation
12.30	Lunch break
14.00	Robert Matyasi (Toronto): Spinoza on Objective Being and Modality
15.15	Barnaby R. Hutchins (Ghent/Alpen-Adria): Spinoza and the Attributes: The Standpoint Interpretation
16.30	Banafsheh Beizaei (NYU): Conception and the Role of the Insofar in Spinoza’s Ethics
Tuesday, 29 May Location: N11 004 Smart Room
10.00	Thomas Feeney (University of Saint Thomas (MN)): Leibniz’s Ideal Monism, or What It Takes to be a Substance
11.15	Andrew Ward (York): How Sceptical is Hume’s Theory of Personal Identity?
12:30	Lunch break
14.00	Charles T. Wolfe (IAS CEU/Ghent): Locke and Projects for Naturalizing the Mind in the 18th Century
15.15	Umrao Sethi (Lehman College, CUNY): Mind-Dependence in Berkeley and the Problem of Perception

Monday, May 28, 2018 - 8:00AM - Tuesday, May 29, 2018 - 4:00PM Add to Calendar 2018-05-28 08:00:00 2018-05-29 16:00:00 The Fifth Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy The Fifth Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy In a joint effort by philosophers in Finland and Hungary, the Seminar was founded to promote international cooperation among scholars of seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy. The previous meeting was held in 2017 in Turku, Finland. This will be the fifth meeting in a continuous series of seminars. For more information, please see the website of the seminar series. Organizing and program committee: Mike Griffin (CEU), Vili Lähteenmäki (Helsinki), Judit Szalai (ELTE), and Valtteri Viljanen (Turku). PROGRAM Monday, 28 MayLocation: N15 106 10.00 Anna Ortín Nadal (Edinburgh):Descartes’ Criterion for the Distinction Between Primary and Secondary Qualities 11.15 Saja Parvizian (UIC):Descartes on the Problem of Knowledge Preservation 12.30 Lunch break 14.00 Robert Matyasi (Toronto):Spinoza on Objective Being and Modality 15.15 Barnaby R. Hutchins (Ghent/Alpen-Adria):Spinoza and the Attributes: The Standpoint Interpretation 16.30 Banafsheh Beizaei (NYU):Conception and the Role of the Insofar in Spinoza’s Ethics Tuesday, 29 MayLocation: N11 004 Smart Room 10.00 Thomas Feeney (University of Saint Thomas (MN)):Leibniz’s Ideal Monism, or What It Takes to be a Substance 11.15 Andrew Ward (York):How Sceptical is Hume’s Theory of Personal Identity? 12:30 Lunch break 14.00 Charles T. Wolfe (IAS CEU/Ghent):Locke and Projects for Naturalizing the Mind in the 18th Century 15.15 Umrao Sethi (Lehman College, CUNY):Mind-Dependence in Berkeley and the Problem of Perception UTC public

Monday

May

2018

10:00AM

Budapest Site

Nador u. 15

Host

Department of Philosophy

Audience

Public

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