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AUSTRALASIAN SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY 2019

Sponsored by

Australian Research CouncilUQ Institute of Advanced Studies

in the Humanities

UQ School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry University of California Los Angeles

UQ Critical Thinking Project

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Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 2019The early modern period in the history of philosophy was a period of radical transformation – in philosophy, science, politics and religion, and in our relationship to nature and to each other. The focus of this conference is on those early modern concepts, theories, or figures that transformed standard ways of thinking in the period, or that changed the form and nature of philosophy itself.

The panel themes are (1) Women and Power; (2) Metaphysics, Science and Religion; and (3) State and Secularism. A variety of other topics are addressed in individual presentations by an international contingent of specialists in early modern philosophy.

The Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 2019, is sponsored by the Australian Research Council, the University of Queensland School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, the University of Queensland Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and the Philosophy Department of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The organisers of ASEMP2019 are:

Professor Deborah Brown (UQ)A/Professor Anik WaldowA/Professor Jacquie Broad (Monash)A/Professor Hsueh Qu (NUS)

ASEMP 20194

10.45am - 11.05am

Monday, 24 November

Global Change Institute (271/273)

Panel: Women and Power

Sandrine BergesFrom Rousseau to Laura Ingalls Wilder: The ascension of women to the power of domesticity in 18th century France and America.

Allauren ForbesMary Wollstonecraft’s Political Conception of Marriage: Friendship, Autonomy, and Property.

Diane ZetlinThe Achilles’ heel of patriarchy: Hobbes and Harvey.

Light Breakfast8.30am - 9.00am

9.00am - 10.45am

Morning Tea

12.15pm - 1:15pm

11.05am - 12.15pm Keynote Address

Marguerite DeslauriersArguing for the Superiority of Women in the Seventeenth Century

Lunch

2.00pm - 2:05pm Short Break

1.15pm - 2.00pm Maks SipowiczMargaret Cavendish, the Cartesian Passions, and Health

Global Change Institute (275)


Lucinda NicollsDescartes on Infant and Adult Thought

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Hannah LingierPiety, poetry, philosophy: imagination in David Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion

Steele Building (03 - 329)


Michael LeBuffeComplex Individuals in Spinoza: The State and the Citizen

2.50pm - 3:15pm Afternoon Tea

João CarvalhoSpinoza on teleology and the free man

4.00pm - 4.05pm Short Break

3.15pm - 4.00pm


Keynote Address

Lisa ShapiroThe Challenges of Being a Thinking Thing

4.05pm - 5.30pm

5.30pm - 7.00pm Reception

Students’ Digital ExhibitionQueensland Shakespeare Ensemble: Half Hour Hamlet

2.05pm - 2:50pm

Global Change Institute (Atrium)


ASEMP 20196

Tuesday, 25 November

10.45am - 11.05am


Panel: State and Separation of Powers

Julie KleinThe Ambivalent Politics of Religion in Hobbes and Spinoza

Sandra FieldA Puzzle for Hobbes’s Conception of Political Unity

Peter AnsteyPolitical Principles and the Separation of Powers


9.00am - 10.45am

Martina ReuterThe Role of the Other in Poulain de la Barre’s Account of Self-Knowledge

Forgan Smith (01 - E215)

Morning Tea

12.15pm - 1:15pm

11.05am - 12.15pm Keynote Address

Margaret SchabasDavid Hume as a Proto-Weberian: Commerce, Protestantism, and Secular Culture

Lunch


GCI (271/273)

1.15pm - 2.00pm Dominic DimechThe Relevance of Fictions for Hume’s Epistemology

Mikko YrjönsuuriPersonhood and moral agency - origins of the early modern theories

Tsuyoshi MatsudaLeibniz’s relationalism of actual time

2.05pm - 2.50pm

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2.50pm - 3.15pm Afternoon Tea

Forgan Smith (01 - E215)GCI (271/273)

Ville PaukkonenBerkeley’s proto-”expressivist” theory of self-knowledge and mind in Alciphron VII

Fatema AmijeePlural Explanation in Leibniz

3.15pm - 4.00pm



John Carriero Spinoza, Intellectual Experience, and Beatitude

Calvin NormoreHobbes and Happiness

4.05pm - 5.30pm

ASEMP 20198

Wednesday, 25 November

10.45am - 11.05am


Panel: Metaphysics, Religion & the New Science

Vili LähteenmäkiCollins on Powers of Parts and Wholes, and Consciousness

Sukjae LeeLeibniz on Formal Causation

Elena GordonHume’s Final Words on Final Causes: Re-Reading Philo’s Objections to the Design Argument in the Dialogues


9.00am - 10.45am

Jan Levin PropachWhy God Thinks what He is Thinking? — An Argument for Grounding Divine Ideas in Divine Perfections within Leibniz’s Metaphysics.

Forgan Smith (01 - E215)

Morning Tea

12.15pm - 1:15pm

11.05am - 12.15pm

Lunch


GCI (271/273)

1.15pm - 2.00pm

Jack StetterSpinoza on Stupidity

Marco StorniDu Chatelet on Newtonian Attraction

Jun Young KimA Combinatorial Theory of Compossibility in Leibniz’s Metaphysics

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2.50pm - 3.15pm Afternoon Tea

Olga LenczewskaFrom Rationality to Morality: the Collective Development of Practical Reason in Kant’s Anthropological Writings

Jacob ZellmerSpinoza on the Separation of Philosophy and Theology

2.05pm - 2.50pm

Forgan Smith (01 - E215)GCI (271/273)

Shohei EdamuraInertia, Science, and Substantial Forms in Leibniz’s Early Metaphysics

Daryl OoiLiberty, Necessity and the Problem of Evil in Hume’s Enquiry concerning Human Understanding


Nicholas CurrieThe Early Modern Logic of Representations

Raman SachdevDescartes and Skepticism

3.15pm - 4.00pm

4.05pm - 5.30pm

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Session Chairs

9.00am - 10.45am

Monday, 25 November

11.05am - 12.15pm

1.15pm - 2.00pm

2.05pm - 2.50pm

3.15pm - 4.00pm

4.05pm - 5.30pm

Marguerite Deslauriers

Calvin Normore

Diane Zetlin




Olga Lenczewska


Lisa ShapiroSandra Field

Jacob Zellmer

Deborah Brown


9.00am - 10.45am

Tuesday, 26 November

11.05am - 12.15pm

1.15pm - 2.00pm

2.05pm - 2.50pm

3.15pm - 4.00pm

4.05pm - 5.30pm

Qu Hsueh

Peter Anstey

Julie Klein


Forgan Smith (01 - E215)Global Change Institute (271/273)

Hannah Lingier

Lisa ShapiroVili Lähteenmäki

Allauren ForbesJacob Zellmer

Jacqueline Broad




9.00am - 10.45am

Wednesday, 27 November

1.15pm - 2.00pm

2.05pm - 2.50pm

3.15pm - 4.00pm

4.05pm - 5.30pm

Anik Waldow

11.05am - 12.15pm

Peter Anstey


Forgan Smith (01 - E215)Global Change Institute (271/273)

Allauren Forbes

Vili LähteenmäkiJoão Carvalho

Olga LenczewskaJulie Klein

Sandra Field Lisa Shapiro

Martina ReuterDiane Zetlin

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