A Conference in Honour of Lilli Alanen, 2-4 September 2016
Venue: Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, Seminar room.
Address: Fabianinkatu 22, Helsinki
Friday September 2
14.00 Opening words
14.15-15.30 Deborah Brown (Queensland): ”Interpreting the Person: Alanen on Descartes on Mind-Body Unity”
Chair: Pauliina Remes
15.45-17.00 Karolina Hübner (Toronto): “The thinking subject”
Chair: Leila Haaparanta
17.15-18.30 Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi): “Reasons to be good?”
Chair: Harry Alanen
Reception (all attendants are cordially invited)
Saturday September 3
09.00-10.15 John Carriero (UCLA): “Spinoza’s Theory of the Affects: Foundations”
Chair: Peter Myrdal
10.30-11.45 Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser): “Spinoza on Desire and Self- Consciousness”
Chair: Miira Tuominen
(Lunch)
13.15-14.30 Denis Kambouchner (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne): “Descartes and Spinoza on human love”
Chair: Virpi Mäkinen
14.45-15.45 Frans Svensson (Stockholm/Umeå): “Enjoying Freedom: Descartes on Virtue and Happiness”
Chair: Martin Gustafsson
16.15-17.30 Tomas Ekenberg (Uppsala): "The Problem of Evil, of Error, and of Mere Ignorance: An Augustinian Puzzle"
Commentator: Calvin Normore (UCLA)
Chair: Mikko Yrjönsuuri
Sunday September 4
10.00-11.15 Simo Knuuttila (Helsinki): “Christian Thomasius on passions”
Chair: José Filipe Pereira da Silva
11.30-12.30 Martina Reuter (Jyväskylä): “Poullain de la Barre’s Cartesian Feminism”
Chair: Mika Perälä
Attendance is free and everyone is welcome!
For more information see https://mindnaturemorality.wordpress.com
The conference is organized by some of Lilli Alanen’s students and colleagues, and is funded by the Societas Scientarium Fennica, the Oskar Öflunds stiftelse, and the Ella & Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, and with support from the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
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Peter Myrdal
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Philosophy
20014 University of Turku
Finland
peter.myrdal (a) utu.fi