Venue: Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, Seminar room.
Address:
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
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