Quite a few papers on Spinoza (and many on other interesting topics) at the Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy happening later this week.
Programme below.
More info on the conference website.
Thursday 5 May
9.00-9.15 Welcome and Coffee.
Session I: Hobbes and Spinoza
9.15-10.00 Maximilian Jaede (St. Andrews): ‘Hobbes’s Critique of Natural Sociability Reconsidered’
10.00-10.45 Albert Gootjes (Utrecht): ‘How to Refute Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise: The Anti-Spinoza Campaign of the Utrecht Cartesians’
10.45-11.00 Break
Session II: Cambridge Platonism
11.00-11.45 Matthew Leisinger (Yale): ‘Cudworth’s Moral Vision’
11.45-12.30 Christ Meyns (Cambridge/University College London): ‘Henry More against Monopsychism’
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Keynote 1
14.00-15.00 Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge): ‘Women and Political Philosophy in Les siècles de la femme’
15.00-15.30 Break
Session III: Spinoza
15.30-16.15 Alex Silverman (Chicago): ‘The Disappearance of “Substance”: A Textual Oddity in Spinoza’s Corpus’
16.15-17.00 Alexander Douglas (Heythrop College/St. Andrews): ‘Spinoza and Money’
17.00-17.15 Break
Special Session: SSEMP Essay Prize winner
17.15-18.00 Takaharu Oda (Groningen): ‘Berkeley’s Arguable Concurrentism’
Friday 6 May
9.30-9.45 Coffee
Session IV: Bayle and Leibniz
9.45-10.30 Mara van der Lugt (Göttingen): ‘Pain, Pessimism and the Problem of Evil in Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire (1696)’
10.30-11.15 Christopher Noble (Villanova): ‘Leibniz on Knowledge and Action in Essais de théodicée, § 403’
11.15-11.30 Break
Keynote 2
11.30-12.30 Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham): ‘Rewriting the Mind: Childhood Cognition and the Performance of Reason, 1700-1820’
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Session V: The Scottish Enlightenment
14.00-14.45 Alessio Vaccari (Sapienza, Rome): ‘Hume on Resentment, Justice, and the Origins of Society’
14.45-15.30 Sonia Boussange-Andrei (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne): ‘On Adam Ferguson’s Critique of Adam Smith’s Theory of Sympathy’
15.30-16.00 Break
Session VI: The French Enlightenment
16.00-16.45 Jeremy Dunham (Sheffield): ‘Condillac on the Acquisition of Cognitive Habits’
16.45-17.30 Jared Holley (Chicago): ‘Refined Epicureanism and Rousseau’s Political Thought’
London Spinoza Circle 