Tuesday 5 July
11:00 am: Opening of the Seminar
11:15 am: Ilgin Aksoy (Memorial University of Newfoundland), A Power-Centered Mereological Reconstruction of the Substance-Mode relation in Spinozist Ontology
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm: Oberto Marrama (Oulo University), Matérialisme et panpsychisme au 17e siècle : Cavendish, Hobbes et Spinoza
Wednesday 6 July
9:30 am: Syliane Malinowski-Charles (UQTR), Certitude et idée d’idée chez Spinoza
11:15 am: Anaïs Delambre (Université de Montréal), La religion philosophique de Spinoza. Dialogue entre C. Gebhardt et F. Alquié
12:45 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm: Calvin Normore (UCLA, McGill University, University of Queensland), Definition, Hobbes and Medieval Nominalism
3:30 pm: Yining Wu (Temple University), The Arrow by the Archer: Extrinsic Teleology in Cudworth’s Plastic Natures
Thursday 7 July
9:30 am: Emanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University), Elizabeth on Attributal Predication: Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Dualism
11:15 am: Deborah Brown (University of Queensland), The Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Descartes
12:45 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm: Lawrence Nolan (Cal State, Long Beach), Descartes’ Beast-Machine Doctrine
3:30 pm: Aurélien Chukurian (Université de Genève), Le cartésianisme au miroir de l’eucharistie
Friday 8 July
9:30 am: Nabeel Hamid (Concordia University), Wolff on Substance, Power, Force
11:15 am: Filippo Costantini (Ca’Foscari University, Venice, and McMaster University), Leibniz’s Characterization of Quantity
12:45 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm: Nicholas Michiele (University of Western Ontario), Leibniz’s Mereology: What Can a Monad be Understood as if it is not a ‘Part’ of Body?
3:30 pm: Glenn Hartz (The Ohio State University), What Strawson Should Have Said about Leibnizean Monads
Main Organiser
Tom Vinci (vinci@dal.ca)
Coorganiser
Syliane Charles (syliane.charles@uqtr.ca)
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