2012 Edition's Program and Abstracts

The fourth edition of the Quebec Seminary in Early Modern Philosophy took place from the 27th to the 29th September of 2012. We had the pleasure to receive Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin at Madison) et François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal) as keynote speakers, with an additional talk by Pascal Taranto for the philosophy department of the University of Sherbrooke.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012, University of Sherbrooke (room A4-166)

Pascal Taranto (Université de Nantes), “Le déisme paradoxal de Joseph Priestley” (abstract)

Thursday, September 27, University of Sherbrooke, Council room (A4-166)

First workshop, chair: Sébastien Charles
2:45 pm: welcoming of the attendees and seminar opening
3:00 pm: Paola Nicolas (Université Paris 1-Sorbonne, “L'instrumentalisation au XVIIe siècle de la thèse cartésienne de l'idée claire et distincte de l'âme contre les théories jésuites de l'imputation de l'action : le cas Antoine Arnauld” (abstract)
4:00 pm: Mireille Mai Truong (Ryerson University), “Antinomies dans la pensée d'Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694)” (abstract)

First keynote speaker (Bishop's University, McGreer 100)
6:00 pm: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin at Madison), “Scripture and Truth : A Problem in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise” (abstract)

Friday, September 28, Hovey Manor, room Atkinson

Second workshop, chair: Syliane Malinowski-Charles
9:00 am: Filip A. A. Buyse (CHSPM – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), “The Distinction Between Primary Properties and Secondary Qualities in Galileo Galilei's Natural philosophy” (abstract)
10:30 am: Nausicaa E. Milani (Università di Parma), “Régis' Interpretation of the Nature of God and His Réfutation de l'opinion de Spinoza” (abstract)

Third workshop, chair: Pascal Taranto
1:00 pm: Han Thomas Adriaenssen (University of Groningen), “Anti-Skepticism in the Wake of Descartes : Pierre-Sylvain Régis” (abstract)
2:00 pm: Éric Marquer (CERPHI et CHSPM – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), “Locke : Communication civile et communication philosophique” (abstract)
3:00 pm: coffee break

Second keynote speaker (Hovey Manor, room Atkinson)
3:30 pm: François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal), “Charles Bonnet et l'immortalité des vivants selon Leibniz” (abstract)

Saturday, Septembre 29, Hovey Manor, room Atkinson

Fourth workshop, chair: Sébastien Charles
9:00 am: Julie Walsh (UQÀM) and Eric Stencil (Utah Valley University), “Malebranche's Metaphysics and Epistemology of Creation, Original Sin, and Christ” (abstract)
10:00 am: Angela Ferraro (Università di Roma – Université de Nantes), ““Sur le bord du précipice” : le paradoxe des postérités 'spinoziste' et 'berkeleyenne' de la philosophie de Malebranche en France au XVIIIe siècle” (abstract)

Institutional support for 2012