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2010

2010 Edition's Program and Abstracts

The second edition of the Quebec Seminary in Early Modern Philosophy took place from the 23rd to the 25th September of 2010. We had the pleasure to receive Daniel Garber (Princeton University) and Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale) as keynote speakers, with an additional talk for the philosophy department of the Université de Sherbrooke.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, University of Sherbrooke (Salon du carrefour de l'information)

Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale), “Descartes et le scepticisme de son temps

Thursday, Septembre 23, 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: Sébastien Prat (Université de Montréal), “L'inconstance: concept clé du scepticisme des Essais de Montaigne” (abstract)
4:00 pm: Jacqueline Lagrée (Université de Rennes I), “Politique et guerre dans le néostoïcisme” (abstract)

First keynote speaker (Bishop's University, McGreer 100)
6:00 pm: Daniel Garber (Princeton University), “Hobbes and Spinoza on Human Nature” (abstract)

Friday, September 24, Hovey Manor, room Abenaki

Second workshop, chair: Syliane Malinowski-Charles
9h30 am: Radu Toderici (Babeş-Bolyai University), “The Dual Role of Imagination in Marin Mersenne's Writings” (abstract)
10h30 am: Julie R. Klein (Villanova University), “Truth and Adequacy in Descartes and Spinoza” (abstract)

Third workshop, chair: Luiz Eva
1:30 pm: Adam Harmer (University of Toronto), “Discreteness Matters: Leibniz on Discrete Quantity and the Physical World” (abstract)
2:30 pm: Claire Crignon (Université de Bourgogne), “Le rôle de la révolution médicale et physiologique dans l'émergence du projet philosophique d'une science de l'homme : le cas Walter Charleton (1619-1707)” (abstract)
3:30 pm: coffee break

Second keynote speaker (Manoir Hovey, room Abenaki)
4:30 pm: Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale), “Anéantissement et recréation du monde : Hobbes et Gassendi” (abstract)

Saturday, Septembre 25, Hovey Manor, room Abenaki

Fourth workshop, chair: Sébastien Charles
9:30 am: Michael D. Burroughs (University of Memphis), “Conflicting Sentiments: Mandeville, Hutcheson and Hume on Virtue and Self-Interest” (abstract)
10:30 am: Giovanni B. Grandi (University of Britis:00Columbia Okanagan), “The Spatiality of Colour Sensations in Reid” (abstract)

 

Institutional support for 2010