2009 Edition's Program and Abstracts

The first edition of the Quebec Seminary in Early Modern Philosophy took place from the 16th to the 18th October of 2009. We had the pleasure to receive Roger Ariew (University of South Florida) and Denis Kambouchner (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) as keynote speakers, with an additional talk for the philosophy department of the Université de Sherbrooke.

Thursday, October 15, 2009, University of Sherbrooke (Salon du carrefour de l'information)

Denis Kambouchner (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), “Descartes et l'indépendance de l'esprit”

Friday, October 16, 2009, University of Sherbrooke, Council room, A4-166

First workshop, chair: Sébastien Charles
2:00 pm: welcoming of the attendees and seminar opening
3:00 pm: Jay Mikelman (Boston University), “Electing the Leviathan” (abstract)
4:00 pm: Tinneke Beeckman (Fund for Scientific Research Flanders), “Quand le vice devient vertu: la radicalité de la philosophie politique de Spinoza” (abstract)

First keynote speaker (Bishop's University, McGreer 100)
6:00 pm: Roger Ariew (University of South Florida), “The Cogito in 1634-1635” (abstract)

Saturday, October 17, Hovey Manor, room Abenaki

Second workshop, chair: Sébastien Charles
9:00 am: Andrew R. Platt (University of Delaware), “The Evolution of the Concept of an Occasional Cause: Clauberg and La Forge on 'Occasions' for Sensation” (abstract)
11:00 am: Justin E. H. Smith (Université Concordia), “De la mécanique tractorique à la pyrotechnie: le modèle leibnizien de l'animal-machine” (abstract)

Third workshop, chair: Syliane Malinowski-Charles
1:45 pm: Graeme Hunter (University of Ottawa), “Tournament of Champions: Pascal Against Traditional Philosophy” (abstract)
3:00 pm: coffee break
3:15 pm: Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College, CUNY), “Sympathy, Representation, and Humanity in Spinoza's Ethics” (abstract)

Second keynote speaker (Hovey Manor, room Abenaki)
5:30 pm: Denis Kambouchner (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), “La transition Descartes-Spinoza en psychophysiologie”

Sunday, October 18, Hovey Manor, room Abenaki

Fourth workshop, chair: Syliane Malinowski-Charles
9:30 am: David Raynor (University of Ottawa), “The Intentionality of Perceptual Consciousness: Hume and Kant” (abstract)

Institutional Support for 2009