2014 Edition's Program and Abstracts

The 6th Edition of the Quebec Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will be held from September 25th to 27th 2014. We will have the pleasure to receive Emanuela Scribano (Université de Venise Ca' Foscari) et Thomas M. Lennon (University of Western Ontario) as keynote speakers. The participation of our guest speaker Plinio J. Smith (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) will be supported by a grant from the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie.

Thursday September 25th 2014, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Pavillon Pierre-Boucher, Henri Audet room, 2002A)

2:00-3:00 PM : Welcome and Opening of the Seminar
2:30-3:30 PM : Monte Cook (University of Oklahoma), "Cartesianism and Body-Body Occasionalism" (abstract)
3:30-4:30 PM : Plinio Junqueira Smith (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), "Ego sum, ego existo : un pléonasme?" (abstract)
4:30-5:00 PM : Break
5:00-6:30 PM : First keynote lecture : Emanuela Scribano (University of Venise Ca' Foscari), "Connaissance et causalité à l'âge moderne" (abstract)

Friday September 26th 2014, Auberge du Lac-St-Pierre, Trois-Rivières

9:30-11:00 AM : Second keynote lecture : Thomas M. Lennon (University of Western Ontario), "Will and Freedom: The Theology of Descartes's View" (abstract)
11:00-12:00 AM : Lorenzo Vinciguerra (Université de Picardie Jules Vernes), "Spinoza et l'ontologie de la relation" (abstract)
12:00 AM-1:30 PM : Lunch
1:30-2:30 PM : Benoît Côté (Université de Sherbrooke), "Pourquoi m'efforcer, si mon sort est déterminé? La nécessité comme motivation à l'agir vertueux chez Joseph Priestley" (abstract)
2:30-3:30 PM : Daniel Dumouchel (Université de Montréal),"Peut-on philosopher pour soi-même? À propos des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire" (abstract)
3:30-4:00 PM : Break
4:00–5:00 PM : Daniel Collette (University of South Florida), "Descartes's horror vaccui: Rohault on the void and Pascal's Cartesian Critique" (abstract)

Saturday September 27th 2014 (Auberge du Lac-St-Pierre, Trois-Rivières)

9:30-10:30 AM : Francesco G. Sacco (University of Calabria), "Empricism vs Experimental Philosophy : Hooke and Locke on Experience and Matter" (abstract)
10:30-11:30 AM : Hugh Hunter (Algonquin College, Ottawa),"George Berkeley's Proof for the Existence of God" (abstract)
12:00 PM : Banquet

 Institutional support for 2014