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The 12th Québec Seminar in Modern Philosophy will be held from 5 to 7 July 2023 at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

We will be delighted to welcome the following guest speakers: David Scott (University of Victoria) and Philip Knee (Université Laval).

1:00 pm-2:15 pm: Guest speaker | Philip Knee (Université Laval), S’engager sans fronder. Sur la volonté politique chez Pascal [Abstract]

2:45 pm-3:45 pm: Laura Herrera Castillo (Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität), Caroline in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence or on how to make history of philosophy [Abstract]

4:00 pm-5:15 pm: Alfredo Gatto (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano), Spinozisme cartésien : Leibniz comme historien de la philosophie [Abstract]

9:00 am-10:15 am: Marcelo Bonanno (UNIFESP, Brazil and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), The New Atlantis and Bacon’s Political Pragmatism [Abstract]

10:30 am-11:45 am: Thomas Minguy (McGill University), La critique spinoziste de l’utopie comme genre littéraire [Abstract] [Paper]

1:30 pm-2:45 pm: Andreea Mihali (Wilfrid Laurier University), Descartes and his Audience [Abstract]

3:00 pm-4:15 pm: Guest speaker | David Scott (University of Victoria), On Descartes’ Notion of the Extensiveness of Intellect and Will [Abstract]

9:00 am-10:15 am: Steven Barbone (San Diego State University), Priority among the Attributes [Abstract]

10:30 am-11:45 am: Brandon Smith (McGill University), Spinoza’s Early Modern Eudaimonism: Corporeal and Intellectual Flourishing [Abstract]

1:30 pm-2:45 pm: Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Tel-Aviv University), Acquiescentia and Power in Spinoza’s Ethics [Abstract]

3:00 pm-4:15 pm: Francis Brassard (Rochester Institute of Technology, Croatia), La philosophie naturelle de Ruđer Bošković : une première théorie moderne du tout? [Abstract] [Paper]

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