2022 Meeting

In 2022, the first joint Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy / Séminaire québécois en philosophie moderne was held, a bilingual event co-organized by Thomas Vinci (Dalhousie University) and Syliane Malinowski-Charles (UQTR). The programme included both face-to-face and Zoom sessions.

Tuesday 5 July

11:00 am: Opening of the Seminar

11:15 am: Ilgin Aksoy (Memorial University of Newfoundland), A Power-Centered Mereological Reconstruction of the Substance-Mode relation in Spinozist Ontology

12:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm: Oberto Marrama (Oulo University), Matérialisme et panpsychisme au 17^e siècle : Cavendish, Hobbes et Spinoza

Wednesday 6 July

9:30 am: Syliane Malinowski-Charles (UQTR), Certitude et idée d’idée chez Spinoza

11:15 am: Anaïs Delambre (Université de Montréal), La religion philosophique de Spinoza. Dialogue entre C. Gebhardt et F. Alquié

12:45 pm: Lunch

1:45 pm: Calvin Normore (UCLA, McGill University, University of Queensland), Definition, Hobbes and Medieval Nominalism

3:30 pm: Yining Wu (Temple University), The Arrow by the Archer: Extrinsic Teleology in Cudworth’s Plastic Natures

Thursday 7 July

9:30 am: Emanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University), Elizabeth on Attributal Predication: Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Dualism

11:15 am: Deborah Brown (University of Queensland), The Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Descartes

12:45 pm: Lunch

1:45 pm: Lawrence Nolan (Cal State, Long Beach), Descartes’ Beast-Machine Doctrine

3:30 pm: Aurélien Chukurian (Université de Genève), Le cartésianisme au miroir de l’eucharistie

Friday 8 July

9:30 am: Nabeel Hamid (Concordia University), Wolff on Substance, Power, Force

11:15 am: Filippo Costantini (Ca’Foscari University, Venice, and McMaster University), Leibniz’s Characterization of Quantity

12:45 pm: Lunch

1:45 pm: Nicholas Michiele (University of Western Ontario), Leibniz’s Mereology: What Can a Monad be Understood as if it is not a ‘Part’ of Body?

3:30 pm: Glenn Hartz (The Ohio State University), What Strawson Should Have Said about Leibnizean Monads

Main Organiser

Tom Vinci (vinci@dal.ca)

Coorganiser

Syliane Charles (syliane.charles@uqtr.ca)

Institutional Supports