Phil unit organizes a seminar to celebarate our docent, professor John Carriero’s (UCLA) 60 birthday. Two-day seminar takes place on September 6-7, 2016, at Department of Philosophy (Assistentinkatu 7), University of Turku, and is titled “A lifelong Quest for the Natural Light”.
Program:
Tuesday 6th September 2016
10.45 Opening words: Joseph Almog
11.00 Mandel Cabrera: Naturalism, Resignation, and the Religious Temperament in Spinoza
12.00 Jani Sinokki: Descartes and the Voluntarist Axiom
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Valtteri Viljanen: Spinoza’s Ontology Geometrically Illustrated: A Reading of Ethics 2p8s
15.30 Arto Repo and Peter Myrdal: Leibniz on Concepts
Wednesday 7th September 2016
10.00 Lilli Alanen: Sympathy and Nature in Hume’s Anatomy of the Moral Mind
11.00 Camilla Serck-Hanssen: From Nothing to Something – The Logical Error of Special Metaphysics
12.00 Joe Hwang: Perceiving Ideas
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Joseph Almog: TBA
15.00 Karolina Hübner: Spinoza on Identity
16.00 Olli Koistinen and Hemmo Laiho: Descartes and Kant: I am, I exist
More information: olli.koistinen@utu.fi