Philosophy in the 17th Century: Spinoza, Descartes, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke
July 1 Monday
17:30 Meeting in the temple of Athena; tour of the ancient city of Assos; opening speech of Örsan K. Öymen in the ancient theater; wine near the ancient city walls.
21:00 Dinner at the harbour (Nazlıhan Hotel Restaurant)
July 2 Tuesday
14:00 Michael Jacovides (Purdue University): “The Hobbesian Background to Locke’s Chapter on Identity”
15:30 Vili Lahteenmaki (University of Oulu): “Descartes and Locke on Ideas and Self-Cognition”
17:00 Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge): “Love and Reason: Leibniz and Du Châtelet on the Foundations of Morality”
18:30 Samuel Newlands (University of Notre Dame): “An Early Modern Metaphysics of Evil”
21:00 Dinner at the harbour (Assos Troy Port Hotel Restaurant
July 3 Wednesday
14:00 John Carriero (University of California Los Angeles/Berkeley): “Ontological Demotion, Free Will, and Repentance in Spinoza”
15:30 Martin Lin (Rutgers University): “Spinoza’s Pluralism: Ontological or Conceptual?”
17:00 Karolina Hübner (Cornell University): “Spinoza on Infinite Thought”
18:30 Justin Steinberg (City University of New York): “That Intelligible Object of Desire: Spinoza on Cupiditas”
July 4 Thursday
15:00 Visit to the museum and ancient city of Troy
21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
PS: All meetings will take place in the Assos Terrace Hotel (90-286-7640285). The language of the talks and discussion is English. There will be no translation into the Turkish.
About the speakers:
John Carriero: California Üniversitesi (Los Angeles/Berkeley), Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, Descartes, Spinoza. He is the author of the book “Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes’s ‘Meditations’” and of numerous articles in his area of research.
Michael Jacovides: Purdue University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, British empiricism, Locke, Hume. He is the author of the book “Locke’s Image of the World” and of numerous articles in his area of research.
Samuel Newlands: University of Notre Dame, Department of Philosophy. (Professor/Chairperson). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Spinoza, Leibniz. He is the author of the book “Reconceiving Spinoza” and of numerous articles in his area of research.
Martin Lin: Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, metaphysics, rationalism. He is the author of the book “Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza’s Metaphysics” and of numerous articles in his area of research.
Justin Steinberg: City University of New York, Department of Philosophy. (Professor). Areas of interest and research: Renaissance and early modern philosophy, ethics, moral psychology, political philosophy. He is the author of the books “Spinoza’s Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear” and “Spinoza” (with Valtteri Viljanen) and of numerous articles in his area of research.
Karolina Hübner: Cornell University, Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, philosophical theology, idealism, philosophy of mind, Spinoza, Descartes. She is the author of numerous articles in her area of research.
Julia Borcherding: University of Cambridge, Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, ethics, epistemology, feminism, Leibniz, Cavendish, Du Chatelet, Spinoza, Locke. She is the author of numerous articles in her area of research.
Vili Lahteenmaki: University of Oulo, Department of Philosophy. (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, philosophy of mind and self, metaphysics, epistemology, Descartes, Locke. He is the author of numerous articles in his areas of research.
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