QUEBEC SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

It should be noted that the day before the beginning of the conference, Chantal Jaquet (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) will give an additional talk for the department of philosophy and applied ethics of the Université de Sherbrooke Le corps sentant ou la puissance de l’odoratSeptember 28, 2011 | 5:00 – 6:30 pm Salon du Carrefour de l’information Université de Sherbrooke Everyone is invited to attend.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

First Workshop Université de Sherbrooke, Salon du Carrefour de l’information Chair : Sébastien Charles
2:45 – 3:00 pm		Welcoming of the attendees and opening of the seminar
3:00 – 4:00 pm		Abel Franco (California State U., Northridge): “The Unity of Descartes’ Theory of Emotions”
4:00 – 5:00 pm		Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin (Université de Lyon III): “L’esprit a-t-il un sexe? Fénelon, Malebranche, Fontenelle, Poulain de la Barre”
First Invited Speaker Bishop’s University, McGreer 100 Chair : Syliane Malinowski-Charles
6:00 – 7:30 pm		Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania): “Descartes on Sensory Representation, Objective Reality, and Material Falsity”

Friday, September 30, 2011

Second Workshop Manoir Hovey, Abénaki Room Chair : Sébastien Charles
9:30 – 10:30 am		Ethel Rocha (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro): “Infinity of Will in Men and in God”
10:30 – 11:30 am		Julia von Bodelschwingh (Yale University): « Final Causation and the Fundamental Difference Between Free and Unfree Actions in Leibniz »
Third Workshop Manoir Hovey, Abénaki Room Chair : Syliane Malinowski-Charles
1:00 – 2:00 pm		Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College, St. Paul, MN): “Hobbes on the Reality of Time”
2:00 – 3:00 pm		Melissa Frankel (Carleton University): “Berkeley on Malebranche on Abstraction”
3:00 – 3:30 pm		Coffee break
Second Invited Speaker Manoir Hovey, Abenaki Room Chair : Sébastien Charles
3:30 – 5:00 pm		Chantal Jaquet (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne): “Corps et esprit, la logique de l’alternance chez Spinoza”

Saturday, October 1^st, 2011

Fourth Workshop Manoir Hovey, Abenaki Room Chair : Syliane Malinowski-Charles
9:30 – 10:30 am		Sandra Field (Princeton University): “Spinoza and Political Utopianism”
10:30 – 11:30 am		Emilietta Murgia (Université Grenoble II): “Rousseau et Hobbes : peut-on parler d’une continuité dans la rupture?”