[SydPhil] Registration is now open: Deviant Thinking: Early Modern Philosophy and the Enlightenment

[Anik Waldow]

Deviant Thinking: Early Modern Philosophy and the Enlightenment
University of Sydney
What the Enlightenment stands for has been subject to much discussion in recent years, and many valuable contributions have been made that help us to understand better the significance of this period. This conference takes this discussion further by connecting up the Enlightenment with the early modern period and the “rebellious” ideas that were already formulated and passed around during this time. The papers of this conference bring into focus the many challenges philosophers of the 17th and 18th century posed to established intellectual, political, religious and social norms. These challenges touch on a diverse range of topics, spanning from fundamental questions concerning the status of the human being in the natural world, and the prospect of gaining knowledge of that world, to the redefinition of sentiment and affect as defining features of the moral potential of humanity. Reflections on the foundations of the state, self-governance and the rights of individuals and groups often followed on from these questions and thereby led to a novel engagement with the conditions that structure and shape human life.

SIHN's Enlightenment Thinking Project will be hosting this conference, a central aim of which is to use the wider discussion of 17th- and 18th-century thought to launch a new series, the Australasian Seminar in Early Modern in Philosophy (ASEMP). Our speakers have backgrounds in philosophy, intellectual history, history and philosophy and science and art history and will address questions about the relevance of deviant thinking from a range of different methodological angels. In addition to encouraging interdisciplinary discourse, the conference seeks to support the work of early career researchers through our Young Scholar Panel and an accompanying mentoring programme on the third day.

For more information go to  http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/news-events/deviant-thinking/index.shtml

Registration is free, but we would like to get a sense of numbers and who is going to be with us. Please register here: http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/news-events/deviant-thinking/registration.php

The conference will take place in the Veterinarian Science Conference Centre.

Click here for a campus map:  VSCC<https://sydney.edu.au/vetscience/partners/ClinicalExternship/documents/Sydney_VeterianrySciencePrecinct_Map.pdf>

Plenary Session and Panels:
VSCC Lecture Theatre 208 (Webster)
Parallel Sessions:
A) VSCC Seminar Room 115
B) VSCC Seminar Room 218
Registration and coffee breaks:
VSCC Pfizer Foyer Level 1




Wednesday, 15th November

8.45-9.00 Welcome

9.00-10.30
PANEL: DEVIANT RELIGION
Michael Olson (Macquarie): “Kant’s Deviant Soul”
Moira Gatens (Sydney): “Spinoza’s Deviant God”
Dejan Simkovic (Notre Dame Australia): “Is (Mono)theism an Option for Epistemically Virtuous Humean Agents?”

10.30-11.00: Morning Tea

11.00-11.45
PARALLEL SESSIONS:


A)   Peter Anstey (Sydney): “From Speculative Philosopher to Trail Blazer: The Rehabilitation of Descartes in the Enlightenment”



B)   Aurelia Armstrong (Queensland): “Activity, Passivity and Agreement in Nature: Spinoza’s Relational Ethics”



11.50-12.35
PARALLEL SESSIONS:


A)   Peter Cryle (Queensland): “Deviancy and Libertinage: An Intellectual Historian’s Perspective”



B)   John Carriero (UCLA): “Spinoza and Our Ontological Demotion”

12.35-2.00 Lunch

2.00-2.45
PARALLEL SESSIONS:



A)   Sandra Field (Yale-NUS): “The Power of Natural and Human Bodies”



B)  Hsueh Qu (NUS): “Answering Hume’s Problem of Induction: Kant’s Second Analogy and the Synthetic A Priori”



2.50-3.35
PARALLEL SESSIONS:



A)   Diane Zetlin (Queensland): “Love, Sex and Fear: Re-reading Thomas Hobbes”



B)  Elena Gordon (Sydney): “Hume’s Copy Principle, Fictions and Legitimate Combinations of Ideas”

3.35-4.00 Coffee Break

4.00-5.30

PLENARY SESSION:

Peter Kail (Oxford): “Berkeley on Projection”






Thursday, 16th November

9.00-9.45
PARALLEL SESSIONS:


A)   Geoff Kemp (Auckland): “Locke and Tindal on Liberty of the Press and Public Opinion: Deviating Ways of Thinking”



B)   Dominic Dimech (Sydney): “Relative Ideas and the Veil of Perception”


9.50-10.35
PARALLEL SESSIONS:


A)   Anik Waldow (Sydney)/Vili Laehteenmaeki (Helsinki): “How Subjectivist is Locke’s Account of Personhood?”



B)   Naohito Mori (Kochi): “On Whether the Tudor Government was an “Absolute Monarchy”: Reconsidering Hume’s View of Authority, Laws and Liberty”

10.35-11.05: Morning Tea


11.05-12.35

PLENARY SESSION: AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS

DESCARTES AND THE ONTOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE (DEBORAH BROWN AND CALVIN NORMORE)



Antonia Lolordo (Virginia)

Amy Schmitter (Alberta)

Deborah Brown (Queensland)

12.35-2.00 Lunch

2.00-2.45
PARALLEL SESSIONS:



A)   Ryan Walter (Queensland): “Malthus, Enthusiasm, and the Enlightenment”



B)  Lisa Hill (Adelaide): “Anti-Rationalism in the Scottish Enlightment Thought: the Social  Thought of the Two Adams”




2.50-3.35
PARALLEL SESSIONS:



A)   Inja Stracenski (Sydney): “Reflections on the Foundations of the State”



B)   John Thrasher (Monash): “Adam Smith, Contractarian”

3.35-3.55 Coffee Break

3.55-4.40
PARALLEL SESSIONS:



A)   Laura Kotevska (UNSW): “Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole and the Critique of Mathematics”



B)  John Whipple (UIC): “Deviant Metaphysical Ideas in Leibniz’s Theodicy”



4.45-6.15

PANEL: WOMEN, REVOLUTION, REPUBLICANISM

Sandrine Berges (Bilkent): “Equality in the Writings of Republican Women Philosophers of the French Revolution”

Karen Green (Melbourne): “The Rights of Woman and the Equal rights of Men”

Patrick Ball (UPenn): “Beauty, Patriarchy and Revolution in the Work of Mary Wollstonecraft”





Friday, 17th November


9.00-9.45
PARALLEL SESSIONS:


A)   Jacqueline Broad (Monash): “Dignity, Cartesian Metaphysics, and Women’s Rights, 1650-1750”



B)   Jennifer Milam (Sydney): “Greuze Girls and the Painterly Embodiment of Sexual Pleasure”

9.45-10.15: Morning Tea


10.15-11.45

INTERDISCIPLINARY YOUNG SCHOLAR PANEL: DEVIANT ART

Chair: Jennifer Milam (Sydney)

Emma Gleadhill (Sydney): “Deviant Dilettanti: Eighteenth-Century Female Grand Tourists”

Henry Martyn Lloyd (Queensland): “On the Good, the Beautiful, and the Abhorrent: Sade’s Aesthetics”

Melanie Cooper (Adelaide): “Divine Inebriation: Adopting the Guise of Bacchus in the Eighteenth Century”

11.45-1.45 Lunch/Mentoring Sessions

1.45-2.30
PARALLEL SESSIONS:



A)   Max Sipowicz (Monash): “Descartes on Virtue and the Passions”



B)   Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney): “What is Civilization?: Voltaire and The Problem of China”

2.30-3.00 Coffee Break

3.00-3.45
PARALLEL SESSIONS:



A)   Michael LeBuffe (Otago): “Descartes's Wax Example”



B)   Toshiro Osawa (Macquarie): “The Religious (Un-)Grounding of Ethics: Kant’s Debt to Baumgarten”





4.00-5.30

PLENARY SESSION:

Cecilia Lim (NUS): “Descartes, La Mettrie and Materialism”





ANIK WALDOW | Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy | School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
S404, Quadrangle Building A14 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 | Australia
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