[SydPhil] Workshop: Conceptions of the Mind from Ancient to Early Modern Philosophy

[Anik Waldow]

Conceptions of the Mind: From Ancient to Early Modern Philosophy



Date: 16th March 2026

Location: University of Sydney, A 14 Quadrangle, Room N 494

Contact anik.waldow at sydney.edu.au



9.15-10.00 David Bronstein (Notre Dame Sydney): “Aristotle’s Theory of Science"



Coffee Break



10.15-11.00 Dominik Perler (Humboldt University): "Olivi on Dysfunctional Persons"

11.00-11.45 Sam Kaldas (Notre Dame Sydney): “What is an Early Modern Platonist?"



Lunch Break



13.30-14.15 Dario Perinetti (University of Quebec): "The Unbearable Lightness of Grotius’s Moral Philosophy."

14.15-15.30 Deborah Brown (University of Queensland): “The Defining Virtue: Hobbes and Hume on Curiosity”



Coffee Break



15.45-16.30 Gabriel Watts (Sydney): “Humean Security”

16.30-17.15 Anik Waldow (Sydney): “Contemptuous Minds and the Inability to see the Other.”




ANIK WALDOW | Professor of Philosophy | FAHA

Department of Philosophy | School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry

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Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature, OUP, 2020

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