March 2008

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hobbes-small.jpgAll Spring workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted. In order to receive a copy of the paper in advance, please e-mail cntodd@uchicago.edu.

Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

  • April 4 – Dan Kaufman | Colorado
    “Understanding the Real Distinction Between Descartes’ Corporeal Substances”
  • April 11 – Lydia Moland | Babson
    “A Global Rabble? Civil Society and Cosmopolitanism in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”
    This workshop is co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop
  • April 18 – Karolina Hubner | Chicago
    “Spinoza’s Two Ethics”
  • April 25 – Alex Anderson | Chicago
    “The Use of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Proofs of God’s Existence: Avicenna, Descartes, and Spinoza”
  • May 2 – Scott Ferguson | Chicago
    “On Spinoza’s Identification of Appetite and Desire”
  • May 16 – Rafeeq Hasan | Chicago
    “Virtues Natural and Artificial: Rousseau and Hume”
  • May 23 – Justin Shaddock | Chicago
    “The Dual-Argument Structure of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction”
  • May 30 – Thomas Pavel | Chicago
    “What the Early Modern Novel Can Tell Philosophers”
    This workshop is co-sponsored by the 18th & 19th Century Cultures Workshop

Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please call Charles Todd in advance at 617.888.1331.

Rudolph GocleniusThis Friday, March 7, the Early Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:

Andreas Blank | Herzog August Bibliothek

10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209

Coffee and snacks will be provided.

We will discuss his paper:

“Existential Dependence and the Question of Emanative Causation in Protestant Metaphysics, 1570-1620”

The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance. For a copy of the paper, e-mail cntodd@uchicago.edu.