THE MIDWEST SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY and CENTRE D'ÉTUDES CARTÉSIENNES (Paris-Sorbonne)

Spring Meeting, May 1-3, 1998 at The University of Chicago

 Program

Friday, May 1

• 2      Stephen Voss, (Bogazici University, Istanbul) "Cartesian Love"
• 3:15 Jean-Christophe Bardout, (Université de Brest - Bretagne Occidentale) "Y a-t-il une theorie occasionnaliste des passions?"
• 4:45 Lisa Shapiro, (College of Charleston) "What Do the Expressions of the Passions Tell Us?"

Saturday, May 2

• 9      Frédéric de Buzon, (Université de Paris XII - Val de Marne) "Les Passions de l'âme et la methode de la physique cartesienne"
• 10:15 Piet Steenbakkers, (University of Utrecht) "No Wonder: the ambiguous position of Admiratio in Spinoza's doctrine of the passions"
• 11:30 Annie Bitbol-Hersperies, (Paris) "The Nature of Man in the Passions de l'âme"
• 2:15 Lilli Alanen, (University of Uppsala) "The Intentionality of Cartesian Passions"
• 3:30 Gilles Olivo, (Université de Caen) "The Passions and the Question of Physical Causality"
• 4:45 Brandon Look, (University of Kentucky) "Perfection, Power and the Passions in Spinoza and Leibniz"

Sunday, May 3

• 9:30 Calvin Normore, and Deborah Brown (UCLA/University of Toronto) "The Ghost and the Machine: Descartes on Referring Passions to the Soul"
• 10:45 Giulia Belgioiso, (University of Lecce) "From wizard to science, from 'beast' to philosophy. 'Marvel' and epistemology of Descartes and Vico"
• 1:30 André Gombay, (University of Toronto) "'Careerist' Emotions"
• 2:45 Vincent Aucante, (Paris) "The Object of Cartesian Medicine"

The Midwest Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy is an informal group, formed to foster interaction among scholars of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy. All sessions will be held at the Chicago Humanities Institute in the Joseph Regenstein Library on the campus of the University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL. We gratefully acknowledge their hospitality.