Early Moderns on the Power of Philosophy Workshop
14-15 October 2022
School of Philosophy
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
This is a hybrid event. Registration is free, but required for in person or online participation. Please register here:
Programme (all times are Irish/UK summer time; UTC+1):
Friday, 14 October 2022
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
“Hume’s Skeptical Philosophy and the Management of Pride“
Speaker: Charles Goldhaber (Haverford College)
Commentator: Taro Okamura (University of Tokyo)
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM
“Knowledge for the Sake of Power: Anti-System in Bacon’s Philosophy“
Speaker: Robert Miner (Baylor University)
Commentator: Adi Efal-Lautenschlaeger (Tel Aviv University)
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
“A Puzzle for Macaulay on Moral Improvement and the Philosophical Education of Women“
Speaker: Jill Hernandez (Texas Tech University)
Commentator: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin)
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
“The Role of Philosophy in Hume’s Critiques of British Imperial Politics“
Speaker: Elena Zeng (King’s College, Cambridge)
Commentator: Margaret Watkins (Seattle Pacific University)
Saturday, 15 October 2022
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
“Right Reason and the Power of Platonism in 17th Century Women Philosophers“
Speaker: Elisabeth Thorsson (Durham University)
Commentator: Francesco Quatrini (University College Dublin)
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM
“Why Do Skeptics Philosophize? The Case of Pierre Bayle”
Speaker: Michael Hickson (Trent University)
Commentator: Katherine Dunlop (University of Texas, Austin)
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
“Spinoza and the Problem of Imperfect Rationality“
Speaker: Jacob Zellmer (University of California, San Diego / Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Commentator: Erin Islo (Princeton University)
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
“Hume and the Power of Convention”
Keynote: Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)
Commentator: Graham Clay (University College Dublin)
Organizers: Graham Clay, Ruth Boeker.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Irish Research Council, the Mind Association, and University College Dublin.
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