The 3rd Edition of Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy
22 March 2012
23 March 2012
10.00RECEPTION
10.30
10.30- Daniel Garber
God and the Order of Nature:
11.30 (invited speaker) Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza
10.00- Christoph Lüthy
11.00 (invited speaker)
11.00- Tobias Schöttler
11.45
11.30- Cameron
12.15 Jeffrey Boult
11.45- Allison Kuklok
12.30
12.1513.15
13.15- Leopold Hess
14.00
Descartes and Scepticism: From
Closure to Underdetermination
LUNCH
Leibniz and the Disenchantment of
Nature
12.3013.30
13.30- Hernán
14.15 Matzkevich
14.00- Tzuchien Tho
14.45
What is expressed in motion? Leibniz’s
invention of force and the problem of
infinitesimals
14.15- Sandra Dragomir
15.00
14.45- Joseph
15.30 Anderson
The Metaphysics behind Leibniz’s
Change of Mind on Privation
15.0015.30
15.3016.00
16.00- Mihai-Dragos
16.45 Vadana
COFFEE BREAK
Meditative thinking
16.45- Mihnea Dobre
Cartesian Empiricisms: An
17.45 (invited speaker) Introduction
15.30- Sergiu Apetroaei
16.15
16.15- James Arnold
17.00
Thinking with diagrams. Early
modern perplexities
The Quaestio de Certitudine
Mathematicarum, or: The unique
character of mathematical proofs
Strings, Physies, and Hogs Bristles:
Objective Kinds in Locke
LUNCH
The body of angels: Lady Anne
Conway’s attack of mechanism and
dualism
Human nature and understanding
in Initia doctrinae physicae. A
contextualising analysis
COFFEE BREAK
Galileo on Falling Bodies: A
Constructive Empiricist View of
Thought Experiment
The 'Idealized Spectator' in
Hume's Ethical Theory