The Early Modern Philosophy Calendar

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The Early Modern Philosophy Calendar

This website is maintained by Stephen H. Daniel at Texas A&M University as a service to scholars working in the history of early modern philosophy. It brings together information about calls for papers, event schedules, and contacts about presentations, conferences, and seminars dealing with research in late 16th, 17th, and 18th century philosophy.

To have an event listed, send the appropriate information to Steve Daniel (sdaniel@philosophy.tamu.edu). Events posted on various mailing lists (e.g., philosop, philos, MWSeminar) are incorporated into this page. If no deadline is listed for calls for papers, that means either that the deadline has passed or that presentations were by invitation only.

February 15-17, 2010
Conference: European Society for Early Modern Philosophy: "Mind in Nature"
Humboldt-University of Berlin
Unter den Linden 6: Senatssaal & Room 2097

Monday, Feb. 15
  9:00-10:30  Dominik Perler (Humboldt, Berlin): "Mind in Nature: Two Conceptions in Early Modern Philosophy"
  11:00-12:30  Catherine Wilson (Aberdeen): "The Representationalist Paradigm in Early Modern Perceptual Theory: Sources, Problems, Solutions"
  14:30-16:00  Colloquium One: Perception and Imagination (chair: C. Leijenhorst, Nijmegen)
    Michael Edwards (Oxford): "Imagination and Nature in Late Aristotelianism"
    Paolo Rubini (Berlin): " 'Non est intelligere absque phantasmate': Naturalization of the Mind and Cognitive Role of the Imagination according to Pietro Pomponazzi"
    Juhana Lemetti (Helsinki): "Active Sensory Imagination and Its Limits in Early Modern Naturalism"
  16:30-18:00  Colloquium Two: Volition and Freedom (chair: M. Hampe, Zürich)
    Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt): "Freiheit und Erkenntnis: Zum Problem des doxastischen Voluntarismus im klassischen Rationalismus"
    Norman Sieroka (Zürich): "Wahrnehmung, Kontinuität und Wille bei Leibniz"
    Robert Schnepf (Halle): "Molinas Begriff des freien Willens"
    Hans-Peter Schütt (Karlsruhe): "Humes Freiheiten"
  18:30-20:00  Udo Thiel (Graz): "Bundles and Selves: Hume in Context"
Tuesday, Feb. 16
  9:00-10:30  Susan James (Birkbeck, London): "When does Truth Matter? The Politics of Spinoza's Philosophy"
  11:00-12:30  Han van Ruler (Rotterdam): TBA
  14:30-16:00  Colloquium Three: Emotion and Action (chair: L. Halldenius, Malmö)
    Susan James (Birkbeck): "Narrative as the Means to Freedom: Spinoza on the Uses of Imagination"
    Peter Myrdal (Uppsala): "Leibniz on Pleasure in Activity"
    Martina Reuter (Helsinki): The Force of Passions and the Imagination in Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy"
    Timothy O'Hagan (East Anglia): "Sense and Sensibility in Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
  16:30-18:00  Colloquium Four: Laws of Nature and Rules of Thought (chair: A. Hüttemann, Münster)
    Stefano di Bella (Pisa): "Law and Miracle in a Leibnizian World"
    Maarten van Dyck (Gent): " 'Nature's inexorable and immutable ways': The Mechanical Background of Galileo's laws of nature"
    Oliver Scholz (Münster): " 'Prendre pour cause ce qui n’est point cause': Arnauld, Nicole und Pascal über Kausalaussagen und kausale Fehlschlüsse"
    Martin Schüle (Zürich): "Die Verkörperung des Denkens: Hobbes' 'Computational Theory of Mind' "
  18:30-20:00  Meeting of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy
Wednesday, Feb. 17
  9:00-10:30  Jonathan Lowe (Durham): "Language, Thought, and Meaning in Locke's Essay"
  11:00-12:30  Dennis Des Chene (Washington U, St Louis): "Substance and Organism"
  14:30-16:00  Colloquium Five: Dysfunctional Minds (chair: S. Roux, Grenoble) [Colloquium held in English]
    Denis Kambouchner (Paris): "Descartes et la physiologie de la folie: remarques sur un passage du Traité de l’Homme"
    Claire Crignon (Bourgogne): "Ordre et désordres de l’esprit: l’approche médicale de Thomas Willis (1621-1675)"
    Cédric Brun (Bordeaux): "De l’imbécile à l’aveugle studieux: figures et usages d’esprits dysfonctionnels dans la philosophie de la connaissance de John Locke"
    Richard Glauser (Neuchâtel): "Locke and the Problem of Weakness of the Will"
  16:30-18:00  Colloquium Six: Finite and Infinite Minds (chair: J. Hill, Praha)
    Petr Glombicek (Ostrava): "Bona Mens Cartesiana"
    Christian Barth (Berlin): "Leibniz on Divine and Human Omniscience"
    Jiri Chotas (Praha): "Hobbes on Finite and Infinite Mind"
    Gregor Kroupa (Lyubljana): "Vast Oceans of Nature, Small Islands of Knowledge: Ordering Infinite Complexity in the Encyclopédie"
  18:30-20:00  Michael Della Rocca (Yale): "Naturalism and Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (in Leibniz and Spinoza)"
  20:00-21:30  Daniel Garber (Princeton): "Before Monads: How Leibniz Discovered Mind in Nature"
To register (no later than Feb. 10, 2010), go to the registration website. Registration costs: 50 € (standard), 30 € (ESEMP members), and 10 € (students).
Conference website.
Contact.

February 17-20, 2010
American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting
Palmer House Hilton Hotel
Chicago, IL
Thursday, Feb. 18
  12:15-1:30  Carus Lecture: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers): "Descartes and Virtue Epistemology"; chair Peter Graham (California, Riverside)
  1:45-4:45  Symposium: Early Modern Philosophy of Time
    Chair: Geoffrey A. Gorham (Macalester C.)
    Richard Arthur (McMaster): TBA
    Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins): TBA
    Donald Baxter (Connecticut): “Hume’s Account of Duration An Empiricist Successor to Descartes”
  7:15p.m.  Adam Smith Society: Adam Smith's Original Theory of Imitation
    Chair: Remy Debes (Memphis): TBA
    Paul Guyer (Pennsylvania): TBA
    James A. Harris (St. Andrews): TBA
  7:15p.m.  Society for the Philosophical Study of Education: European Contributions to the Philosophy of Education (through the Enlightenment)
    Chair: Alexander Makedon (Chicago State)
    Anja-Silvia Goeing (Pädagogisches Institut, Zürich): “Visual Perception and Academic Learning Strategies: Early Continental European Approaches”
    Joseph S. Freedman (Alabama State): “Disciplinarity vs. Interdisciplinity in Education: Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1650) and His Contemporaries”
    Emery J. Hyslop-Margison (New Brunswick):“The Legacy of Cartesian Dualism in Educational Thought”
    Guillemette Johnston (DePaul): “Rousseau’s Emile and the Development of the Self: Has the Message of Emile Been Misappropriated by Psychology or Education?”
    James E. Roper (Michigan State): “Kant’s ‘Cosmopolitanism’ Versus Rawls’s ‘Liberalism’ in Education”

Friday, Feb. 19
  9:00-12:00  Symposium: Ethics in German Idealism
    Chair: Sebastian Luft (Marquette)
    Frederick Neuhouser (Barnard Coll, Columbia U): “The Normative Significance of ‘Nature’ in Rousseau’s Moral Philosophy”
    Eric E. Wilson (Loyola–Maryland): “Autonomy Is Its Own Reward: Self-Satisfaction in Kant’s Ethics”
    Daniel Breazeale (Kentucky): “In Defense of Fichte’s ‘Moral Fanaticism’”
  9:00-12:00  Symposium: Newtonian Metaphysics
    Chair: Zvi Biener (Western Michigan)
    Lisa Downing (Ohio State): TBA
    James McGuire (Pittsburgh) and Edward Slowik (Winona State): “Newton’s Ontology of Omnipresence and Infinite Space”
    Eric Schliesser (Leiden): "Newton’s Challenge to Philosophy: A Programmatic Essay”
      Commentator: Andrew Janiak (Duke)
  10:00-11:00  Colloquium: Perception and Epistemology
    Chair: John Whipple (Illinois-Chicago)
    Adam Pelser (Baylor): "Seeing Is Not Believing: A Case for Modifying Reid's Theory of Perception"
      Commentator: Seishu Nishimura (Shiga U, Japan)
  2:45-5:45  Colloquium: Seventeenth Century Philosophy
    2:45-3:45  Chair: Steven Nadler (Wisconsin-Madison)
      Eric Stencil (Wisconsin–Madison): “Arnauld’s Occasionalism”
        Commentator: Tad M. Schmaltz (Duke University)
    3:45-4:45  Chair: Shelley E. Weinberg (Toronto)
      Julie Walsh (Western Ontario): "'Things For Actions': Locke's Mistake in 'Of Power'"
        Commentator: Matthew Stuart (Bowdoin)
    4:45-5:45 p.m.  Chair: Timothy Crockett (Marquette)
      Joel D. Velasco (Stanford): "Mathematics and Leibnizian Necessity"
        Commentator: Katherine Dunlop (Brown)
  2:45-5:45  Colloquium: Kant’s Moral Philosophy
    2:45-3:45 p.m.  Chair: Andrea Westlund (Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
    Oliver Sensen (Tulane): “Kant’s Conception of Inner Value”
        Commentator: Mary Clayton Coleman (Illinois Wesleyan)
    3:45-4:45 p.m.  Chair: Helga Varden (Illinois–Urbana/Champaign)
    Melissa Seymour Fahmy (Georgia): “Kant’s Duty of Respect for Other Human Beings: Ends in Themselves as Well as Ends for Others”
        Commentator: Ernesto Garcia (Massachusetts, Amherst)
    4:45-5:45 p.m.  Chair: Lara Denis (Agnes Scott C.)
    Michael Byron (Kent State): “Kantian Supererogation”
        Commentator: Krista K. Thomason (Lamar)
  7:15 p.m.  North American Kant Society
    Chair: Robert B. Louden (Southern Maine)
    Georg Mohr (Bremen): The Mary Gregor Lecture: “Kant on Music as Beautiful Art”
        Commentator: Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore)
  7:15 p.m.  American Association of Philosophy Teachers: Teaching Modern Philosophy Survey Courses
    Chair: Nils Rauhut (Coastal Carolina)
    Andrew Terjesen (Rhodes): “The Importance (and Challenge) of Teaching Moral Philosophy in Early Modern Survey Courses”
    Bryan Hall (Indiana U Southeast): “Covering Kant in a History of Modern Philosophy Survey Course”
    Brady Bowman (Pennsylvania State): “Evaluating Student Performance in Modern Survey Courses”
    Matthew Hallgarth (Tarleton State): “Depth vs. Breadth in Modern Philosophy Survey Courses”
  7:15 p.m.  North American Spinoza Society
    Chair: Joe Van Zandt (Independent Scholar)
    Syliane Malinowski-Charles (Bishop’s U, Sherbrooke, Québec): “Rationalism versus Subjective Experience”
        Commentator: Melissa M. Shew (Marquette)

Saturday, Feb. 20
  8:30-11:30 a.m.  Symposium: Perceptual Constancies
    Chair: David Hilbert (Illinois, Chicago)
    Gary Hatfield (Pennsylvania): TBA
    Alan Gilchrist (Rutgers, Newark): TBA
        Commentator: Robert Schwartz (Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
  8:30-11:30 a.m.  Symposium: Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
    Chair: Tamra Frei (Michigan State)
    Robert B. Louden (Southern Maine): “National Character via the Beautiful and Sublime?”
    Patrick Kain (Purdue): TBA
        Commentator: Jeanine M. Grenberg (St. Olaf)
  1:00-3:00 p.m.  Hume Society: Author Meets Critics: Peter Kail's Projection and Realism in Hume’s Philosophy
    Chair: Dorothy Coleman (Northern Illinois)
    Critics: Don Garrett (New York U), Eric Schliesser (Leiden), Jacqueline Taylor (U of San Francisco)
      Author: Peter Kail (Oxford)
  3:15-6:15 p.m.  Author Meets Critics: Roy Sorenson's Seeing Dark Things
    Chair: Margaret Atherton (Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
    Critics: Casey O'Callaghan (Rice), Jonathan Westphal (Idaho State)
      Author: Roy Sorenson (Washington U, St. Louis)
  Colloquium: Kant: Intuition and Practical Imagination
    3:15-4:15 p.m.  Chair: Rachel E. Zuckert (Northwestern)
    Jennifer A. Mensch (Pennsylvania State): “Kant’s Theory of Intuition in the Inaugural Dissertation of 1770”
        Commentator: Clinton Tolley (California–San Diego)
    4:15-5:15 p.m.  Chair: Anja Jauernig (Notre Dame)
    Stefan E. Bird-Pollan (Harvard): “Kant and the Practical Implications of Genius”
        Commentator: Arata Hamawaki (Auburn)
    5:15-6:15 p.m.  Chair: Daniel Sutherland (Illinois, Chicago)
    Peter Brickey LeQuire (Chicago): “Duty Sui Generis and the Individual in Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason”
        Commentator: Frederick Rauscher (Michigan State)

February 27-28, 2010
Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
University of New Mexico
Philosophy Department library or lounge, Humanities Bldg, fifth floor
Albuquerque, NM
Saturday, Feb. 27
  9:30-10:40  Sanem Soyarslan (Duke): "The Distinction between Reason and Intuitive Knowledge in Spinoza’s Ethics"
  10:50-12:00  Steven Nadler (Wisconsin, Madison): "Spinoza, Maimonides, and Prophesy"
  1:30-2:40  Joel Schickel (Dayton): “The Modernity of Descartes’s Moral Theory”
  2:50-4:00  Shelley Weinberg (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "The Metaphysical Fact of Consciousness in Locke’s Theory of Personal Identity"
  4:30-5:40  Brian Chance (Oklahoma): "Psychologism, Sensibilism, and Kant’s Debt to Hume"
  6:30  Conference Dinner (contact Mary Domski by Feb. 1 if you wish to attend)
Sunday, Feb. 28
  9:30-10:40  Colin Heydt (South Florida): "‘Where men judge of things by their natural, unprejudiced reason’: Hume and His Contemporaries on the Virtues"
  10:45-11:55  Reed Winegar (Pennsylvania): "Good Sense, Art, and Morality in Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste' "
Contact: Mary Domski.
Website.

March 5-6, 2010
Seminar: Southern Study Group, North American Kant Society
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
Sterling Evans Library, Rm. 204A (except where noted otherwise).
Friday, March 5
  12:45-1:45  Corey Dyck (Western Ontario): "The Aeneas Argument: Personality and Immortality in Kant's Third Paralogism"
  2:00-3:00  Aaron Bunch (Washington State): "The Resurrection of the Body as a 'Practical Postulate' "
  3:15-4:30  Rudolf Makkreel (Emory): "Relating Aesthetic and Sociable Feelings to Moral and Participatory Feelings"
  5:00-6:30  Otfried Höffe (Eberhard Karls U, Tübingen): Topic: Kant's Religion [Evans Library Rm. 204E]
Saturday, March 6
  8:00-9:00  Continental Breakfast [Philosophy Department Conference Room, Bolton 213]
  9:15-10:15  Ryan Johnson (Houston Comm. C.): "An Accord In/On Kantian Aesthetics"
  10:30-11:30  Tatiana Patrone (Ithaca C.): "Does the Fact of Reason Beg the Question of the Second Critique?
  11:45-1:00  Richard Velkley (Tulane): "The Philosopher's Art: Architectonic and Spirit"
  2:30-3:30  Marius Stan (California Institute of Technology): "Kant's Early Theory of Motion"
  3:45-4:45  Ryan Kemp (Fordham): "The Contingency of Evil: Rethinking the Problem of Universal Evil in Kant's Religion"
  5:00-6:15  John Zammito (Rice): "Kant, 'Natural History', and the 'Daring Adventure of Reason' "
Contact: Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M).
Website.

March 5-6, 2010
Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
University of Aberdeen, Divinity School Library
Aberdeen, Scotland
Friday, March 5
  9:30-10:00  Welcome: Philip Ziegler (Aberdeen)
  10:00-11:00  John Whipple (Illinois, Chicago): “Malebranche and Descartes on Mind-Body Distinction”
  11:00-12:00  Delphine Kolesnik (École Normale Supérieure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon): “What Does It Mean to Study Man ‘As a Physicist’?: Regius and Descartes”
  14:00-15:00  Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia, Montreal): “Leibniz’s Anti-Vitalism”
  15:00-16:00  Julie Henry (École Normale Supérieure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon): “How Does a Child Become a Man? Descartes, Spinoza”
  16:00-16:30  Break
  16:30-17:30  Catherine Wilson (Aberdeen): “Metaphysics and the Sciences of Life: Descartes and Leibniz”
Saturday, March 6
  10:00-11:00  Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY): “The Relation between Body and Mind in Spinoza’s ‘Intellectual Love of God’ (Ethica V P33-39)”
  11:00-12:00  Martine Pécharman (CNRS, Paris/French House, Oxford): “The Moral Psychology of Ralph Cudworth: What Place for Sympathy?”
  13:30-14:30  Ohad Nachtomy (Fordham): “Uniqueness, Unity and Infinity in Spinoza and Leibniz”
  14:30-15:30  Noa Shein (Hebrew U, Jerusalem): “Newton’s Anti-Cartesian Space”
  16:00-16:30  Break
  16:30-17:30  Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh): TBA
Contact: Mogens Lærke.
Website.

March 8-10, 2010
Workshop: " 'Mathesis metaphysica quadam': Leibniz, between Mathematics and Philosophy"
École Normale Supérieure, Paris; U Paris-Diderot (Grand Moulins campus)
Sponsored by the Ideals of Proof Project (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) and REHSEIS (UMR 7219, SPHERE).   All meetings the first two days will be in the salle Dusanne of the ENS (45 rue d'Ulm, Paris). On the third day, the meetings will be in the Klee Room, Rm. 454A of the Condorcet building, on the Grands Moulins campus of the U of Paris-Diderot.
Monday, March 8
  9:00-10:50  Herbert Breger (Leibniz-Archiv, Hannover): "The Substructure of Leibniz's Metaphysics"
  11:00-12:50  Michel Serfati (IREM, Université Paris VII): "Mathematics, Metaphysics and Symbolism in Leibniz: The Principle of Continuity"
  14:30-16:20  Vincenzo De Risi (Technische Universität, Berlin): "Leibniz's Studies on the Parallel Postulate"
Tuesday, March 9
  9:00-10:50  Philip Beeley (Linacre C, Oxford): " 'In deliberationibus ad vitam pertinentibus': Method and Certainty in Leibniz’s Mathematical Practice"
  11:00-12:50  Richard Arthur (McMaster): "Leibniz’s Actual Infinite in Relation to his Analysis of Matter"
  14:30-16:20  Samuel Levey (Dartmouth): "Leibniz's Analysis of Galileo's Paradox"
Wednesday, March 10
  9:00-10:50  Emily Grosholz (Pennsylvania State): "The Representation of Time in Galileo, Newton and Leibniz"
  11:00-12:50  Eberhard Knobloch (Tech. U Berlin): "Analyticité, équipollence et la théorie des courbes chez Leibniz"
Contacts: Michael Detlefsen or David Rabouin.
Website.

March 12-14, 2010
Conference on Practical Ethics and the Scottish Philosophical Tradition
Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary, Erdman Conference Center
Princeton, NJ
Friday, March 12
  1:00-2:30, Session One
    Fred Ablondi (Hendrix Coll): "Beattie on Human Nature"
    Thomas D. Kennedy (Berry Coll): "Fordyce on Practical Ethics"
  2:45-3:45, Plenary Lecture: Colin Heydt (South Florida): "Debating Duties to Others in Eighteenth Century Britain"
  4:00-5:30, Session Two
    Petra Van Brabandt (Antwerp): "Female Chastity, a Nunnish Virtue?"
    Alison McIntyre (Wellesley Coll): "Hume's Reflections on Pride"
Saturday, March 13
  9:00-10:30, Session Three
    James Foster (Princeton): "Reid and Augustine"
    Christian Maurer (Blaise Pascal): "Archibald Campbell on Self-Cultivation and Self Denial"
  10:45-11:45, Plenary Lecture: Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa & Princeton U Center for Human Values): "Ethics in Politics: Hume versus Ferguson"
  1:15-2:45, Session Four
    Gordon Graham (Princeton Seminary): "Reid on Judgment and the Irrelevance of Realism"
    Remy Debes (Memphis): "A Compass to the 'Real': The Sentiment of Approval"
Sunday, March 14
  9:15-10:45, Session Five
    Jacqueline Taylor (San Francisco): "The Practical Implications of Humean Humanity"
    Max Grober (Austin Coll): "A Steady Contempt of Life: Suicide Narratives in Hume and Others"
  11:00-12:00, Panel Discussion
Revised versions of presented papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy (Guest Editor: Colin Heydt, University of South Florida).
Contact: Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy
Website

March 21-26, 2010
Conference: Thomas Reid From His Time To Ours
University of Aberdeen (March 21-23), University of Glasgow (March 24-26)
In March 2010 a week-long event in recognition of Thomas Reid will be held at the two universities where he taught: the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow. The conference will be devoted to all aspects of Reid’s work and its context. Plenary speakers include James Harris (St Andrews), Laurent Jaffro (Paris I Sorbonne), Paul Wood (Victoria, BC), and Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark C.)and Udo Thiel (Australian National).

Sunday 21 March
4pm Registration; James Mackay Hall, King's College Conference Centre (KCCC)
5.15pm Plenary Session 1, KCCC Auditorium:
  Paul Wood (Victoria, BC): "A Virtuoso Reader: Thomas Reid and the Practices of Reading in Eighteenth-Century Scotland"
Monday 22 March
  James Mackay Hall, 9.45 - 11.45am Concurrent Sessions 1
    Multimedia Room:
        James Crombie: "Visible Figure as a Primary Quality of Body in Reid"
        Giovanni Grandi: "Reid on Single and Double Vision"
    Catherine Gavin Room:
        Jeffrey Edwards: "Reid, Hume, and Kant on Virtue, Motives, and Moral Worth: Some Stoic and Epicurean Background Assumptions"
        Boguslaw Wójcik: "Philosophy of Thomas Reid as pre-Kantian criticism from the continental point of view"
    Carnegie Room:
        Todd Buras: "Thomas Reid’s Experimentum Crucis"
        René van Woudenberg: "Thomas Reid Between Externalism and Internalism"
  1pm - 3pm Concurrent Sessions 2
    Multimedia Room:
        Emanuele Levi Mortera: "Dugald Stewart on Innate Ideas and the Origin of Knowledge"
        Cristina Paoletti: "An Open Revolt against the Authority of Reid: Thomas Brown and the Developments of Common-Sense Philosophy"
    Catherine Gavin Room:
        Lewis Powell: "Reid's Assault on the Theory of Ideas"
    Carnegie Room:
        Ralph Jessop: "Counter-Cultural Scepticisms of the Long Enlightenment: Reid, Hamilton, Carlyle, and Beyond"
        Glen Doris: "An Abolishionist Too Late? James Beattie and the Scottish Enlightenment's Lost Chance to Influence the Slave Trade Debate"
    3.30 - 5.30pm Concurrent Sessions 3
    Multimedia Room:
        Martin Brecher: "Reid's Account of the Duties of Self- Governance and Moral Generalism"
        Roger Gallie: "Thomas Reid And The Problem Of Evil"
    Catherine Gavin Room:
        Sabine Roeser: "The relevance of Reid’s common sense- approach for contemporary psychology"
        Edward Skelton: "An Argument for Folk Psychology as a Matter of Common Sense"
    Carnegie Room:
        Susan Stuart: "The Enkinaesthetic Foundation for the Development of Reidian Artificial Signs"
        Laura Keating: "In the Mind without an Object: Reid on Sensation and the Mark of the Mental"
    7.30pm Reception and Book Launch, Linklater Rooms: Sabine Roeser (ed.) Reid on Ethics
Tuesday 23 March
James Mackay Hall
  9.45 - 11.45am Concurrent Sessions 4
    Multimedia Room:
        Misericordia Anglés: "Claude Buffier, Thomas Reid and other minds"
        Sabine Kraus: "The influence of Thomas Reid on Paul Joseph Barthez's medical philosophy"
    Catherine Gavin Room:
        Ruth Boeker: "Thomas Reid on memory, the self and direct realism"
        Angélique Thébert: "The defense of propositions of common sense: a Reidian solution to the epistemic circularity problem"
    Carnegie Room:
        Charles Bow: "Thomas Reid and the Moral Philosophy of Samuel Stanhope Smith"
        Jean-Marie Chevalier: "Thomas Reid in the US: a Potato-Pop-Gun?"
    James Mackay Hall
    1 - 3pm Concurrent Sessions 5
    Multimedia Room:
        James E. Bruce: "Direct Realism and The Infinite Divisibility of Time in Thomas Reid"
        Schinichi Nagao: "Thomas Reid on the plurality of worlds: its Scottish contexts and beyond"
    Catherine Gavin Room:
        James Crombie: "Thomas Reid and the École écossaise in Early Nineteenth-Century France"
        David Alexander: "Reid’s Theory of Language"
    Carnegie Room:
        Renia Gasparatou: "Philosophies of common sense from Reid to experimentalists"
        Daniel Herbert: "Inquiry and Common-sense: Peirce’s debt to Reid"
3.30 - 5pm Plenary Session 2, KCCC Auditorium:
    Laurent Jaffro: "What Kind of Realism? Reid on Aesthetic Response"
5pm Reception: James Mackay Hall
6 - 7pm Concert of Eighteenth Century Music, King's College Chapel
7.30 Municipal Reception, Town House
Wednesday 24 March
    10.30am Travel to Glasgow
    2pm - 4pm BSHP Management Committee Meeting
    McKechnie Room (10 University Gardens, Grd floor)
    4pm - 5pm BSHP Annual General Meeting, Lecture Room (10 University Gardens, 1st floor)
5.15pm Plenary Session 3, Senate Room:
    Rebecca Copenhaver and Udo Thiel: "Reid on Consciousness"
Thursday 25 March 9.45 - 11.45am Concurrent Sessions 6
    Senate Room:
        Esther Kroeker: "Reid on Virtuous Habits"
        Phyllis Vandenberg: "Reid and his fellow Scots on moral foundations"
    Turnbull Room:
        Antoni Diller: "Refining Reid’s Principle of Credulity"
        Daniel Johnson and Adam Pelser: "Foundational Beliefs and Persuading with Humor: Reflections Inspired by Reid and Kierkegaard"
    Melville Room:
        Claire Etchegaray: "Reid’s Inheritance in the Discussion between Stewart and Prevost about Mathematical Evidence"
        Giovanni Gelera: "Thomas Reid's Orations and Aberdeen graduation theses of the early 18th century"
    1pm - 3pm Concurrent Sessions 7:
    Senate Room:
        Gregory Poore: "Coherence and the Justificatory Role of Theism in Reid’s Epistemology"
        Christopher Shrock: "Thomas Reid’s Singular Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction"
    Turnbull Room:
        Stephen Cowley: "James Mylne (1757-1839): An early Scottish critic of Thomas Reid"
        Marion Ledwig: "Reid's Response to Hume on Personal Identity"
    Melville Room:
        Chris Lindsay: "Instinctive exertions and the conception of power"
        Christian Maurer: "On the Influence of Hutcheson and Butler on Reid's Classification of the Principles of Action"
    3.30 - 5.30pm Concurrent Sessions 8
    Senate Room:
        Rebecca Copenhaver: "Reid on Acquired Perception"
        James Van Cleve: "Four Questions About Acquired Perception"
    Turnbull Room:
        Alex South: "Two Worlds? Gesture and Speech in Thomas Reid and Maurice Merleau-Ponty"
        Keith Lehrer: "Reid on the Moral Faculty"
    Melville Room:
        Graham McAleer: "Thomas Reid and Max Scheler on Vanity: A Test-Case for Intuitionism"
        Richard Stalley: "Morality and Motivation in the Essays on the Active Powers"
    6pm Municipal Reception, Glasgow City Chambers
Friday 26 March
    9.45 - 11.45am Concurrent Sessions 9:
    Senate Room:
        Jessica van der Schalk: "Thomas Reid and the Intellectual Powers of Children"
    Marina Folescu: "An Inconsistency in Reid’s Construal of the Power of Conception"
    Turnbull Room:
        Lucas Thorpe: "Reid, Kant and Sellars on the Role of Sensation in Perception"
        David R. Raynor: "The Intentionality of Perceptual Consciousness in Reid and Hume"
    Melville Room:
        David Vender: "Reid's Discovery of the Sense of Balance"
    1 - 3pm Concurrent Sessions 10
    Senate Room:
        Patrick Rysiew: "Reid and Pragmatism (old and new)"
        Elaine Engelhardt: "Reid on 'The Theory of Morals,' 'Moral Systems,' and Practical Ethics: Lessons for Teaching Practical and Professional Ethics?"
    Turnbull Room:
        Michael S Pritchard: "Thomas Reid’s 'Seeds of Moral Discernment'"
        Jamie Hellewell: "Thomas Reid on Physical Causation"
    3.30 - 5pm Plenary Session 4
    Senate Room:
        James Harris: "Thomas Reid in the History of Moral Thought"

Please register http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/reid2010.shtml#registration.
Programme. Arrangements are being made for the conference proceedings to be published.
For details about the schedule and registration, housing, and meal costs, consult the conference website.
Contacts: Cairns Craig in Aberdeen and Alexander Broadie in Glasgow.

March 26, 2010
Workshop: Philosophy of Natural Science from Newton to Kant
University College, London
Wilkins Garden Room, Gower Street
9:30–11:00  Andrew Janiak (Duke): "Newton between physics and metaphysics: action at a distance reconsidered"
11:20–12:50  Robert DiSalle (Western Ontario): "The transcendental method from Newton to Kant"
14:30–16:00  Michela Massimi (University College London): "Kant’s dynamic theory of matter in 1755, and its debt to speculative Newtonian experimentalism"
16:20–17:50  Eric Watkins (California, San Diego): "Kant, Reason, and the Unity of Science"
Website.
Contact: Michela Massimi.

April 6-9, 2010
International Berkeley Conference: 300th Anniversary of the publication of The Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Berkeley’s Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) deals with a broad spectrum of philosophical issues in metaphysics, philosophical theology, epistemology, theory of perception, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, etc. Speakers at the conference will discuss aspects of Berkeley’s philosophy that highlight a distinct connection of their chosen topic with the Principles.

Timo Airaksinen (Helsinki): “Visual Language: A Kantian Analysis”
Margaret Atherton (Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “The Nature of Berkeleianism: Lessons Learned from PHK 1-33”
Bertil Belfrage (Lund): “Berkeley’s Empiricist Concept of Thinking Substance”
Laura Berchielli (Clermont-Ferrand): “Berkeley on Language in New Theory of Vision and Principles”
Dominique Berlioz (Rennes-I): “Percipere and Concipere: Berkeley’s Way to Abstraction and Knowledge”
Talia Mae Bettcher (California State, Los Angeles): “Berkeley’s Positive Notion of Substance”
Martha Bolton (Rutgers): “ ‘The Most Abstract and Incomprehensible Idea of All’: Berkeley on Existence”
Wolfgang Breidert (Karlsruhe): “God’s Role in Berkeley’s Philosophy”
Richard Brook (Bloomsburg): “Berkeley and the Passivity of Ideas: A Look Again at PHK 25 and 26”
Geneviève Brykman (Paris-X, Nanterre): “Berkeley et le scepticisme pyrrhonien”
Sébastien Charles (Sherbrooke): “Activité et passivité de l’esprit selon Berkeley”
Stephen Daniel (Texas A&M): “Berkeley’s Appropriation of Bayle’s Constitutive Skepticism”
Georges Dicker (SUNY Brockport): “Berkeley’s Challenge”
Keota Fields (Massachusetts-Darmouth): “Transcendental Arguments in Berkeley’s Immaterialism”
Richard Glauser (Neuchâtel): “Revisiting Berkeley on the Sameness of What We Perceive”
Petr Glombicek (Prague): “Berkeley’s Notion of Common Sense”
Heta Aleksandra Gylling (Helsinki): “Prudentiality, Expediency and Afterlife”
Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere): “Ideas Are Ideas: Of the Ontological Status of Berkeley’s Ideas”
Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney, Virginia): “The Myth of Privacy”
James Hill (Prague): “Berkeley’s Notions: A Third Way between Empiricism and Innatism”
Laurent Jaffro (Paris-I): “Berkeley on Assent and the Belief of Matter”
Nancy Kendrick (Wheaton C, Mass.): “The Empty Amusement of Seeing: Berkeley on Causation and Explanation”
George Pappas (Ohio State): “Berkeley and Epistemic Fallibilism”
Silvia Parigi (Gaeta): “Berkeley and Boyle: Qualitative Corpuscularianism and the Laws of Nature”
Ville Paukkonen: “Berkeley’s Likeness Principle”
Luc Peterschmitt (Lille): “Berkeley’s Implicit Corpuscularianism in the Principles of Human Knowledge”
Samuel Rickless (California, San Diego): “The Relation between Anti-Abstractionism and Idealism in Berkeley’s Metaphysics”
Katia Saporiti (Zurich): “A Bet with High Stakes: Reflections on Berkeley’s Master Argument”
Daniel Schulthess (Neuchâtel): “Berkeleyan Ideas and Profiles: An Inquiry in Perspective”
Claire Schwartz (Aix-Marseille): “A New Scientific Methodology? Metaphysical Principles and Physical Laws in De Motu”
Tom Stoneham (York): “Agency and Blind Agents”
Reed Winegar (Pennsylvania): “Berkeley’s Escape from the Labyrinth”

Website.
Contact: Richard Glauser

April 7-8, 2010
Spinoza Research Network Conference: "Spinoza and Texts"
University of Dundee, Scotland
This conference focuses on uses of Spinoza in the arts and humanities, considering Spinoza's influence by and on "texts" construed very broadly. Papers will look at Spinoza in relation to literary, historical, visual, cultural, and critical texts, and evaluate Spinoza's contribution to multiple fields in the history of ideas and contemporary humanities. Invited speakers include Dimitris Vardoulakis (Monash), Peg Rawes (University College London), Nick Nesbitt (Aberdeen), and Nicholas Halmi (Oxford).
Postgraduate call for papers: abstracts are invited from Masters and PhD students for papers of 45-minutes reading time on any topic relevant to the conference theme. This is an interdisciplinary network, and papers looking at Spinoza from a non- (or not strictly) philosophical perspective are welcome. Speakers will have their travel and accommodation expenses covered.
Please send an abstract of around 300 words, along with your name, department, institution, and email address to Michael Burns no later than 18 January 2010. You will be informed of our decision by early February. Information about registration and travel bursaries for this event will be available soon.
Website.
For more information, contact Beth Lord.

April 10-11, 2010
Newton and Empiricism Conference
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Call for papers: Isaac Newton and John Locke are sometimes portrayed as dual fathers of the British Enlightenment, with Newton providing the exemplar of human knowledge and Locke providing the philosophical infrastructure required for understanding the merit and reach of that exemplar. Yet their union was neither simple nor unchallenged. Newton's empiricism developed while defending and revising his Principia against philosophical critique, and Locke's hospitability to Newtonian gravity and realization of Newton's achievement developed through successive drafts of the Essay and other texts. Moreover, similar complexity exists in the work of Newton's and Locke's intellectual heirs. This conference will focus on the compatibility and incompatibility, tensions, and developing relations between Newton, Locke, and their successors in Newtonianism and Empiricism.
Invited speaker: Lisa Downing (Ohio State). Possible conference participants should note that Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen) will deliver an Annual Lecture Series Talk at the Center for Philosophy of Science on the afternoon of April 9, 2010. Conference participants are encouraged to attend.
Partial travel stipends will be available for young scholars, who are highly encouraged to submit abstracts. The deadline for submitting abstracts (of approximately 750 words) is December 1, 2009. Email submissions are highly encouraged and can be sent to Zvi Biener. If you do not receive confirmation of receipt of your abstract within a week, please resubmit or contact one of the other organizers, James E. McGuire or Eric Schliesser.
Conference website.

April 14-16, 2010
Conference: "Skepticism in the Enlightenment from the Encyclopédie to German Idealism"
University of Sherbrooke, Montréal campus
Montréal, Québec, Canada
This is the second part of a two-part bilingual (English/French) conference on "Skepticism and Enlightenment." The first part of the conference ("Skepticism in the Enlightenment from Bayle to the Encyclopédie") will have been held December 2-4, 2009 at the University of São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo, Brazil.
Although there is already a list of invited speakers, some space is available for non-invited papers, in particular for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral students.
All proposals (title and abstract) must be sent before August 1, 2009 to the conference organizers: Plinio Junqueira Smith and/or Sébastien Charles.

April 18, 2010
Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
The Mid-Atlantic Seminar is an informal group, formed to foster the exchange of ideas among scholars of early modern philosophy (roughly, the period from Suarez to Kant). Abstracts (up to 1 page long) of proposed papers and a brief cv should be sent to Yitzhak Melamed no later than February 22, 2010.
Invited speakers: Dan Garber (Princeton) and Christia Mercer (Columbia). Please note that we will make a serious effort to cover at least part of the travel expenses of graduate students/recent Ph.D.s whose papers are accepted for presentation.
The seminar's program, directions, and accommodation information will be posted on the seminar's website after March 1.

May 1-2, 2010
Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota
The Midwest Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy is an informal group that normally meets once a semester to discuss new work and work-in-progress in the study of 17th and 18th century philosophy. Call for Papers: Send abstracts of not more than 750 words in any areas of early modern philosophy to Geoffrey Gorham by February 15, 2010. Papers should be about 45 minutes presentation time. Program will be announced in early March.
Co-Organizers: Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College) and Edward Slowik (Winona State).
Website.

May 12-14, 2010
Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop: "Forms of Life in the Eighteenth Century"
University of Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana
Call for Papers: we’d like to consider the implications of the 18th-century debate about the nature of life and the turn to vitalist proposals of an animating force, broadening beyond the discourses of physiology and the natural sciences, where many of these ideas originate, to consider their connections elsewhere in the period. Why does the idea of a life force emerge (or re-emerge) at this moment? How are living forms distinguished from each other? What sorts of decisions create the hierarchies of animate forms (and, for instance, what gets called “animal”)? Which lives matter and which don’t? How might we reconsider eighteenth-century answers to these questions in light of 21^st-century rethinking of life and animality? How is the line drawn distinguishing the living and the non-living, animate being and thing? Participants might also consider the implications of contemporary thinking about life for the discourse of political economy, in its treatment of populations, masses, collective life and the role of hunger in history and also for developments in the religious sphere. One might also turn to the numerous Pygmalionic fantasies of animation in art and criticism, from “tableaux vivants,” illuminated statuary, life-like automata and still lives to critical pronouncements on the living body as the highest achievement of true art. Papers might address topics such as organisms and organization, self-organization, animals and animation, the life sciences and the social sciences, the culture of sensibility and irritative physiology, monstrosity, aesthetic and living form, the “life” of the imagination, and competing notions of life.
In the workshop, 12-15 scholars will present and discuss papers on a broad topic in a congenial setting. The workshop will consist of focused discussion of four to six papers a day and will draw both on the wide community of eighteenth-century scholars and those working in this field at Indiana University- Bloomington. It will cover most expenses of those scholars chosen to present their work: accommodations, travel (up to a certain limit), and most meals. Application--consisting of a two-page description of the proposed paper as well as a current brief CV (no longer than three pages)--should be sent to Barbara Truesdell (Indiana, Bloomington) no later than January 8, 2010. All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail within a fortnight: if you have not received an acknowledgment by Jan. 22, 2010, please contact Barbara Truesdell or Dror Wahrman.
Website.

May 16-18, 2010
New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Invited speakers include Martha Bolton (Rutgers), Robert Fogelin (Dartmouth), and Calvin Normore (McGill/ UCLA). Abstract proposals (no longer than four pages; finished papers should have a reading time of no more than 45 minutes) should be sent to Kenneth Winkler no later than February 15, 2010. Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by March 15.

May 21, 2010
6th Siegener Kant-Kurs: ""Kant und Kopernikus" (KrV, B XVI ff.)
Workshop aimed at graduate students and postdocs, in conjunction with the International Kant Congress (see next entry)
Pisa, Italy
Der Kurs soll dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs Gelegenheit geben, sich in der Methode der kommentarischen Interpretation zu üben. Im Sinne dieses Ansatzes gibt es bei den Siegener Kant-Kursen keine Vorträge. Im Mittelpunkt steht vielmehr das gemeinsame Interpretieren und Diskutieren ausgewählter Textpassagen in kleinen Gruppen exzellenter Nachwuchsleute. Gastdozenten: Dennis Schulting (Amsterdam) und Niko Strobach (Saarbrücken).
Um eine Teilnahme können sich Studierende vor und in der Promotionsphase sowie jüngere Postdocs bewerben; sehr gute (zumindest passive) Deutschkenntnisse werden vorausgesetzt. Dabei sind jeweils fünf Plätze für italienische, deutsche und internationale Gäste vorgesehen. In begrenztem Umfang stehen Reisestipendien zur Verfügung. Alle BewerberInnen werden gebeten, einen kurzen Lebenslauf, eine Empfehlung sowie ein Motivationsschreiben einzureichen [gerne per Email an Dieter Schönecker (Universität Siegen)]. Bewerbungen schicken Sie bitte bis Ende Januar 2010.
Website.

May 22-26, 2010
11th International Kant Congress
Palazzo dei Congressi
Pisa, Italy
The general topic of the congress is "Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense". This topic refers to the "cosmopolitan concept" (Weltbegriff, conceptus cosmicus) of philosophy. According to Kant, philosophy in a cosmopolitan sense concerns that which necessarily interests everyone. Philosophy in this sense is the "science of the relation of every cognition to the essential ends of human reason." This cosmopolitan sense of philosophy provides the opportunity for reflection on the meaning and function of philosophy in its relation to every form of knowledge and to every aspect of human life.
The congress will consider all aspects of Kant's philosophy. However, contributions on Kant's concept of philosophy will be especially welcomed. Sessions are planned on the following topics:

(1) Kant and the philosophical tradition, (2) Theory of cognition and logic, (3) Science, mathematics, and philosophy of nature, (4) Ontology and metaphysics, (5) Ethics, (6) Law and justice, (7) Politics and history, (8) Anthropology and psychology, (9) Religion and theology, (10) Aesthetics, (11) Kant's concept of philosophy, (12) Kant's heritage, (13) Kant and the Leibnizian tradition, (14) Kant and Schopenhauer (in collaboration with the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft). Everyone interested is encouraged to participate.

Papers can be written in German, English, French, and Italian. Papers must be submitted electronically through the congress website, accompanied by an abstract of no more than 10 lines. The maximum length of papers is 10 pages (font: Times New Roman 12, line spacing: 1.5). Papers must specify which session they are intended for. Papers must not contain any information enabling referees to identify the author (for instance, references to one's own works, indicated as such). Only papers written correctly in any of the four congress languages will be considered for selection. The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2009. Authors will be notified by 31 December 2009 as to whether their paper has been accepted. Plenary session papers and parallel session papers will be published in the congress proceedings.
To submit a proposal, go to the proposal submission page.
Congress website.
Contact: Claudio La Rocca.

May 26-28, 2010
Modern Philosophy Colloquium
Santiago, Chile
Sponsored by Methodus: Revista Internacional de Filosofía Moderna (International Journal for Modern Philosophy) and the Chilean Society for Modern Philosophy
Departamento de Filosofía, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Almirante Barroso 10, Santiago, Chile, Metro Los Héroes)
Call for papers: The Chilean Society for Modern Philosophy invites all the national and international academics and postgraduate students interested in taking part of this event to submit an abstract of the paper they would like to read and discuss. The submission deadline is December 21, 2009. The participants will have the option of presenting a full paper (30 min. + 15 min. of peer commentary + 15 min. of open discussion). The official languages of the colloquium will be Spanish and English. The abstract must contain no more than 500 words in any *.doc format and must be written in one of the official languages. Please specify your name and affiliation. The abstract should be sent to revista.methodus@gmail.com.
Contact: Francisco Pereira.

June 7-11, 2010
Templeton Summer Seminar on Evil and Early Modern Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Skidmore College
Sarasota Springs, NY
This fully funded seminar will explore the ways in which the nature and reality of evil were treated in the distinctive intellectual culture of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. All expenses will be covered for participants, plus a modest stipend. (For a few participants, there will also be an additional opportunity to attend the conference on Leibniz's Theodicy that will be held September 16-18, 2010 at Notre Dame with full expenses covered.) Mornings will be traditional seminar format led by the translators of the new Theodicy translation and edition in progress), Robert Sleigh (Massachusetts, Amherst) and Sean Greenberg (UC-Irvine), with additional faculty support by Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore) and Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame). Afternoons will feature small reading groups with individual faculty focused on primary texts.
Eligibility: graduate students (including first-years) who have not yet advanced to candidacy are preferred (i.e., pre-ABD); those who are at the very early stages of dissertation writing will also be considered. (In future years, the "Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary Thought" project will also be offering multi-year, generously funded dissertation fellowships for those working on dissertations on related topics in the early modern period.)
As the application information website indicates, the seminar offers generous funding for up to 12 graduate students interested in the problem of evil in early modern philosophy and/or theology. In particular, those who have not yet advanced to candidacy with interests in early modern philosophy and/or theology are encouraged to apply no later than Jan. 15, 2010.
Seminar website.
Contacts: Samuel Newlands or the Center for Philosophy of Religion.

June 21, 2010 (afternoon)
Workshop on Hume and Kant
Centre for the History of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds
Presentations by Bob Stern (Sheffield) and Andrew Ward (York).
Contact: Alix Cohen.
Website.

June 24-26, 2010 (dates still to be determined)
International Colloquium: "Lectures et interprétations des Essais de Théodicée de G. W. Leibniz"
University of Paris, Sorbonne
En 1710 paraissaient les Essais de Théodicée, seul ouvrage philosophique d'importance publié par Leibniz de son vivant. Ce texte rédigé en français, qui prenait prétexte de la controverse suscitée par les écrits de Bayle sur la question de la conformité de la foi avec la raison, était l'occasion pour l'auteur du "système" de l'harmonie préétablie de montrer la fécondité de son hypothèse, dans le cadre d'un exposé métaphysique et théologique plus complet. Le traitement de la question du mal, la conciliation de son existence avec la justice divine engageaient en effet toute la doctrine du libre et du nécessaire, des mondes possibles, mais encore la théorie de l'âme, de la volonté et les principes d'une morale.
   300 ans après leur publication et en dépit de leur notoriété, il est surprenant de constater que les Essais restent un texte relativement peu étudié par les commentateurs. La diversité des thèmes et des domaines abordés (métaphysique, théologie rationnelle et révélée, philosophie naturelle, morale, réflexions sur l'histoire des langues, sur le vivant), la pluralité des formes d'argumentation utilisées (avec le recours à des arguments non strictement démonstratifs) en font un ouvrage complexe, sans doute déroutant, mais riche.
   L'objet des travaux de ce colloque sera d'interroger le statut de ce texte, longtemps considéré comme un exposé "populaire" ou exotérique et non strictement systématique de la "philosophie" de Leibniz, en explorant ces différents champs et en examinant les différents types de discours qu'il met en œuvre.
   Six thèmes principaux d'étude ont été retenus (liste non exhaustive):
      1. La conformité de la foi avec la raison : la question de la vérité et de son unité, celle de l'univocité des notions et des principes, notamment dans le contexte des polémiques entre Bayle, Jaquelot, Le Clerc.
      2. L'origine (ultime) et la cause (prochaine) du mal, thème central du livre, la question du concours tant physique que moral de Dieu au péché.
      3. La doctrine de la liberté, la question des futurs contingents, de la prescience et de la prédestination. Les deux sortes de nécessité, la contingence, la distinction entre nécessaire et déterminé.
      4. La doctrine des mondes possibles, le statut du possible, le principe du meilleur.
      5. La question " épistémologique " du statut des différents types d'argumentation déployés dans les Essais, suivant la perspective adoptée (défensive, réfutative, démonstrative, "dialectique").
      6. L'hypothèse de l'harmonie préétablie, l'union de l'âme et du corps, la préformation des animaux et la préexistence des âmes, et plus généralement les enjeux métaphysiques des questions de philosophie naturelle (la téléologie).
      7. Les histoires : histoire profane, histoire sacrée, les réflexions linguistiques, les hypothèses sur l'histoire de la terre, le rôle et l'usage des fictions (le mythe final de Sextus).
Participants include: Jean-Pascal Anfray (Université d'Aix-Marseille I), Frédéric de Buzon (Université de Strasbourg), André Charrak (Université Paris I), François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal - Canada), Michel Fichant (Université Paris IV), Daniel Garber (Princeton, US), Martine de Gaudemar (Université Paris X), Mark A. Kulstad (Rice, US), Antonio Lamarra (Rome - Italie), Wenchao Li (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften - Allemagne), Gianfranco Mormino (Université de Milan - Italie), Juan A. Nicolás (Université de Grenade - Espagne), Enrico Pasini (Université de Turin - Italie), Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh - Grande-Bretagne), Francesco Piro (Université de Salerne - Italie), Paul Rateau (Université Paris I), Anne-Lise Rey (Université Lille I), Claire Rösler (IUFM de Grenoble), Hartmut Rudolf (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften - Allemagne), Donald Rutherford (U California, San Diego, US)
Conference organizer: Paul Rateau

June 24-27, 2010
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Congress
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
The conference is open to scholarly work on the history of philosophy of science from any disciplinary perspective. Submissions of abstracts of papers of approximately 25-30 minutes' reading length, and of symposia of three to four thematically related papers will be considered for the program. Submissions should be sent (with "HOPOS 2010 Submission" in subject line) as an email attachment directly to James Lennox, the "Kant and Before" Program Sub-Committee chair, either as a Word document or PDF file. Deadline for submissions is December 15, 2009. Notification of paper acceptances for the program will be provided by March 1, 2010.
Proposals for papers should include:

title and abstract of the paper (maximum 500 words)
address of the participant, including e-mail, phone, and institution

Proposals for symposia should include:

title of symposium
symposium summary statement (maximum 500 words)
titles and abstracts of papers (maximum 500 words for each paper)
address of each participant, including e-mail, phone, and institution
identification of symposium organizer, who will serve as contact person

Conference website (including information on abstracts, accommodations, and visitor information). HOPOS Conference website.

July 6-10, 2010
Hume Society Conference
University of Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
The Hume Society is pleased to announce its thirty-seventh annual conference. Invited speakers: Herman De Dijn (Catholic U, Louvain), Jesse Prinz (CUNY Graduate Center), Elizabeth Radcliffe (William and Mary), Christine Swanton (Auckland). We are looking for papers in all areas of Hume studies. The following are the special themes of this conference:

  Hume and Phenomenology
  Hume and Feminist Philosophy
  Hume on Religion: Passion and Belief

Papers should be no more than thirty minutes reading length with self-references deleted for blind reviewing; the author's name should appear only on a front cover sheet. Papers may be submitted in French, Spanish, German, or English, but must include an English-language or French-language abstract. Authors are requested to submit cover sheets, abstracts, and papers in one file in either MS Word or rich text format (RTF). Cover sheets should include the author’s contact information. Papers are to be submitted as an email attachments addressed to submissions@humesociety.org.

The Hume Society has set aside up to $2000 for the support of graduate students reading papers at the annual Hume Society meetings, to be given to qualifying students whose papers have been accepted through the normal blind-review process.
Submissions must be sent by November 1, 2009. Authors will be notified that their submissions have been received. If you submit a paper and do not receive an acknowledgement by November 15, 2009, please email secretary@humesociety.org.
Conference website.
Contacts: Jacqueline Taylor and Willem Lemmens.

July 8-11, 2010
Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Dalhouisie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Like similar seminars in other parts of North America, the Atlantic Canada Seminar is an informal group, formed to foster interaction among scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy. Papers on any subject in early modern philosophy (roughly, the period from Montaigne up to Kant) are welcome. Reading times are approximately 50 minutes with 30 minutes for discussion. There are no concurrent sessions. A few speakers are invited, though most will be vetted through a selection process that includes external refereeing. Reports will usually be available to authors. We make space for some graduate students. (If you are a graduate student, please indicate.) Non-presenters are also welcome to attend and will be included in all our activities and listed on the program. We sometimes have chairs for our sessions; if you are interested in chairing in lieu of presenting, please let us know. No funding is provided (this also applies to invited speakers), but inexpensive accommodations in university residence housing is available, in addition to a variety of hotel accommodation in the vicinity of the conference.
The deadline for submitting abstracts (of approximately 750 words) is 1 March 2010. We will try to the have the program available by May 1, 2010. Information on accommodations and travel will be available at that time.
Contact: Tom Vinci.

July 12-August 6, 2010
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Topic: "Descartes, Galileo, Hobbes: Philosophy and Science, Politics and Religion during the Scientific Revolution"
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Seminar Directors: Daniel Garber (Princeton) and Roger Ariew (South Florida)
This four week summer seminar will bring together fourteen college-level instructors and two advanced graduate students with the aim of deepening their knowledge of three central figures in early seventeenth century thought, broadly conceived to include philosophy, science and mathematics, political and religious thought. In our seminar we propose to tackle a group of interrelated texts, figures and issues. Descartes and Hobbes knew one another, and both knew Galileo's work very well, and were keenly aware of his conflict with the Church. Studying these figures together brings out interesting themes in the history of science, philosophy, politics, and the relations of these to religion. Furthermore, each of these figures is central to the curricula in philosophy, political science, and history. Our hope is to bring together scholars and teachers, and advanced students from these different areas to learn from one another and thereby to enrich their teaching and scholarship. Participants will receive a stipend of $3,300 for the four week seminar.
Application deadline: March 2, 2010
Website.
Contact: Daniel Garber.

July 25-29, 2010
International Symposium on Plato, Platonism, and the Moderns
Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture
Olympia and Pyrgos, Elia, Greece
Call for abstracts and papers on any of the following: Platonic Dualism, the Form of the Good and the Origin of the Soul, Plato's Gnoseology, The Concept of Virtue, Plato and Aristotle, Neoplatonism, Plato and German Idealism, Plato and Modern Philosophy
Abstracts (300-500 words) due Jan. 31, 2010; completed papers (2500 words) due May 31, 2010. Early registration fee (150 € or equivalent) by June 15; late registration fee (170 € or equivalent) by July 15. The registration fee covers service and equipment, evening receptions with dinner and entertainment, visits to archaeological sites of Ancient Olympia, travel to receptions, and a cultural event. The cost of transportation from Athens to Olympia and return to Athens is 50 €. The registration and transportation fees can be either sent by check to the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture (9 Aristotelous Street, 151 24 Amaroussion, Greece) or forwarded directly to the Olympic Center’s Bank Account, which is: 002 01 081 067 79, Agricultural Bank of Greece, Panepistemiou Street, Athens, Greece (IBAN: GR43 0430 6230 0000 2010 8106 779, Swift No ABG.RGRAA).
For your stay in Athens, you should make your own reservations either at the Hotel Stanley [1, Odysseos Street, Karaiskaki Square, GR 104 37, Athens, Greece; phone: (30-210) 5241611-18, Fax: (30-210) 5244611, 5238450], from where the Symposium bus will depart for Olympia on July 25, 2010, 8:00am, or at any hotel close to Omonoia Square at the center of Athens. For your stay in Olympia, make your own reservations at Hotel Elis or Antonios and ask for the special rates that have been offered to those participating in the symposium (contact: +30 26240 22547, Fax: +30 26240 22112, e-mail: info@olympiahotels.gr, website: www.olympiahotels.gr).
Contacts: Leonidas Bargeliotes (Athens), Georgios Anagnostopoulos (California, San Diego), or Christos Evangeliou (Towson U, Maryland).

August 2-6, 2010
12th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
Çankaya University
Ankara, Turkey
Two Separate One-Day Workshops:

Workshop #1: "The Interactions between Philosophy and Physics in the 17th Century"

    The 17th century marks a great shift in the history both of physics and of philosophy. In cosmology, this century saw the transition from the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic cosmology of the "closed world" to the "infinite universe" of material extension in Galileo and others, to re-use Alexandre Koyré's famous phrase. In philosophy, the dualistic philosophy of Descartes challenged, and progressively replaced, the ancient hylomorphism of Aristotle and of the Scholastics. Finally, in physics itself, mechanism was born in conjunction to the two aforementioned changes, and it remained intrinsically related to the new dualistic philosophy of the time.
    Such names as Galileo, Descartes, Newton and Boyle are but landmarks in a history that counts many lesser-known figures, as well as many opponents. Not only will this workshop be interested in exploring such lesser-known figures, in addition to the great achievements of the main theoreticians of mechanical physics; it will also focus on the main philosophers of the 17th century, such as Hobbes, Leibniz, or Spinoza, in order to see how the new physics of the time imported its problems into their thoughts, and how it was answered by them. Among these stand in a prominent position such questions as the individuation of bodies, the relationship between mind and body, the status of the singular among the infinite whole, the force at play in extension, and the status of experiments vis-à-vis pure theory in the method of investigation.
    The focus of this workshop will thus be twofold: to see how philosophy accompanied and, to a great extent, caused the birth of the mechanical physics of the 17th century on the one hand, and to see how this physics reversely influenced philosophical debates on the other hand.
Call for Papers: speakers will have 20 to 30 minutes to present their papers (exact time to be confirmed, depending of the number of papers accepted). One-page abstracts must be sent before October 31, 2009 to Syliane Malinowski-Charles (Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Workshop #2: "Skepticism between Science, Literature and Philosophy"

    The analysis of the revival of skepticism in early modern times (notably by Richard Popkin) has shown the importance of the skeptic figure in better understanding early modern philosophy. In particular, it has shown the real function of Cartesianism, which was the most prodigious war machine against skeptical philosophy. But the diffusion of skepticism at that time was broader than philosophy alone; it also touched literature and science, creating new problems and hypotheses. In fact, skepticism was one of the major problems and matters of interest of the République des lettres.
    Given this situation, the way in which literature presented the skeptic figure still needs exploring. It is well-known, for instance, that Molière made comical use of the skeptic's suspension of judgment. What other representations can we find of this figure in early modern literature? And how was skepticism addressed by a science that pretended to reach universal truth? A specific focus on major figures of skepticism in early modern times such as Montaigne, Gassendi, Huet, La Mothe le Vayer, or Bayle, could help us answer these two questions and understand the nature and function of skepticism in regard to literature and science.
    For example, by insisting on the relativity of customs and habits, skeptics have forced writers to take into account other cultures and even write in favor of them. And by evoking the difficulty of finding truth, even for modern scientists, they have encouraged scholars to adopt a probabilistic conception of science, which has some relation to later empiricism. In this perspective, skepticism is crucial to our comprehension of early modern times, and it is important to deal with aspects other than only the philosophical ones in order to better evaluate its impact on the period.

Call for Papers: speakers will have 20 to 30 minutes to present their papers (exact time to be confirmed, depending of the number of papers accepted). One-page abstracts must be sent before January 1, 2010 to Sébastien Charles (Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec).

August 25-29, 2010
Conference: Women's Political Thought in Europe 1700-1800
Monash University Prato Centre, Palazzo Vaj, Via Pugliesi, 26
Prato, Italy
Call for paper abstracts: conference on the contribution of women to the history of political thought in Europe during the Enlightenment period. Papers may discuss the political ideas of individual women such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Hays, Sarah Churchill, Mary Delariviere Manley, Marie Jodin, Emilie du Châtelet, Madame Dupin, Olympe de Gouges, Felicité Keralio-Robert, Madame Roland, Germaine de Staël, Dorothea Erxleben Leporin, Amalie Holst, Johanna Charlotte Unzer, Luise Gottsched, Mariana von Ziegler, Elise Reimarus, Elisabetta Caminer Turra, and others. Papers placing the work of such women in the broader context of political writing by men are encouraged. "Political thought" is broadly interpreted to include sexual politics as well as political theory, and discussions of the political ideas of women as expressed in genres other than the political treatise are welcome.
Send paper title and one-page abstract to Karen Green no later than March 8, 2010. Up to five bursaries of up to $500 will be available to help post- graduates and early career researchers to attend the conference. Applicants who wish to be considered for one of these should indicate this with their submission. An edited volume on women’s political thought in Europe during the eighteenth century is proposed, and contributions to the conference may be submitted for publication in this volume. Contributors who are unable to attend the Prato Conference, but would like to contribute a paper to the volume are invited to submit papers for consideration by September 30, 2010.
Contacts: Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, Karen Green.
Website.

September 3-4, 2010
Conference: "The Cartesian 'Myth of the Ego' and the Analytic/Continental Divide"
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Themes and Objectives:   The philosophical scene has been dominated for many years by the analytic/continental divide. This protracted history of antagonism has tended to obscure the fact that at least on one point the two traditions seem to be remarkably close, if not convergent. Despite all the differences in style and choice of topics, both traditions have been strongly shaped by a profound discussion with "Cartesianism." Obviously, the term “Cartesianism” here does not necessarily refer to the historical positions defended by René Descartes. Quite to the contrary, both traditions seem to battle against a certain image of Cartesianism, broadly understood as the cluster of philosophical convictions grounded upon the supposition that philosophy should start from “the immediate data of consciousness” and not, for example, from human behavior or man’s practical relation to reality as the existentialists and pragmatists would have it.
  One of the Cartesian doctrines that both analytic and continental philosophers generally found most unacceptable was that of the supposition of a pure Self, a pure Ego. What we could call the Cartesian “Myth of the pure Ego” stands for a number of theses. These include roughly two groups of convictions:
    1) the metaphysical and epistemological claim that the conscious mind is an inner realm, connected to the outside world via the senses, to which only the ego has privileged access and about which it has incorrigible knowledge.
    2) the methodological idea that this self forms the self-evident starting point of a philosophical system.
  Cartesian philosophy of mind has been a favorite target for analytic philosophers from the very beginning. Think only of Ryle’s critique of substance dualism as a category mistake. In recent days, Dennett’s use of the term “Cartesian Theater” is a prototypical example of the strawman-like position labelled "Cartesianism." The term is used to denounce the view that consciousness is an inner space in which an ego, homunculus or other fictitious entity watches the data coming in from the ourside world. For its part, the continental tradition only became obsessed with combatting “Cartesianism” after Husserl revived the Cartesian ego in the shape of his transcendental phenomenology. In this sense, Husserl’s “Cartesianism” became profoundly influential exactly because it was so unacceptable to most of his followers. Continental philosophers have portrayed Descartes’s/Husserl’s “pure self” as a “phantastical invention” (Heidegger) or as a linguistic fiction (Derrida).
  This colloquium aims at a critical evaluation of the hidden anti-Cartesian consensus between analytic and continental philosophy. In this context, the colloquium will ask both historiographical and philosophical questions. Examples of historiographical questions include: to what extent did Descartes actually defend the “myth of the pure ego”? In other words, to what extent is “Cartesianism” a twentieth-century construction? What philosophical purposes does this construction serve? Is the rift between analytical and continental philosophy as deep as many have portrayed it? Philosophical questions include: which elements of the Cartesian tradition now still seem worth defending? Which ones should definitively be rejected, be it on the basis of insights gathered in analytic or on the basis of continental philosophy? Can philosophy really do without a “pure self”? Are there viable alternatives for a “pure self”? The organizers of this colloqium do not take an a priori stand on these questions but invite participants to come to terms with “Cartesianism,” both from historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives. It is the hope of the organizers that in this fashion a fruitful dialogue not only between historical and systematic scholarship, but also between analytic and continental perspectives may result.
Confirmed speakers: Tom Sorell (Birmingham), Katalin Farkas (Central European U, Budapest), Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen), Shaun Gallagher (Central Florida)
Papers are invited on any topic related to the theme of the conference. Please send us a brief summary of your paper (maximum 500 words) and a short CV. Submission deadline: 1 April, 2010. Decisions will be reported by 1 May 2010. Inquiries and submissions should be directed to Cees Leijenhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen). Costs for travel and accomodation will be covered by the organizers. There is no conference fee.

September 16-18, 2010
Conference: "Leibniz's Theodicy: Context and Content"
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

Call for Papers: conference commemorating the 300th anniversary of the publication of Leibniz’s Theodicy, the only book-length treatise published by Leibniz in his lifetime. The conference will explore the contents of the philosophical content of Leibniz's work on the problem of evil, its fit within the Leibnizian corpus, its relation to broader issues in the early Enlightenment, and its subsequent reception and impact.
The conference will be held in association with the North American Leibniz Society and will follow two earlier European Theodicy conferences. It will feature prominent keynote addresses, a full slate of invited speakers and commentators, and a special graduate student session. Invited and confirmed speakers include Robert Adams (North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Maria Rosa Antognazza (King's College London), Jan Cover (Purdue), Daniel Garber (Princeton), Jonathan Israel (Princeton), Nicholas Jolley (California, Irvine), Christia Mercer (Columbia), Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshall), Donald Rutherford (California, San Diego), Robert Sleigh (Massachusetts, Amherst), Tad Schmaltz (Michigan).
Papers on any of these philosophical, theological, and historical topics will be considered, though they must not be under publication consideration at the time of the conference. Expenses (including travel) will be paid in full for the papers selected for presentation. Those wishing to propose entries for consideration should submit a short abstract (350 word limit) of the paper no later than February 1, 2010. Accepted papers must be completed and submitted to the organizers no later than August 15, 2010 for pre-conference web posting. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to cpreligion@nd.edu.
Conference contact: Samuel Newlands.
Conference website.
This conference is part of a four-year project, "The Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary Thought," coordinated by Notre Dame's Center for Philosophy of Religion, with generous support from the John Templeton Foundation. Through a wide-ranging series of research initiatives, including fellowships, conferences, seminars, workshops, publications, translations, contests, and public events, we hope to stimulate and promote new work on the problem of evil that will be relevant to both the scholarly community and to a larger public audience. For information on these various activities, go to the project's website.

October 8-11, 2010
Conference: 300 Jahre Essais de Théodicée: Rezeption und Transformation
Berlin and Potsdam
Focus: the reception and transformation of Leibniz's Theodicy by, for example, Lessing, Herder, Jean Paul, Blumenberg, Ritter-Schule.
Invited and confirmed speakers include Have pledged their participation Kurt Appel (Vienna), Luca Basso (Padua), Gábor Boros (Budapest), Hubertus Busche (Hagen), Robert Ballanti Celada (Genova), Detlef Döring (Leipzig), François Duchesneau (Montréal), Volker Gerhardt ( Berlin), Ursula Goldbaum (Atlanta), Stefan Lorenz (Munster), Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Frankfurt a. M.), Christia Mercer (New York), Johann Baptist Metz (Munster), Gianfranco Mormino (Milano), Hanns-Peter Neumann (Halle), Juan A. Nicolás (Granada), Arnauld Pelletier (Paris/Hannover), Hans Poser (Berlin), Paul Rateau (Paris), Patrick Riley (Harvard), Jaime de Salas (Madrid), Heinrich Schepers (Munster), Uwe Steiner (Houston), Walter Sparn (Erlangen, Germany), Eugenio Spedicato (Pavia), Martin A. Völker (Berlin), Friedrich Vollhardt (Munich).
Contacts: Stefan Luckscheiter, Wenchao Li.
Website.

November 12-13, 2010
2010 NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: "The Metaphysics of Modality"
New York University
New York, NY
Each conference in this series examines the development of a central philosophical problem from early modern philosophy to the present, exploring the evolution of formulations of the problem and of approaches to resolving it. By examining the work of philosophers of the past both in historical context and in relation to contemporary philosophical thinking, the conferences allow philosophy’s past and present to illuminate one another.
Contact: Don Garrett.

November 18-20, 2010
International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science
Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Carme, 47 – Barcelona)
Barcelona, Spain
Call for Papers for the following session topics:

The travels of scientists in Europe since the 16th century; coordinator: Ana Simões
Within Europe and beyond Europe: The Jesuits as Circulators of Science; coordinator: Catherine Jami
Johann Michael Vansleb (1635-1679): The Difficult Task of not being under patronage; coordinator: Therese-Marie Jallais
Cartesian Physics (as Experimental Philosophy) and its University Reception; coordinator: Mihnea Dobre
Some Aspects of the Circulation of Symbolic Language; coordinator: Maria Rosa Massa-Esteve
Medical Humanism in Late Renaissance Italy: Girolamo Mercuriale's Suggestion of the Rise of "New Diseases"; coordinator: Maria Kavvadia
Hallerstein and Gruber's Scientific Heritage; coordinator: Stanislav Joze Juznic
What does it mean to be an 18th century empiricist? Construction and circulation of a pluralistic concept; coordinator: Anne-Lise Rey

Deadline for abstract submissions: February 1, 2010.
Conference website.

December 3-5, 2010
Leibniz Society of North America Conference: Call for Papers
University of Houston
Houston, TX
Papers on any aspect of Leibniz’s philosophy will be considered and should have a reading time of approximately 45 minutes. Abstracts of no more than 700 words should be submitted by email attachment, in either Microsoft Word or PDF format, to Gregory Brown (Houston) by 15 July 2010.
Website.
Contact: Gregory Brown.

June 4-7, 2012
International Berkeley Conference: Berkeley on Moral and Social Philosophy/La philosophie morale et sociale de Berkeley
Université de Sherbrooke - Campus Longueuil
Longueuil, Québec (near Montréal)
George Berkeley (1685-1753) contributed to a wide range of academic disciplines; from philosophy to mathematics and empirical psychology; from theology to political economy and monetary policy. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Berkeley's Passive Obedience (1712), we are now inviting distinguished scholars to discuss aspects of Berkeley's moral and social philosophy. The bilingual English/French conference, sponsored by the International Berkeley Society, will take place at the University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Canada. Anyone interested in participating in the conference should send an abstract before June 1, 2011 to Bertil Belfrage (for Anglophone contributors) or Sébastien Charles (for Francophone contributors).
Organizers: Bertil Belfrage, Sébastien Charles, and David Raynor.

George Berkeley (1685-1753) s'est investi dans un large spectre d'activités académiques, allant de la philosophie aux mathématiques et à la psychologie empirique, de la théologie à l'économie politique et à la politique monétaire. Afin de célébrer le 300ème anniversaire de la publication de l'Obéissance passive (1712), nous invitons dès à présent des spécialistes de Berkeley à s'intéresser à sa philosophie morale ou sociale dans le cadre d'un colloque bilingue (français-anglais) bénéficiant du soutien de l'International Berkeley Society qui se tiendra au campus Longueuil de l'Université de Sherbrooke. Tout chercheur souhaitant participer au colloque peut faire parvenir un résumé à Bertil Belfrage (intervenants anglophones) ou Sébastien Charles (intervenants francophones) avant 1 juin 2011.
Organisateurs: Bertil Belfrage, Sébastien Charles, and David Raynor.

September 2-5, 2013 (tentative date)
International Berkeley Conference: The 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Collegium Maius, Jagiellonian University
Kraków, Poland
Scholars from around the world will be meeting to discuss Berkeley's Three Dialogues. Sponsored by the International Berkeley Society. For information, please contact one of the organizers, Milowit Kuninski (Jagiellonian University, Poland) or Bertil Belfrage (Lund University, Sweden).