CALL FOR PAPERS: Truth, Certainty and Toleration: a conference on Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648)

University of York, 13-14th May 2016

Herbert of Cherbury is, today, an under-rated philosopher. However, his main work of philosophy, De veritate (1624) was an internationally influential book in its time, as were his writings on religion De religione laici (1645), and the posthumously published De religione gentilium (1663). A man of wide cultural interests, Herbert of Cherbury was abreast of philosophical developments of his day, in contact with Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes and Gassendi. The aim of this conference is to take a first step towards re-establishing Herbert’s reputation as a philosopher and to consider the best means of developing timely projects to make his philosophy accessible today.

Organisers: Sarah Hutton and Tom Stoneham

Confirmed speakers: Justin Champion, Adam Grzelinski, Sarah Hutton, Richard Serjeantson, Adam Smrcz

Papers are invited on all aspects of Herbert’s activities, particularly those relating to his intellectual interests. Please send a title and 300 word abstract to Prof. Sarah Hutton sarah.hutton@york.ac.uk by 14th March 2016. General enquiries about the conference should be sent to edwardherbertyork@gmail.com
Professor Sarah Hutton

Visiting Professor
Dept. of Philosophy
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy

Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy 

and The British Society for the History of Philosophy

In association with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, KCL and the Wellcome Trust

Thursday 14th April 2016

The Great Hall, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

2.30-4.0: Tea and Registration in the Foyer of the Great Hall.

4.0 – 4.30: Susan James, Welcome and Introduction

4.30- 6.0: Plenary Lecture: Michael Moriarty, The thought of death changes all our ideas and condemns our plans.


Friday 15th April 2016
Birkbeck College, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL.

9.30am – 11am:  Plenary Lecture: Ursula Renz, Our Consciousness of Being Alive as a Source of Knowledge.

11.15am – 12.45pm:
Session 1:
Meghan Robison, But a Movement of Limbs: On the Movement of life in Hobbes’ Leviathan.
Barnaby Hutchins, Descartes’s ‘Vitalism’ .

Session 2:
Steph Marston, Affects and Effects: Spinoza on Life.
Julie Klein, Life and Death in Spinoza: Power and Reconfiguration.

Session 3:
John Callanan, The Historical Context of Kant’s Opposition to Suicide.
Jonas Jervell Indregard, Kant on Beauty and the Promotion of Life.

LUNCH

Coinciding with meeting of agreed and likely contributors to research network.

2pm – 3.30pm:
Plenary Lecture: Martine Pécharman, The Moral Import of Afterlife Arguments in Pascal and Locke.

3.45pm – 5.15pm:
Session 1:
Hannah Laurens, An Eternal Part of the Body? Spinoza on Human Existence Beyond Life and Death.
Filip Buyse, Spinoza on conatus, inertia and the impossibility of self-destruction.

Session 2:
Andreas Scheib, Johannes Clauberg and the Development of Anthropology after Descartes.
Andrea Strazzoni, Particles, Medicaments and Method. The Medical Cartesianism of Henricius Regius.

Session 3:
Sarah Tropper, ‘When the Manner of Death Disagrees with the Status of Life. The Intricate Question of Suicide in Early Modern Philosophy.
Teresa Tato Lima, Suicide and Hume’s Perspective about Human Life.

5.30pm – 7pm:
Plenary Lecture: Mariafranca Spallanzani, ‘Tota philosophorum vita commentatio mortis est’. Death of philosophers.


Saturday 16th April 2016
Birkbeck College, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL.

9.30am – 11am:

Session 1:
Kate Abramson, Living well, well-being and ethical normativity in Hume’s ethics.
Giuliana di Biase, Human’s life as a “state of mediocrity” in John Locke’s Essay and in his other works.
Session 2:
Dolores Iorizzo, Francis Bacon’s Natural and Experimental History of Life and Death (1623): A Lacuna in Accounts of the Scientific Revolution.
Gianni Paganini, Life, Mind and Body. Campanella and Descartes’ Connections.

Session 3:
Oliver Istvan Toth, Do we really need to die? Spinoza on the Necessity of Death in the Ethics.
Piet Steenbakkers, Living Well, Dying Well: Life and Death in Spinoza’s Philosophy and Biography.

11.15am – 12.45pm:
Plenary Lecture: Charles Wolfe, How I learned to love Vitalism.

LUNCH

2pm – 3.30pm:
Session 1:
Sean Winkler, The Persistence of Identity in Spinoza’s Account of Individuals.
Mogens Laerke, The Living God. On Spinoza’s Hebrew Grammar and Cogitata Metaphysica II,6.
Session 2:
Piero Schiavo, Controlling Death. Democritus and the myth of a death en philosophe.
Michael Jaworzyn, Clauberg, Geulincx, and philosophy as meditatio mortis after Descartes.

Session 3:
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, The Ban of Death: Leibniz’s Scandalous Immortalism.
Audrey Borowski, Leibniz’s natural Mechanism. Life and Death Revisited.

3.45pm – 4.15pm: Meetings of learned societies.

4.15pm – 5.45pm: Plenary Lecture: Lisa Shapiro, Learning to Live a Fully Human Life.

5.45 – 6.0: Conclusion and Farewell

Registration is now open for this conference at: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/philosophy/

Call for Papers: “Early modern Baconians: science, politics and philosophy”

This special issue of SOCIETY AND POLITICS aims to gather together articles dealing with the formation, evolution and influence of Francis Bacon’s thought. We are particularly interested in articles exploring the influence of Francis Bacon’s ideas upon seventeenth and eighteenth century European thought: from science to politics, and from religion to the evolution of literary forms and genres. Our purpose is to accommodate a diversity of approaches, coming from different fields. We welcome articles on experiment and experimental science, natural history, medicine of the mind, the Baconian ‘method’, the advancement of learning, religion and theology, politics and the reformation of law, fables and projects for ‘scientific’ or ‘esoteric’ societies (inspired by Francis Bacon’s writings). SOCIETY AND POLITICS welcomes research coming from different fields and strongly encourages cross-disciplinary approaches.

SOCIETY AND POLITICS is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad, Romania. See http://uvvg.ro/socpol/.

Papers no longer than 8.000 words and book reviews no longer than 800 words should be submitted by email to Dana Jalobeanu,dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro and Oana Matei, oanamatei@yahoo.com by the 10th of February 2013.

For the authors guidelines see:
http://uvvg.ro/socpol/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=53

Francis Bacon’s Arts of Discovery and The Cultivation of the Mind

The Maison Française d’Oxford (USR 3129, CNRS) and the University of Bucharest
are pleased to announce the International Conference
Francis Bacon’s Arts of Discovery and The Cultivation of the Mind

Friday 11 November and Saturday 12 November at the Maison Française d’Oxford 2-10 Norham Road Oxford OX2 6SE

Friday 11 November 9.30am-10.00am Tea/Coffee

Welcome by Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française d’Oxford Morning Session I

Chair : Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)

10.00am-11.15am Keynote Lecture Peter Anstey (Otago University)
Bacon, Ramus and the Interpretation of Nature

11.15am-11.30am Tea/Coffee
Morning Session II Chair : Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO)

11.30am-12.30pm
Per Landgren (MEHRC, Oxford)
Notiones Primae, Historiae Particulares et Inductio: Francis Bacon and the Aristotelian Concept of Historia

12.30pm-1.00pm
Raphaele Garrod (Cambridge University)
Response to Per Landgren

1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
Afternoon Session I Chair : Noel Malcolm (All Souls College)

2.15pm-3.15pm
Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
The Hunt of Pan: Exploratory Experimentation and the Rules of Experientia Literata

3.15pm-3.45pm
Daniel Andersson (Wolfson College)
Response to Dana Jalobeanu

4.00pm-4.30pm Tea/Coffee
Afternoon Session II Chair : Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, London)

4.30pm-5.30pm
Rhodri Lewis (St Hugh’s College)
Francis Bacon and Ingenuity

5.30pm-6.15pm
Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest)

Saturday 12 November

9.00am-9.15am Tea/Coffee
Morning Session I Chair : Peter Anstey (Otago University)

9.15am-10.15am
Dan Garber (Princeton University)
Bacon, New Atlantis and the Uses of Utopia

  

10.15am-10.45am
Doina Cristina Rusu (University of Nijmegen)
Response to Dan Garber

10.45am-11.00am Tea/Coffee
Morning Session II Chair : Howard Hotson (St Anne’s College)

11.00am-12.00
Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge University)
Interpreting Nature

12.00-12.30pm
Julianne Werlin (Princeton University)
Response to Richard Serjeantson

12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair : Dan Garber (Princeton University)
Response to Rhodri Lewis

4.30pm Tea/Coffee

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6.45pm Dinner 

Conference organised with the support of the Maison Française d’Oxford and the University of Bucharest
Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College)
Instances and Experiments

1.30pm-2.30pm

2.30pm-3.00pm
James Lancaster (Warburg Institute)
Response to Kathryn Murphy
Elodie Cassan (CEC, Paris)

3.00pm-4.00pm
Bacon in Gassendi’s History of Logic

4.00pm-4.30pm
Madalina Giurgea (University of Ghent)
Response to Elodie Cassan

Annual Lecture of the Sussex Centre for Early Modern Studies.

Chowen lecture theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

University of Sussex
Falmer, England BN1 9PX
United Kingdom

http://www.bsms.ac.uk/home/maps.php

All welcome

ALAN STEWART
"Francis Bacon in Collaboration"
It has long been known that, early in his career, Francis Bacon wrote 
letters, treatises, and entertainments for his friend and patron, 
Robert Devereux, earl of Essex.  But if the young Bacon "wrote" Essex, 
then might not somebody else have "written" the mature Bacon?  I 
analyze the materials relating to the production of Bacon's later 
writings--and his treatment of writing in /New Atlantis/--and argue 
that we need to reconsider Bacon's oeuvre as a radically collaborative 
undertaking.

Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at 
Columbia University, and International Director of the Centre for 
Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of /Close 
Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England/ (1997), /Hostage 
to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon/ (with Lisa Jardine, 
1998), /Philip Sidney: A Double Life/ (2000), /The Cradle King: A Life 
of James VI and I/ (2003), and most recently, Shakespeare's Letters/ 
(2008).  He has just completed work on volume 1 of the Oxford Francis 
Bacon (containing Bacon's early writings, 1584-1586), and is 
co-editing, with Garrett Sullivan, the Blackwell /Encyclopedia of 
English Renaissance Literature.