Registration deadline: 31 March 2019
Key Information
Location: King's College London, Strand Campus, London
Dates: Wednesday 24 April - Friday 26 April 2019
Contact: bshp2019@kcl.ac.uk
The BSHP gratefully acknowledges support from King’s College London Philosophy Department and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Location: King's College London, Strand Campus, London
Dates: Wednesday 24 April - Friday 26 April 2019
Contact: bshp2019@kcl.ac.uk
The BSHP gratefully acknowledges support from King’s College London Philosophy Department and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Programme and Plenary Speakers
In addition to concurrent sessions, the programme will include the following plenary speakers:
In addition to concurrent sessions, the programme will include the following plenary speakers:
- MM McCabe, King’s College London (Ancient Philosophy);
- John Marenbon, University of Cambridge (Medieval Philosophy);
- Susan James, Birkbeck College (Early Modern Philosophy);
- Michael Beaney, King’s College London and Humboldt University of Berlin (Historiography);
- Karyn Lai, UNSW, Sidney (Chinese Philosophical Tradition);
- Cristina Chimisso, Open University (20th Century Philosophy).
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Annual Conference – Provisional Programme
The BSHP gratefully acknowledges support from King’s Philosophy Department, and King’s Arts & Humanities Faculty.
WEDNESDAY 24 April
9:30-11:00 (Great Hall)
Introduction & Ancient Philosophy Plenary
MM McCabe (King’s College London), Glaucon, Gyges and the Good
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00: Four Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Great Hall; Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Symposium: The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
2) Early Modern Philosophy
The BSHP gratefully acknowledges support from King’s Philosophy Department, and King’s Arts & Humanities Faculty.
WEDNESDAY 24 April
9:30-11:00 (Great Hall)
Introduction & Ancient Philosophy Plenary
MM McCabe (King’s College London), Glaucon, Gyges and the Good
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00: Four Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Great Hall; Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Symposium: The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
- John Sellars (Royal Holloway), Introduction
- Michael Griffin (University of British Columbia), Commentary as Philosophy in Late Antiquity
- Sir Richard Sorabji (King’s College London & Oxford), How Greek Philosophy spread from two directions to Khushru I, king of Persia from 531 CE
2) Early Modern Philosophy
- JD Lyonhart (University of Cambridge), Wrangling about Innate ideas? Reflections upon Locke and Cudworth
- David Bartha (Central European University), Locke, Berkeley and Malebranche on divine nature
- Jon W. Thompson (King’s College London), Individuation, Identity, and Resurrection in Thomas Jackson and John Locke
3) Modern Philosophy
- Andrew Cooper (University of Warwick), Coleridge on the science of life
- Rory Phillips (University College London), Fichte on Optimism and Pessimism
- John-Baptiste Oduor (University of Essex), Schelling’s solution to the conflict between Metaphysical Rationalism and Freedom in the Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism
4) 20th Century Philosophy
- Sophia M. Connell (Birkbeck College London), Alice Ambrose and Early Analytic Philosophy
- Sean Crawford (University of Manchester), Dorothy Wrinch on Judgment as a Multiple Relation
- Sebastian Sunday (University of Oxford), Austin on analysis
1:00-2:00 Sandwich Lunch, provided by KCL catering (Venue TBC)
2:00-3:15 Medieval Philosophy Plenary
- John Marenbon (University of Cambridge), Rethinking Medieval Western Philosophy
3:15-3:30 Short Break
3:30-5:00: Four Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Great Hall; Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Ancient/Medieval Philosophy
- Jesse Johann Wilson (University of Southern California), Better than Best: A Puzzle about Happiness in Aristotle and Aquinas
- María Elton Bulnes (Instituto de Filosofía, Santiago), Why is Thomas Aquinas not a compatibilist?
- Carlo Cogliati (King’s College London), Aquinas and Nishida
2) Early Modern Philosophy
- Paola Romero (London School of Economics), Kant & Hobbes on Political Conflict
- Giovanni Gellera (Université de Lausanne), Sympathy for the Hobbes, A Scottish Calvanist Reception of Hobbes in the manuscript of James Dundas's Idea Philosophiae Moralis (1679)
3) Modern Philosophy
5:00-5:30 Coffee Break
5:30-7:00 Three Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Ancient Philosophy
2) Symposium: The Needs of Scientific Reason in Kant
3) Early Modern/Modern
THURSDAY 25 April
9:45-11:00 (Great Hall)
Early Modern Philosophy Plenary
Susan James (Birkbeck College London), The Power of Philosophical Thinking
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00: Four Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Great Hall; Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Ancient Philosophy
2) Medieval Philosophy
3) Early Modern Philosophy
4) Modern/20th century philosophy
- Patrick J. Connolly (Lehigh University), Susanna Newcome’s Moral Philosophy
- Mariagrazia Portera (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities – Edinburgh), Charles Darwin on beauty: a reassessment of his English and Scottish aesthetic sources
- Michael J. Futch (University of Tulsa), Selfhood and Substance: Bowne’s Theory of Personal Identity
- Landon D. C. Elkind (University of Iowa), The Search for Logical Forms: Logical Atomism as Term Busting
- Jordi Fairhurst (Universidad de las Islas Baleares), The ethical subject and the willing subject in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Shunichi Takagi (University College London), Complex ≠ Fact’ (Wittgenstein, 1 July 1931)
5:00-5:30 Coffee Break
5:30-7:00 Three Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Ancient Philosophy
- Derek van Zoonen (University of Groningen), Plato’s Cognitivist Theory of Pleasure in the Philebus
- Andrew Hull (Northwestern University), The Modal Definition of Being in Plato's Sophist
- Emmanuele Vimercati (Pontificia Università Lateranense, Vatican City), Plutarch on Divine Order and Political Government. A Cosmological Reading of To An Uneducated Ruler
2) Symposium: The Needs of Scientific Reason in Kant
- John Callanan (King’s College London), The Boundary of Pure Reason
- Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge), Kant’s Broad Conception of Science
- Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh), Kant’s account of the epistemic role of the feeling of reason’s need
3) Early Modern/Modern
- Peter West (Trinity College Dublin), John Sergeant as a Precursor to Berkeley’s Anti-Scepticism
- Akos Sivado (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), An Atomism of Biblical Proportions: The Reconciliation of Scriptural and Natural Knowledge in Sir William Petty's Natural Philosophy
- George Tomlinson (Brunel University), Marx and the Philosophical Concept of Life
THURSDAY 25 April
9:45-11:00 (Great Hall)
Early Modern Philosophy Plenary
Susan James (Birkbeck College London), The Power of Philosophical Thinking
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00: Four Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Great Hall; Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Ancient Philosophy
- Refik Güremen (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul), Synonymy in Genus-Predication in Aristotle’s Categories and Topics
- Harry Alanen (University of Oxford), Aristotle on Instrumental Changes
- Keziban Der (Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey), Aristotle: Is Matter Substance or Not?
2) Medieval Philosophy
- Ahmed Abdel Meguid (Syracuse University, NY), Towards a Thematic Reconstruction of the History of Islamic Philosophy: Philosophy as a Critique of Naturalistic Metaphysics
- Priyam Mathur (Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, India), Emancipating Traditional Systems: Exploring Lesser Known Knowledge Traditions within Advaita Vedanta
- Jiang Lu (Sun Yat-sen University, P. R. China), The Problem of Intentionality Concerning Ockham’s Mental Terms
3) Early Modern Philosophy
- Maria Vittoria Comacchi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), From Aristotle to Plato: Yehudah Abarbanel’s Concept of Love in the Late Fifteenth-century Neoplatonic Debate
- Pärttyli Rinne, Academia Kantiana, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University), Kant and the System of Love of Human Beings
- Jill Graper Hernandez (University of Texas at San Antonio), Lisbon, Redux: Early Modern Women and the Problem of (Natural) Evil
4) Modern/20th century philosophy
- Joel Katzav (University of Queensland), Theodore and Grace de Lagunas’ Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy
- Katherina Kinzel (University of Vienna), Heinrich Rickert on psychologism in historical method
- F.M. Janssen-Lauret (University of Manchester), Founding Mothers of Analytic Philosophy: The Early Influence of Female Logicians and Metaphysicians
1:00-2:00 Sandwich Lunch, provided by KCL catering (Venue TBC)
2:00-3:15 (Great Hall)
Historiography Plenary
Michael Beaney (King’s College London & Humboldt University of Berlin), Broadening the Canon and Roaming Freely in History of Philosophy: Some Daoist Reflections on Historiography
3:15-4:15 (Great Hall) AGM
4:15-4:45 Coffee Break (River Room)
4:45-6:45 Two Concurrent Sessions
2:00-3:15 (Great Hall)
Historiography Plenary
Michael Beaney (King’s College London & Humboldt University of Berlin), Broadening the Canon and Roaming Freely in History of Philosophy: Some Daoist Reflections on Historiography
3:15-4:15 (Great Hall) AGM
4:15-4:45 Coffee Break (River Room)
4:45-6:45 Two Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Small Committee Room; River Room
1) Symposium: British Platonism and Aesthetics in the 17th-18th Centuries
- Organiser: Prof. Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge)
- Cecilia Muratori (University of Warwick), ‘Out of the Darkness, through the Fire, into the Light’: Dionysius Andreas Freher and the International Legacy of Jacob Böhme
- Christian Hengstermann (University of Münster), Spinoza Kabbalisticus. Henry More and the English and German Pantheism Controversies
- Adrian Mihai (University of Cambridge), Cudworth’s ‘Pleasing Horrour’ and Kant’s ‘das Erhabene’. A Missing Link to Early German Romanticism
- Endre Szécsényi (University of Aberdeen / ELTE University, Budapest), Lord Shaftesbury’s Case: The Problems with Neo-Platonic Aesthetics
2) Symposium: Kant Through the Fregean Looking Glass
- Jessica Leech (King’s College London), Kant and Frege on Singular Judgment and Logical Inference
- Tyke Nunez (Universität Leipzig), Numerability, Logicism, and the Formality of Logic
- Andrew Stephenson (University of Southampton), Formalizing Kant’s Rules: a logic of conditional imperative and permissives
- Mark Textor (King’s College London), Seeing Judgment through the Fregean Lens
FRIDAY 26 April
9:45-11:00 (Great Hall)
Chinese Philosophy Plenary
Karyn Lai (UNSW, Sidney), Working with constraints: navigating the world with Zhuangzi
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break (Great Hall)
11:30-1:00 Four Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Great Hall; Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Ancient Philosophy
- Sadie McCloud (Wheaton College), Vice in Aristotle: A Variety of Possible States
- I Xuan Chong (University of St. Andrews), Aristotle on the Unity of the Virtues
- Mike Coxhead (King’s College London), Virtue and the explanation of epistemic value: Aristotle and contemporary virtue epistemology
2) Hellenistic Philosophy
- Katharine O’Reilly (University of Oxford), Cicero Reading the Cyrenaics on the Anticipation of Future Pain
- Alex R. Gillham (Indiana University Kokomo), Epicurus on the Goodness of Knowledge
- Benjamin Wilck (Humboldt University Berlin), Scientific Definitions and a New Problem for Pyrrhonian Scepticism
3) Early Modern Philosophy
- Giada Margiotto (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Judgment and Volition in Early Modern England: King, Clarke, Collins
- Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin), Thomas Reid on Promises, Social Operations, and Liberty
- Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Hume, early modern atheism and the art of theological lying
4) Historiography/Methodology/Philosophy and Science
- Konstantinos Chatzigeorgiou (University of Glasgow), How the Mind-Body Problem Shaped the Historiography of Science: Revisiting E. A. Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science
- Emily Herring (University of Leeds), Bergson among the Biologists
- Yael Gazit (Tel Aviv University), History Appropriated: A Change of Perspective on Past Engagement
2:00-3:15 (Great Hall)
20th Century Philosophy Plenary
Cristina Chimisso (Open University), Historical Epistemology
3:15-3:30 Short Break
3:30-5:00 Four Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Great Hall; Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Symposium: Pyrrhonian Logic, Reconsidered
- Máté Veres (Central European University & Eötvös Loránd University), Sextus Empiricus on sign- inference and proof in PH II
- Johanna Schmitt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Sextus on the necessary expertise for solving sophisms
- Justin Vlasits (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), Pyrrhonism and the Dialectical Methods: The Aims and Argument of PH II
- Roger T. Ames (Peking University, China), Chinese Culture and its Interpretive Context: The Resolutely Historical, Contrapuntal Nature of Correlative Thinking
- Wu Genyou (Wuhan University, China), Three Metaphysical Approaches in Contemporary Sinophonic Philosophy
- Sarah Flavel (Bath Spa University), Commentary as Philosophy: On Interpretation in the History of Daoist Thinking
- Xiao Ouyang (University College Cork), The Problem of Creativity: a Reflection on Intellectual Progress and Aesthetic Innovation in the Chinese Tradition
3) Medieval/Renaissance/Early Modern
- Idit Chikurel (University of Potsdam), Influences of Greek Geometrical Analysis on Maimon's Notions of Invention and Analysis
- Valentina Zaffino (The Pontifical Lateran University, Rome), Ficino on (pseudo-)Aristotle on Providence
- Bartosz Zukowski (University of Lodz, Poland), Secondary Qualities - Primary Issue. Gradual Subjectivization of Sense Perception and Two Patterns of Early Modern Idealism
4) Early Modern Philosophy
- Martin Lenz (University of Groningen), Biased Beliefs: Spinoza on the Interaction of Ideas
- Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), Spinoza on the theological-political significance of architectural design
- Martin Pickup (University of Oxford), The Infinity of Leibniz’s Infinite Analysis Account of Contingency
5:00-5:30 Coffee Break (Venue TBC)
5:30-7:30 Three Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
5:30-7:30 Three Concurrent Sessions
Venues: Small Committee Room; Council Room; River Room
1) Symposium: Medieval Arabic Philosophy and its Reception
2) Symposium: Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics - A Key Philosophical Text for the Eighteenth Century
3) Symposium: Why we go Wrong: Evil and Moral Failure in Luther and Kant
- Andreas Lammer (University of Trier, Germany), The Early Arabic Reception of Avicenna’sAccount of Corporeality: Matter and Body in the Sixth/Twelfth Century
- Wahid M. Amin (University of Birmingham), Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī and the Problem of Universalsin the Risāla fī taḥqīq al-kulliyyāt
- Anna-Katharina Strohschneider (University of Würzburg, Germany), Which Causes are Studied in Metaphysics? Antonio Trombetta as an Unexpected Follower of Averroes
- Eva Sahr (University of Würzburg, Germany), Averroes’ Theory of First Principles and its Reception in Sixteenth-Century Italy
2) Symposium: Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics - A Key Philosophical Text for the Eighteenth Century
- Aaron Wells (University of Notre Dame), Explanation in Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique
- Qiu Lin (Duke University), Émilie Du Châtelet’s Views on Space
- Monica Solomon (University of Southern California), Du Châtelet’s Philosophy of Time
- Andrea Reichenberger (Paderborn University), Émilie Du Châtelet on Galileo’s Law of Free Fall
3) Symposium: Why we go Wrong: Evil and Moral Failure in Luther and Kant
- Bob Stern (University of Sheffield), Human Evil and Divine Grace in Luther and Kant
- Irina Schumski (Universität Tübingen), Kant’s Moral Principles in Circumstances of Evil
- Anastasia Berg (University of Cambridge), Evil and the Problem of Moral Self-Knowledge
- Martin Sticker (University of Bristol) & Joe Saunders (Durham University), Beyond the Duty / Self-love Dichotomy
End of programme.
The BSHP gratefully acknowledges support from King’s College London Philosophy Department and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
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Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza
Chair, British Society for the History of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS -- UK
Chair, British Society for the History of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS -- UK
