International Conference Early Modern Philosophy: Metaphysics, Physics, Method(s)

ZRC SAZU, Institute of Philosophy,

invites you to an international conference

Early Modern Philosophy: Metaphysics, Physics, Method(s)

The conference will take place on May 30 at the Institute of Philosophy, novitrg 2, 3rd floor.

Morning session: Descartes

Chair: Gregor Kroupa

09:30–10:15   Matjaž Vesel: Descartes on the nature of motion and the motion of the Earth: The World and Principles of Philosophy

10:30–11:15   Ervik Cejvan: On mind and motion and the question of the self in Descartes’ Meditations

11:30–12:15   Matija Jan: Different meanings of the word modus in the World and Principles of Philosophy

Afternoon session: Spinoza and Leibniz

Chair: Matjaž Vesel

14:00–14:45   Oberto Marrama: Spinoza on sympathy and humanity

15:00–15:45   Kajetan Škraban: Passions and affects in Spinoza’s Short Treatise and Ethics and the role of Stoicism in Spinoza’s theory of the passions

16:00–16:45   Jan Palkoska: The ontological status of the laws of nature in Leibniz