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The workshop is funded by the Academy of Finland project
Metaphysics of Power from Descartes to Nietzsche
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please contact Valtteri Viljanen
Email: valvil@utu.fi
Friday 16 December 2011 12:00 Lunch 15:15 Coffee 18:45 Dinner 10:30 Coffee 11:45 Lunch 14:30 Coffee 16:00 Break 19:00 Dinner
9:30 Valtteri Viljanen: Opening words
9:35 Mika Perälä (University of Jyväskylä): Perception and Explanation in Aristotle
Chair/Commentator: Arto Repo (University of Turku)
10:35 Coffee
11:00 Frédéric Manzini (Catholic University of Paris): Spinoza’s Intuition as Opposed to Abstraction Rather Than to Deduction
Chair/Commentator: Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku)
13:15 Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University, Newark): Descartes’ Causal Principle and the Case of Body-to-Mind Causation
14:15 Juhana Lemetti (University of Helsinki): Passive and Active Imagination in the Sixth Meditation
Chair/Commentator: Lilli Alanen (Uppsala University)
15:45 Mogens Lærke (University of Aberdeen/ENS de Lyon): Spinoza and the Cosmological Argument According to Letter 12
16:45 Break
17:00 Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku): The Architecture of Spinoza’s Ontology Geometrically Illustrated
Chair/Commentator: Juhani Pietarinen (University of Turku)
Saturday 17 December 2011
9:30 Jon Miller (Queen’s University): Spinoza and the Stoics on Happiness
Chair/Commentator: Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku)
10:45 Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College, CUNY): Spinoza on Mental Causation
Chair/Commentator: Olli Koistinen (University of Turku)
13:30 Peter Myrdal (Uppsala University): Leibniz on Powers, Faculties, and Laws
Chair/Commentator: Markku Roinila (University of Helsinki)
15:00 Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere): Hume’s Refutation of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Chair/Commentator: Arto Repo (University of Turku)
16:15 Andreas Schmidt (University of Tübingen): “Not Yet a Category”: Kant’s Two Notions of Existence
17:15 Olli Koistinen (University of Turku): Kant on Representing Causality
Chair/Commentator: Hemmo Laiho (University of Turku)