Second Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP)
When early modern thinkers began to oppose the metaphysical framework of aristotelian hylomorphism and maintained that natural things are to be explained in purely mechanistical terms, explaining mind became problematic:
How do mind and its various activities (as perception, imagination, memory, thinking etc.) relate to “natural processes”? Are they identical? Or radically different? In which categories are they to be described? And how can an explanation of mind be integrated into a complete account of nature?
In the announced conference such problems are discussed in its historical context and related to contemporary debates of the philosophy of mind by leading scholars from all over Europe and the U.S.
Scientific Organizers:
Dominik Perler (Berlin)
Johannes Haag (Potsdam)
Invited Plenary Speakers:
Michael Della Rocca (Yale)
Dennis Des Chene (St Louis)
Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Susan James (London)
Jonathan Lowe (Durham)
Han van Ruler (Rotterdam)
Udo Thiel (Graz)
Cathrine Wilson (New York)
Scientific Colloquia (organized by:)
Lena Halldenius (Malmö)
Michael Hampe (Zurich)
James Hill (Prague)
Andreas Hüttemann (Münster)
Cees Leijenhorst (Nijmegen)
Sophie Roux (Grenoble)
Participants are requested to register under until 10 February 2010.
Congress fees amount to 50 Euro (standard), 30 Euro (ESEMP members) and 10 Euros (students).
For further information please visit the conference website www.kongress.esemp.de
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