Québec-Ontario Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy

Join us for  the sixth annual Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, organized by Marleen Rozemond.

Please contact Vincent Lee with any questions.

Program

Friday, November 22, 2024

(OISE RM 4426)

9:00-9:30

Coffee and pastries

9:30-11:00

Jon Miller (Queen’s), “Grotius and Spinoza on Human Nature”

Comment: Vincent Lee (Toronto)

11:15-12:45

Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (Ottawa), “Publish or Perish: The Problem of Clandestine Philosophy in Diderot’s ‘History of Philosophy’ Articles in the Encyclopédie”

Comment: Emmanuel Mabille (Montréal)

12:45-2:15

Lunch

2:15-3:45

Manuel Vasquez-Villavicencio (McMaster), “The Pleasures of Truth and Intrinsic Motivation in Hume’s Account of Curiosity and Inquiry”

Comment: Thierry Côté (Toronto)

4:00-5:30

Margaret Schabas (UBC), “Hume on Economic Inequality”

Comment: Carole Bongrand (Québec à Montréal)

Saturday, November 23, 2024

(JHB 418)

10-10:30

Coffee and pastries

10:30-12:00

Lisa Shapiro (McGill), “Gabrielle Suchon on the Desire for Knowledge, Habit, and Women’s Solidarity”

Comment: Raphaelle Dupont (Toronto)