19-21 May, 2013
The Spinoza Center at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Cooperation with Tel Aviv University.
PROGRAM:
Sunday, May 19, 2013
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Upper Hall
10:10–10:30 Opening and Greetings
10:30–12:30 SESSION ONE
- Lilli Alanen, Uppsala University: Affects and Ideas in Spinoza’s Therapy of the Passions
- Ericka Tucker, California State Polytechnic University: Emotion and Reason in Spinoza’s Social Theory
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:30 SESSION TWO
- Yakir Levin, Ben–Gurion University of the Negev: The Unity and Coherence of Spinoza’s Account of Freedom, Reason, and the Passions
- Julie R. Klein, Villanova University: Intellection and Freedom
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–18:00 SESSION THREE
- Noa Naaman-Zauderer, Tel Aviv University: Self–Experience and the Imago Dei Doctrine in Descartes and Spinoza
- Jonathan Fine, Columbia University: Becoming Like God: Freedom of the Will in Descartes
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Upper Hall
10:30–12:30 SESSION FOUR
- John Cottingham, University of Reading: The Passions: Help or Hindrance to the Good Life?
- Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University: Descartes and Spinoza on the Primitive Passions: Why So Different?
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:30 SESSION FIVE
- Amihud Gilead, University of Haifa: Spinoza on Passions, Reason, and Freedom
- John Grey, Boston University: Spinoza on Reason, Freedom, and the Composition of the Body
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–18:00 SESSION SIX
- Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University; Visiting professor at Tel Aviv University: Descartes vs. Kant on Reason and Representation
- Elliot Samuel Paul, Barnard College,Columbia University: Reason as the Faculty of Modal Cognition: Descartes on Certainty and Doubt
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building, Room 496
10:30–12:30 SESSION SEVEN
- Michael Della Rocca, Yale University: Spinoza’s Causal Theory of Action: Inexplicability in, and of, Action
- Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan University: Agency and Necessity in Spinoza
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:30 SESSION EIGHT
- Omri Boehm, The New School for Social Research: Freedom, Générosité, and the Cogito: Cartesian Self-Constitution Reconsidered
- Saja Parvizian, University of Illinois at Chicago: Cartesian Generosity Reconsidered
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–18:00 SESSION NINE
- Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Johns Hopkins University: Spinoza’s Amor Dei Intellectualis
- Yirmiyahu Yovel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The New School for Social Research: Reason and Beatitude: Self-Love in Humans and in God
Admission is free
On Sunday-Monday, May 19-20, the conference will be held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
On Tuesday, May 21, the conference will be held at Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building, Room 496
Contact: Noa Naaman [noaz@POST.TAU.AC.IL]
