Spinoza’s Natural Philosophy and the Idea of the Human Individual
Workshops
Final Workshop (Online) in preparation of the volume Spinoza and the Human Perspective
Theme: Spinoza and the Human Life Form
June, 17 – 18, 2021, Online
Speakers: Noa Shein (Ben Gurion), Beth Lord (Aberdeen), Ursula Renz (Graz), Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Johns Hopkins), Michael Della Rocca (Yale), Michael A. Rosenthal (Toronto), Steven Nadler (Madison), Michael LeBuffe (Otago), Barnaby R. Hutchins (Ghent), Sarah Tropper (Graz), Mogens Laerke (ENS Lyon/Oxford), Philip Waldner (Graz), Daniel Garber (Princeton), Lia Levy (Rio Grande do Sul), Oliver Istvan Toth (Graz). Further participants: Susan James (Birkbeck), Julie Klein (Villanova), Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser), Namita Herzl (Hildesheim).
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Third Workshop of the FWF-project P 29072-G24 on Spinoza on the Concept of the Human Life Form
Friday 28. June – Saturday 29. June 2019 – University of Klagenfurt
Theme: Politics and the Human Life Form.
June, 28 – 29, 2019, University of Klagenfurt.
Speakers: Martin Saar (Frankfurt); Justin Steinberg (CUNY New York); Barnaby Hutchins (AAU Klagenfurt), Ursula Renz (AAU Klagenfurt), Oliver Toth (AAU Klagenfurt); Roman Schmid (AAU Klagenfurt); Philip Waldner (AAU Klagenfurt). Further Participants: Marion Blancher (ENS Lyon/AAU Klagenfurt); Namita Herzl (AAU Klagenfurt).
Second Workshop of the FWF-project P 29072-G24 on Spinoza on the Concept of the Human Life Form
Organized in Cooperation with the IHRIM of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Labex Commode of the University of Lyon
Theme: Spinoza’s Natural Philosophy and the Idea of the Human Individual/La philosophie naturelle de Spinoza et l’idée d’individu humain.
May 10 – 11, 2018, ENS Lyon.
Speakers: Pierre-Francois Moreau, ENS Lyon; Michael LeBuffe, Otago; Sarah Tropper, AAU Klagenfurt; Julie Henry, ENS Lyon; Isabelle Ledoux, Lyon; Jacques-Louis Lantoine, Lyon; Raphaelle Andrault, CNRS; Oliver Istvan Toth, AAU Klagenfurt; Marion Blancher, ENS Lyon; Daniel Garber, Princeton; Mogens Laerke, CNRS). Further participants: Ursula Renz, AAU Klagenfurt/Visiting Professor ENS Lyon, Namita Herzl, Philip Waldner, Roman Schmid.
Mini-Workshop with Prof. Michael Rosenthal (Washington University).
Theme: Issues in Political Philosophy. October 16, 2017, University of Klagenfurt.
First Workshop of the FWF-project P 29072-G24 on Spinoza on the Concept of the Human Life Form.
Theme: God, Man, and Being Alive: How to Understand Spinoza’s Metaphysics, while Taking Human Life Seriously?
June 26 – 28, 2017, University of Klagenfurt.
Speakers: Michael Della Rocca (Yale University), Roman Schmid (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Robert Schnepf (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Ursula Renz (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Karolina Huebner (University of Toronto), Barnaby Hutchins (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Philip Waldner (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Sarah Tropper (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Sanem Soyarslan (North Carolina State University). Further participants: Namita Herzl, Oliver Toth
Past Talks
Belief, sensation, belief! Spinoza on an essentially human mental state
Online department talk by Ursula Renz on the 9th of April 2021, Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto.
Cavendish on the Social Dynamics of Physics
Talk by Barnaby Hutchins on the 4th of December 2020, New York City, Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, Fordham University (online).
Spinoza’s Naturalist View on Humanity and Human Life
Talk by Ursula Renz at the Workshop “Social Critique and the Concept of Nature” on the 27th -28th of February 2020, University of Luzern.
Spinoza on Human Subjectivity and the Notion of God’s Intellect
Talk by Barnaby Hutchins and Ursula Renz on the 10th of October 2019, London Spinoza Circle, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
Spinoza and Agamben on the names of God
Talk by Philipp Waldner on the 28th of August 2019 at the conference “SEP-FEP 2019 Joint Annual Conference” at Royal Holloway University of London.
Full explainability and standpoint relativity: Spinoza’s anti-essentialist rationalism
Talk by Barnaby Hutchins and Ursula Renz on the 13th of August 2019 at “The Modal-Explanatory Nexus: A Dialogue between the Contemporary and the Early Modern Era”, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
Collegium Spinozanum III (University of Groningen) :
2.7.2019 Namita Herzl (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt): Spinozas Love
3.7.2019 Barnaby Hutchins (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt):
Spinoza and the attributes: The standpoint interpretation
4.7.2019 Sarah Tropper (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt): The Import of the
Rejection of Metamorphosis in Spinoza
4.7.2019 Oliver Istvan Toth (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt): Cloudy business
– Interpretative and methodological issues concerning E2p7s
5.7.2019 Philipp Waldner (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt): Eliminativist and reductionist issues in Spinoza’s conception of law
Spinoza on the Forces of Law: A Political Perspective
Talk by Philip Waldner on the 19th of February 2019 at Yale University, USA.
Spinoza’s Dual Conception of Law: An Anti-Eliminativist Approach
Talk by Philip Waldner on the 20th of April 2019, NYC Early Modern WIP Grad Workshop, NYU, New York City, USA.
Mind and Body Across Time and Discipline
Talk by Barnaby Hutchins on the 23rd of January 2019 at IEA Paris.
Thomistic Teleology in Leibniz’s Notion of Perfection
Talk by Sarah Tropper on the 26th of June 2018 at Van Leer Institute Jerusalem.
Spinoza on Prophetic Imagination
Talk by Philip Waldner on the 19th of June 2018 at Joint Annual Conference, University of Essex, Great Britian.
Finnish–Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Talk by Barnaby Hutchins on the 28th of May 2018 at Budapest.
Antwerp Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Talk by Barnaby Hutchins on the 17th of March 2018 at Antwerp University, Belgium.
The Anatomy of a Melancholy Soul. Robert Burton as a “Spirituall Physitian”
Talk by Sarah Tropper on the 22nd of February 2018 at Sarton Centre for History of Science, University of Ghent.
‘Against objectivity: Metametaphysical pluralism and the early modern canon’
Talk by Barnaby Hutchins on the 12th of December 2017 at the Sarton Centre, Ghent.
Monster, Götter und geistvolle Papageien. Naturphilosophische Klassifikationssysteme in der frühen Neuzeit
Talk by Sarah Tropper on the 1st of June 2017, at the Symposium ‘Philosophie und Wissenschaft in der frühen Neuzeit’, University of Graz.
Spinoza on the Good Life for Humans
Ursula Renz gave a talk on the 11th of June 2017, at the conference “Being Human: The History of a Concept” at the University of Toronto. For more information please visit: Philosophy Toronto
Winch’s Lectures on Spinoza
Talk by Sarah Tropper on the 2nd of July 2017, at the Conference ‘Truth in Politics and Metaphysics: Celebrating the Work of Peter Winch’, King’s College London.
Collegium Spinozanum II (University of Groningen) :
4.7.2017 (15.00-17.00) Oliver Istvan Toth (Eotvos Lorand University / Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt): Spinoza’s theory of intellect: Alexandrian, Averroist, Themistian or Cartesian?
6.7.2017 (11.30-12.50) Philip Waldner (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt): Spinoza on the forces of law: a political perspective
7.7.2017 (11.30-13.00) Sarah Tropper (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt): ‘Form’ as a Limiting Term in Spinoza’s Conception of Species
For more information please visit: Collegium Spinozanum II
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