Programme
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Venue: National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square East, Dublin 2
9:15–9:30 Welcome
9:30–11:00 Julie Walsh (Wellesley College), “Gabrielle Suchon, Freedom, and the Neutral Life”
Commentator: Katherine O’Donnell (University College Dublin)
11:00–11:15 Tea & Coffee Break
11:15–12:45 Nicholas Vallone (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Cartesian Agency: Persons, Volitions, and Actions in Descartes' Philosophy”
Commentator: Vili Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki)
12:45–2:30 Lunch Break
2:30–4:00 Stefan Storrie (Independent Scholar), “On the reasons for Locke’s second edition change of mind about human action and freedom”
Commentator: Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
4:00–4:15 Tea & Coffee Break
4:15–5:45 Keynote talk: Jacqueline Broad (Monash University), “Selfhood and Self-government in Women’s Devotional Writings of the Early Modern Period”
Commentator: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin)
7:00 Workshop Dinner for Speakers and Commentators
Friday, 28 September 2018
Venue: School of Philosophy, D522 Agnes Cuming Seminar Room, Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4
9:30–11:00 Daniel Schneider (University of Haifa), “Spinoza, Borges and Frankfurt cases: A Necessitarian theory of Agency”
Commentator: Jack Stetter (University Paris 8)
11:00–11:15 Tea & Coffee Break
11:15–12:45 Jonathan Head (Keele University), “Anne Conway and Henry More on Divine and Human Freedom”
Commentator: Alissa MacMillan (University of Antwerp)
12:45–2:15 Lunch Break
2:15–3:45 Matthew Leisinger (University of Cambridge), “The Role of Desire in Cudworth’s Account of Human Agency”
Commentator: Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
3:45–4:00 Tea & Coffee Break
4:00–5:30 Patricia Sheridan (University of Guelph), “Agency, Virtue, and Fitness in the Moral Philosophies of Damaris Masham and Catharine Trotter Cockburn”
Commentator: Kenneth Pearce (Trinity College Dublin)
Saturday, 29 September 2018
Sightseeing in Dublin
Details tba
Registration
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Mind Association, UCD Seed Funding, and the UCD School of Philosophy.