We are pleased to announce the coming of the “1st Brussels Seminar in Modern Philosophy” that will take place in Belgium, Bruxelles, on May 07, 2014. The seminar is organized by Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). The venue is Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50 – CP 175/1, Room S.NA4.302, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Several contributions on important topics in modern philosophy will be discussed, specifically with reference to Descartes, Leibniz and Kant.
The program follows:
10.00 Arnaud Pelletier (ULB): welcome
10.15 – 11.45 Michel Fichant (Université de Paris-Sorbonne):
Monades et monadologie: les pièges de la représentation
11.45 – 12.30 Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University):
„Ce qu’il vient de dire de la double infinité n’est qu’une entrée dans mon système“ – Leibniz’s Response to Pascal on the Infinity and the Nature of Living Beings
14.00 – 14.45 Mariana Campos (Université de Rio de Janeiro):
Le débat sur le statut des corps dans la métaphysique de Descartes
14.45 – 15.30 Maria Hotes (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München):
Limites de la raison et métaphysique chez Kant: De la première Critique aux Progrès de la métaphysique
16.00 – 16.45 Marco Santi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
`Subjective Validity’ and Subjective Grounds for Assent: Kant’s Judgments of Perception in the Context of his Logic
16.45 – 17.30 Christina Drogalis (Loyola University Chicago):
Temporal Language and Atemporal “Change”: Using Symbols to Make Sense of Intelligible Moral Improvement in Kant’s Ethics
17.30 Conclusions