Mariska Leunissen (UNC) "Conviction, (Alternative) Facts, and Fake News in Aristotle's Natural Science"

*****Please note that this event has been CANCELLED*****

Ohad Nachtomy will present work on "On Living Mirrors and Mites: Leibniz’s Encounter with Pascal on Infinity and Living Things circa 1696." We will meet from 4:00 - 6:00 (including reception) in Robbins Library on the second floor of Emerson hall. The paper (see attached) will be read ahead. 

David Sedley, Emeritus Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge will speak to the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop on "Xenocrates and the Invention of Platonism"

Lucy Allais, Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy (UC San Diego) will present a talk entitled "Kant's Racism" to the History of Philosophy Workshop at Harvard University on April 17, 2017 from 4-5:30 in Robbins Library (Emerson 211). A reception in the library will follow.

This workshop aims to investigate the rise and implications of seemingly teleological laws and principles of nature from the 17th century to the modern day.

It is a familiar story that natural teleology played an important role in Ancient and Medieval philosophy. Things were held to strive towards their natural place in the universe: Fire rises in order to reach the heavens, rocks fall in order to reach the center of the earth. Such explanatory appeals to ends, purposes, final causation and the general order of nature were largely contested with the birth of the mechanical philosophy...

Schedule:

2:00 – 3:15: Thomas Leinkauf (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Leibniz Forschungsstelle, Münster) “The concept of ‘vinculum’ and the problem of ‘contact’ and activity between two kinds of being: material and immaterial, finite and infinite, natural and metaphysical in Early Modern Philosphy”

Session Chair: Leah Wittington (Harvard)

3:30 – 5:00: Christian Barth (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) "Leibniz on Judgment and Responsibility"

Session...

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Colin Chamberlain (Temple University) will give a talk for the History of Philosophy Work-in-Progress Group on Friday, January 30 at 2PM in the Tanner Room.

Chamberlain is a recent graduate of the Department of Philosophy whose work focuses on the body problem in Descartes and Malebranche, as well as in contemporary philosophy.