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Remember to check THE EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY CALENDAR for Spinoza-related events.
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CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR L'HISTOIRE DES SYSTÈMES DE PENSÉE MODERNES (CHSPM)
Université Paris 1 - Sorbonne, Paris, France
Location ? Université Paris 1 – Sorbonne; 17, Rue de la Sorbonne; 75005 Paris.
Organiser? Filip Buyse (CHSPM, Université Paris 1- Sorbonne)
When ? December 11 & 12, 2009
Language ? French/English
More info ? filip.buyse1@telenet.be
Entrance: free ( all are welcome !)
Friday December 11
9:00 – 9:30 : Introduction (F. Buyse , organiser, Université Paris 1 - Sorbonne)
9:30 – 10:30 : La bibliothèque de Spinoza (Henri Krop, University of Rotterdam)
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 11:45 : Joseph Solomon Delmedigo: Student of Galileo and Teacher of Spinoza (Jacob Adler, University of Arkansas)
11:45 – 12:45 : Science, Demonstration and the Art of Hermeneutics in Spinoza and Galileo. (Tamar Rudavsky, Ohio State University)
12:45 – 14:15 : Lunch
14:15 – 15:15 :Galileo and Spinoza: Historical and Theoretical perspectives . (Franco Biasutti, University of Padua)
15:15 – 15:30: Break
15:30 – 16:30 : Spinoza critique Galilée, ou le concordisme en question. (Pietro Redondi, Università di Milano-Bicocca )
16:30 – 17:30: Natura naturans and Natura naturata in Spinoza. (Herman De Dijn, Harvard University + Prof. Em. of the KU Leuven)
17:30 – 18:00 : Discussion and questions (Theo Verbeek, The Utrecht University)
Saturday December 12
9:00 -9:15 : Introduction (F. Buyse, organiser, Université Paris 1 - Sorbonne)
9:15 – 10:45 : Mechanics versus mechanism: Galileo, Spinoza, and Newton. (Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney)
10:45 – 11:00 : Break
11:00 – 12:00 : Boyle, Spinoza and Galileo: Is Spinoza a strict Mechanical Philosopher ? (Filip Buyse, Université de Paris 1-Sorbonne)
12:00 – 13:30 : Lunch
13:30 – 14:30: Le concept de l’infini chez Spinoza et Galilée (E. Vampoulis, University of Patras)
14:30 – 15:30: Titre à préciser (Fabien Chareix , Université Paris IV- Sorbonne)
15:30 – 15:45: Break
15:45 – 16:45: Spinoza and optics. (Graham Burnett, Princeton + Kevin Von Duuglas Ittu + James A. Schulz)
16:45– 17:45 : Discussion and questions (Theo Verbeek, The Utrecht University)
17:45 – 18:00: Conclusion (Filip Buyse)
Contact: Filip Buyse, Université de Paris 1- Sorbonne
(filip.buyse1@telenet.be)
The Birkbeck College, London, info site also has the link to podcasts of the conference (May 7-8, 2009).
About Spinoza Research Network:
A two-year project funded by the AHRC and hosted at the University of Dundee
October 2008 - September 2010
The aim of the Spinoza Research Network is to bring together researchers from different disciplines who make use of the ideas and texts of Baruch Spinoza. During the two-year project we will be holding two conferences, and developing this website as a hub for researchers, students, and interested readers.
Prof. Jari Niemi (Florida Atlantic) is the author of this Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry.
Prof. John Immerwahr (Villanova) reviews Prof. Jonathan Bennett's "labor of love" in Teaching Philosophy 31:3, September 2008.
An excerpt from the site:
Libertas philosophandi. Spinoza als gids voor een vrije wereld, centring on the life of Spinoza and the reception of his work in the seventeenth century. More than half of the books in the exhibition, and certainly all of Spinoza’s own works, were printed in Amsterdam. The exhibition will also feature a selection of (engraved) portraits of Spinoza.
The exhibition focusses on the works of Spinoza, those of his friends and foes, partly from the library’s own holdings, although the exhibition also gratefully relies on loans from institutions and private collectors in the Netherlands and abroad. Books printed in Amsterdam will be an important feature in the exhibition: Amsterdam was rightfully regarded as a haven where works could be printed that were prohibited elsewhere. The title of the exhibition, Libertas philosophandi, the freedom to philosophize, expresses one of Spinoza’s profoundest convictions. To him the freedom of thought was boundless, although individual dignity should not be compromised. Spinoza’s radical ideas were vehemently opposed by the theologians of his days. His plea was one for freedom of thought and philosophy (also with regard to religion and its relationship to politics) which could contribute to true democracy, according to him the optimal form of government. Spinoza’s philosophy is still relevant today.
Do check out the event pictures and the exhibition guide which has, among other things, pictures of houses where Spinoza lived.
The 2008 edition of Historia Philosophica has Spinoza as its main theme. Many thanks to Mr. Filip Buyse who brought my attention to this, and whose article is also featured in the journal.
The most recent work of Prof. Wim Klever (Rotterdam) is now available at this new Spinoza site. For more of Prof. Klever's and others' writings (mostly in Dutch), do check its secondary literature section.
Noa Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) is the author of this new SEP article.
This very neat site also includes Revista Conatus, a journal on Spinoza's philosophy with articles written mostly in Portuguese and a few in English.
Many thanks to Barrett Pashak for alerting me to this work of Constantin Brunner. Mr. Pashak is also the English editor of the work and the owner of the site linked above.
The NYT has an obituary of Prof. Arne Naess and the University of Oslo has his academic site. Also, a review on a fairly recent work critical of Deep Ecology.
This essay by Prof. Lars Tønder (Political Science, Northwestern) is but one of the many others reacting to Prof. Charles Taylor's A Secular Age.
The review article is over five years old, but it is still worth reading.
From an email sent by Prof. Emeritus Wim Klever (Rotterdam):
This time I also wish to inform you and to ask you to forward this information about a new publication of mine about Spinoza's master Franciscus van den Enden, a book that I published privately and may be acquired via my e-mail. See attachment*. Concerning the last item mentioned at the bottom of the page [in a different email], I can now say, that a Dutch version of this manuscript has now appeared under the title John Locke (1632-1704). Vermomde en miskende Spinozist. Rapport van historisch onderzoek (2008). The English version under the title Locke's Disguised Spinozism will before long appear as a journal article. I hope that you will find a way to communicate this 'news' to the audience of your site, the friends of Spinoza. Many of my former articles are contained in books or journals you mention.
More information can be found here (in Dutch), and Prof. Klever can be reached at klever at casema dot nl.
Prof. Simo Knuuttila (Theological Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion, Helsinki) is the author of the 2006 book. The Medieval Review has an article on it.
About this latest of Prof. Michael Della Rocca's (Yale) works on Spinoza:
Beginning with an overview of Spinoza's life, Della Rocca carefully unpacks and explains Spinoza's philosophy: his metaphysics of substance and argument at the center of his whole system that God is the sole independent substance; Spinoza's account of the human mind and its relation to the body; his theory that human beings tend towards self-preservation and the role of the emotions; his most famous work, the Ethics, including the problem of free will; and his writings on the state, religion and scripture. Della Rocca concludes with a chapter on Spinoza's legacy and how modern philosophers, Hume, Hegel, and Nietzsche, responded to Spinoza's challenge.
About the site:
This website is maintained by Stephen H. Daniel at Texas A&M University as a service to scholars working in the history of early modern philosophy. It brings together information about calls for papers, event schedules, and contacts about presentations, conferences, and seminars dealing with research in late 16th, 17th, and 18th century philosophy.
Do check the site to find out about upcoming Spinoza conferences. A link to the site has also been added under Other Online Sources section on the left column.
Published ten years ago, I have found Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials very useful when attempting to make more sense of the intellectual context in works of not just Descartes but Spinoza and other major early modern philosophers as well. Translators of this collection of primary sources are Roger Ariew (South Florida), John Cottingham (Reading), and Tom Sorell (Birmingham). Marjorie Grene (Virginia Tech) co-translated one of the selections as well.
A description taken from this wonderful Spinoza-related site:
This portion of the site is a collection of research sources, theories and analyses surrounding the question of the likely optical instruments and optical knowledge that Spinoza had, with a view to understanding how his practices and experiences informed his metaphysics, an understanding which may in turn provide valuable insight into the heritage of mechanization and instrumentation we have received since the first bold attempts to marry instrument, geometry and vision by Descartes.
Do check it out!
Previously catalogued as anonymous, this copy of a familiar pose of Spinoza is now believed to have been the work of Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida.
Another entry on Spinoza in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written by Prof. Justin Steinberg (Colby College, but moving to Brooklyn College, CUNY). Also, an essay by the same author: Spinoza and the Problem of Freedom.
Ethica IV: Spinoza on Reason and the Free Man (Spinoza by 2000)
Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy (Suny Series in Jewish Philosophy)
Antonio Damasio: Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Process of His Reasoning
Jonathan I. Israel: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Michael Della Rocca: Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza
Yirmiyahu Yovel: Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Adventures of Immanence
J. Samuel Preus: Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority
Spinoza and the Sciences (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
Steven B. Smith: Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics
Steven Nadler: Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
Willi Goetschel: Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine
Nancy K. Levene: Spinoza's Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and Reason
Theo Verbeek: Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise: Exploring 'the Will of God'
Steven B. Smith: Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Benedictus de Spinoza: The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume I
Benedictus de Spinoza: The Essential Spinoza: Ethics And Related Writings
Richard McKeon: The Philosophy Of Spinoza: The Unity Of His Thought
