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Conference (Bogazici, Istanbul) 'Man and Nature from Descartes to Wollstonecraft' June 29th - July 2nd

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Lucas Thorpe

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Jun 22, 2011, 3:25:28 PM6/22/11
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Dear All,

There will be a philosophy conference next week at Bogazici University from
June 29th and July 2nd on "Man and Nature from Descartes to Wollstonecraft".

Everyone is welcome. All talks will be on the Main (Guney) campus in TB
130.

Details about the event can be found at:
http://www.phil.boun.edu.tr/lthorpe/index.php?request=29-06-11-man-and-
nature

The details are below:

Man and Nature from Descartes to Wollstonecraft
June 29th � July 2nd
Boğazi�i University
Philosophy Department

Main (G�ney) Campus TB 130

Wednesday, June 29th

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 12:00 Johannes Fritsche (Boğazi�i):
�Causality in the Paradigm Shift to Early Modern Physics.�

12:00 - 13:30 Martine Pecharman (CNRS, Paris/Oxford)
�Hobbes on Human Nature.�

Lunch

15:00 -16:30 Jean Salem (Sorbonne):
�French Libertines on the Artificiality of Nature.�

16:30 -18:00 Courtney Fugate (AUB):
�Kant on Nature and Second Nature�


Thursday, June 30th

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 12:00 Pinar Canevi (Boğazi�i):
�Modality: Plotinus' bequest to Philosophy�


12:00 - 13:30 David Butorac (Fatih):
�Descartes, Neoplatonism and the Theological Origins of Nature�

Lunch

15:00 -16:30 Melsen Tunca (Boğazi�i)
�Does Nature Necessarily Unify as One�

16:30 -18:00 Ivan Soll (Wisconsin-Madison)
�Human Identity versus Human Uniqueness�

Friday July 1st


13:30 - 15:00 Alix Cohen (York):
�Kant on Human Nature�

15:00 -16:30 Lucas Thorpe (Boğazi�i):
�Animal Maxims: Kant and the Emergence of Humanity�

16:30 - 18:00 Alice Pinheiro Walla (Gottingen/St Andrews):
�Human Nature and the Right to Coerce in Kant�s Doctrine of Right�

Saturday July 2nd


10:00 Coffee

10:30 � 12:00 Yasemin Sari (Alberta)
�Hume, Humanity, and Utility�

12:00 � 13:30 Kreeta Ranki (Turku)
�The cognitive difference between humans and animals in
Kant and Hume�

Lunch


15:00 - 16:30 Natalie Nenadic (Kentucky)
�Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Human Nature�

16:30 � 18:00 Sandrine Berges (Bilkent):
�Wollstonecraft on Women as Citizens and Mothers:
Putting Nature Back in its Place.�

--
Dr. Lucas Thorpe
Philosophy Department
Bogazici University
Istanbul
http://www.phil.boun.edu.tr/lthorpe/

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