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SUMMARY:Symposium ‘Exercises in Early Modern Thought: Philosophy\, Arts\
 , Science\, Theology\, Politics’
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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 19 November (MFO)\n13:30–14 :00 Welcome. Stéphane
  van Damme\, director of the MFO.\n\nSession I\n14:00–14:45 Susan James 
 (Birkbeck/Kings College London)\, Margaret Cavendish on Natural Philosophy
  and Poetry\n14:45–15 :30 Eric Sheng (Merton\, Oxford)\, Gassendi’s Ar
 guments for Hedonism\nChair: Mogens Lærke (CNRS-IHRIM/MFO\, Lyon/Oxford)\
 n15 :30–16:00 Coffee Break\n\nSession II\n\n16 :00–16:45 Philip Beeley
  (Linacre\, Oxford)\, John Pell and the Advancement of Mathematical Learni
 ng in Seventeenth-Century England\n16 :45–17:30 David Bartha (Birmingham
  Newman University)\, Animal Souls and Immortality in the Browne–Baxter 
 Debate\nChair: Louis Rouquayrol (CNRS-IHRIM\, Lyon)\n\nThursday 20 Novembe
 r (MFO)\nSession III\n9:00–9 :45 Odile Panetta (Aarhus University/Christ
  Church\, Oxford)\, Dutch Reformed Universities and the Debate over the Iu
 s circa sacra\n9:45–10 :30 Daniel Pedersen (University of Aberdeen)\, Se
 venteenth-Century Theologians Against the Clear and Distinct Knowledge of 
 God\nChair: Niall Dilucia (CNRS-MFO\, Oxford)\n10:30–11 :00 Coffee Break
 \n\nSession IV\n11:00–11:45 Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church\, Oxford)\, Fr
 eedom\, Miracles\, and Revelation: The Remonstrants and Spinoza\n11:45–1
 2:30 Olivier Yasar de France (Pembroke\, Oxford)\, Spinoza and the Rights 
 of Peace\nChair: Noel Malcolm (All Souls\, Oxford)\n12:30–14:00 Lunch\n\
 nSession V\n14:00–14:45 Eric Schliesser (University of Amsterdam/Tulane 
 University\, New Orleans)\, Huygens (and Newton\, of Course!): Some Awkwar
 d Observations about Causal Isolation and Simultaneity\n14:45–15:30 Yoav
  Beirach (Max Planck Institute\, Berlin)\, “Something of Imitation\, Tha
 t is Not Easily Removed”: Huygens and Leibniz on Time Measurement\nChair
 : Paul Lodge (Mansfield\, Oxford)\n17:00-19:00 Old Library\, All Souls. Al
 l conference participants are cordially invited to the book launch of Nuno
  Castel Branco’s The Traveling Anatomist. Nicolaus Steno and the Interse
 ction of Disciplines in Early Modern Science (University of Chicago Press\
 , 2025). With the participation of Daniel Garber (Princeton)\, Mogens Lær
 ke (CNRS\, Lyon/Oxford)\, and Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College\, Oxford). The
  event will be followed by a wine reception offered by All Souls College.\
 n\nFriday 21 November (Hovenden Room\, All Souls College)\nSession VI\n9 :
 00–9:45 Robert Iliffe (Linacre\, Oxford)\, TBA\n9:45–10:30 Delphine An
 toine-Mahut (IHRIM/Labex Comod\, ENS de Lyon)\, In the Brain of Christ. Fe
 nelon as a Reader of Malebranche\nChair: Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls\, O
 xford)\n10:30–11:00 Break\n\nSession VII\n11:00–11:45 Michael Jaworcyn
  (CNRS-MFO\, Oxford)\, The Finitude of Cartesian Minds\n11:45–12:30 Dani
 el Garber (Princeton University)\, We Desire to Form a Model of Human Natu
 re’: Spinoza on Becoming a More Perfect Self\nChair: Raphaële Garrod (M
 agdalen\, Oxford)\n\n \nSpeakers:\n Various Speakers
LOCATION:Maison Française d'Oxford & All Souls College
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