Participation is free, but please register by writing to manuel.fasko@unibas.ch
Schedule
24.3.25
09:00
Opening and Introduction (Markus Wild, Basel)
09:15-10:00
Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen): In What Sense is a Rational Power a Power? Metaphysics Θ 2 and 5 on Powers and Change.
10:00-10:45
Ulrich Rudolph (Zürich): Avicenna’s Theory of Intellect in Other Contexts: Case Studies from Islamic Mysticism and Islamic Jurisprudence
11:00-11:45
Can Laurens Löwe (St. Louis): Aquinas on the Limits of the Will
11:45-12:30
Martin Klein (Würzburg): Memory and Mental Reflection
13:30-14:15
Paolo Rubini (BBAW Berlin): Body-Dependence of the Human Mind in Jacopo Zabarella
14:15-15:30
Stephan Schmid (Hamburg): Suárez on Practical Reasons
15:45-16:30
Tad Schmaltz (Michigan): Suárez and De Auxiliis: Middle Knowledge, Supercomprehension, Congruism
16:30-17:15
Anik Waldow (Sydney): Self-Enactment in the Face of Doubt: Montaigne’s Scepticism Reconsidered
18:15-19:45
Dominik Perler (HU Berlin): Cognitive and Conative Powers – an Opposition? Reflections on Aristotelians and their Critics
25.3.25
09:00-09:45
Han Thomas Adriaenssen (Groningen): Early Modern Jesuits on Choosing from among Equals: From Toledo to Compton
09:45-10:30
Ariane Schneck (Bielefeld): Free Will in Descartes
10:45-11:30
Ursula Renz (Graz): The Will to Know or the Passion of Philosophy. Descartes on an Acquired Capacity
11:30-12:15
Sebastian Bender (Göttingen): No Cognition, No Power. Reevaluating the ‘No Knowledge Argument’ in Early Modern Occasionalism
13:15-14:00
Jennifer Marušić (Edinburgh): Cavendish on Freedom
14:00-14:45
Dan Garber (Princeton): ‘We Desire to Form an Idea of Man…’: Reason, Volition, and the Ethical Life in Spinoza
15:15-16:00
Martin Lenz (Hagen): What is Rationalistic Therapy? Some Notes on Spinoza
16:00-16:45
Michael Della Rocca (Yale): Clear-eyed Akrasia: Spinoza, Leibniz, and Contemporary Perspectives
16:45-17:30
Sonja Schierbaum (Würzburg): Crusius on Desire and Rational Agency
26.3.25
09:00-09:45
Manuel Fasko (Basel): Shepherd on Free Will
09:45-10:30
Johannes Haag (Potsdam): Imagination Intellectualized – Kant’s Re-Invention of the Power of Imagination
10:45-11:30
Rebekka Hufendiek (Ulm): Is Scientific Ideology a Form of Motivated Cognition?
11:30-12:15
Romy Jaster (HU Berlin): Bound by One’s Wishes? Conative Abilities and Free Will
12:15-13:00
Sanja Dembić (HU Berlin): Muscle Up: Can Willpower Be Depleted?
14:00-14:45
Barbara Vetter (FU Berlin): Dormitive Virtues, Explanatory Virtues, and the Epistemology of Powers
14:45-15:30
Emil Angehrn (Basel): Self-Understanding Between Knowledge and Becoming Oneself