Events

Event Information:

• Wed

  18

  Oct

  2017

  Thu

  19

  Oct

  2017

  Leibniz and Hobbes: A Complex Relationship. Inspiration, Opposition, Incorporation

  Università di Milano, Crociera Alta di Giurisprudenza via Festa del Perdono, 7

  18 October
  10. 00 - Introduction
  Section I – Theology, Reason and Language
  10. 30 – 11.30 Gianni Paganini (Piemonte Orientale)
  Thomas Hobbes on possible worlds and theodicy
  11.30– 12.30 Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel (Universida Adlofo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile)
  Rhetoric, language and critical rationality in Hobbes

  Section II - Mathematics and the Royal Society
  14. 00 – 15.00 Douglas Jesseph (Florida)
  Hobbes and Leibniz on Indivisibles
  15. 00 - 16. 00 - Francesco Piro (Salerno)
  Hobbius Repuerascens. Leibniz on Hobbes' anti-Wallis late works
  16. 15 – 17. 15 Mattia Brancato (Milano)
  The Whole and the Part: Hobbes and Leibniz on Elements’ Common Notion 5
  17.15 - 18. 15 Philip Beeley (Oxford)
  Leibniz, Hobbes and the Royal Society

  19 October
  Section III - Physics
  9. 30 - 10. 30 – Federico Silvestri (Milano)
  The Early Leibniz and Mechanicism: The case of Optics
  10. 30 – 11. 30 Gianfranco Mormino (Milano)
  Hobbes’s Conatus and Aristotle’s Continuum: Two Sources of Leibniz’ Early Physics

  Section IV – Politics
  11. 30 – 12.30 Luca Basso (Padova)
  Leibniz and Hobbes on Natural Right

  Section V – Logic and Ontology
  14. 00 – 15. 00 Marine Picon (ENS Lyon)
  “Principia prima vera esse facimus”: Leibniz et la difficulté hobbesienne
  15. 00 – 16. 00 Osvaldo Ottaviani (SNS Pisa)
  Conditional Propositions and Exitential Import: Hobbes and the Young Leibniz
  16. 00 – 17.00 - Stefano Di Bella (Milano)
  Predication and Ontological Economy in Leibniz and Hobbes
  17. 00– 17. 30 - Conclusions