Events

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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