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Descartes and Contemporary Philosophy

The Society for the Advancement of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy of the Centre for Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb are organizing an international philosophical conference Descartes and Contemporary Philosophy. The conference is intended to gather philosophers and other related scholars whose papers deal with various aspects of Descartes’ philosophical work, primarily his metaphysics and philosophy of mind. However, we welcome any paper on Descartes’ influence on the later development of philosophy as well as on contemporary philosophical debates, not only within the field of metaphysics and philosophy of mind, but also in other philosophical disciplines such as epistemology, ethics, philosophy of emotions and others.

Samobor, Croatia

Hotel ‘Lavica’ Conference Hall

20^th-23^th May 2007

Sunday, 20 May

From 12.00 Arrival of participants. Accommodation at "Lavica" Hotel (5 F. Livadic St.)

Monday, 21 May

9.30 Opening

9.45 Alan Gabbey (Columbia University, New York, USA)

The Cartesian Forces of Body and Mind

10.30 Boris Hennig (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

The Immaterial Substance

Break

11.45 Chikara Sasaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Descartes, Husserl, and the Historical Philosophy of Mathematics

12.30 Olivia Chavalier (University Paris-X, Nanterre, France)

The Cartesian Notion(s) of Infinity as Anticipations of Its Contemporary Understanding: Philosophy and Mathematics

Lunch break

16.00 Petr Glombicek (Institute of Philosophy, Praha, Czech Republic)

Descartes’ Concept of Common Sense

16.45 Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada)

"The Thought Hidden in the Body": Descartes on Language and Animals

Tuesday, 22 May

9.30 Josip Talanga (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia)

Imagination in Early Modern Philosophy

10.15 Daniel Muñoz-Hutchinson (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

Descartes and the Cartesian Model of Introspection

Break

11.30 Tom Vinci (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)

Descartes and Contemporary Epistemology

12.15 Mladen Domazet (Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia)

Descartes in Entanglement

13.00 Lunch break

15.00 Excursion to Zagreb

Wednesday, 23 May

9.30 Michael V. Griffin (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

Knowledge and the Cartesian Circle

10.15 Carole Talon-Hugon (University of Nice, France)

"Treating passions as a physician": novelty, ambiguity, topicality of Descartes' Traite des passions

Break

11.30 Gabor Ronai (University of Miskolc, Hungary)

Anti-Cartesian first person authority. Is it possible from the third person point of view?

12.15 Ksenija Puškarić (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

The argument from religious experience

Lunch break

15.00 Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University – Newark, USA)

Descartes on Qualia

15.45 Judit Szalai (Institute for Philosophical Research, Budapest, Hungary)

Are there psychophysical laws in Descartes

Thursday, 24 May

Departure of participants

How to get to Samobor

The participants who arrive in Zagreb by plane can take the bus from the airport to the Zagreb central bus station (the cost of the ticket is 25 kunas or 3 euros). The participants who arrive in Zagreb by train can take a tram from the railway station to the central bus station (trams 2 and 6) or they can take a taxi (ca 40 kunas or 5 euros). From the central bus station, the buses to Samobor leave every half an hour until 23.40h. The ride takes ca 20 minutes, and the cost of the ticket is 30 kunas or ca 3, 50 euros. There is a five-minute walk from the Samobor bus station to the Lavica Hotel.