Workshop, July 25 and 26 2024

We are pleased to announce an upcoming online workshop on “Cavendish: Mind, Consciousness and Perception,” which will be held on Zoom on 25 and 26 July, 2024. The workshop is organized by Pedro Pricladnitzky and Aaron Wells.

The tentative schedule is as follows:

July 25 (all times CET)

15:00–15:45 Marcy Lascano (University of Kansas), “Cavendish on Memory: There is Always Something There to Remind Me” (invited talk)

15:45–16:30 Kevin Lower (Villanova University), “Margaret Cavendish’s Arithmetic of the Passions”

16:30–16:45 Break

16:45–17:30 Milena Rodrigues (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), “The role of Contemplation in Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophy of Nature and whether it is an active or passive capacity of the human intellect”

17:30–18:15 Colin Chamberlain (University College London), “Seeing Red, Being Red: Cavendish on Patterning Colour” (invited talk)

July 26

15:00–15:45 Jonathan Shaheen (Uppsala University), “Panpsychist versus Reductive Identity Theories” (invited talk)

15:45–16:30 Olivia Branscum (University of Oklahoma), “Defending Cavendishian Panpsychism: Self-Knowledge as Self-Feeling”

16:30–16:45 Break

16:45–17:30 Jan Forsman (University of Iowa), “Margaret Cavendish and Skepticism”

17:30 – 18:15 Alison Peterman (University of Rochester), “Cavendish against panpsychism” (invited talk)

If you would like to attend the workshop, please contact Aaron Wells (wells[at]mail.uni-paderborn.de) and we will send a Zoom link shortly beforehand.