Van 14 t/m 16 oktober 2010 is er in München een driedaagse conferentie (Tagung) over: Passions and the Limits of Pure Inquiry II: The Seventeenth Century.
Dr. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (1967) en Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft Kathrin Schlierkamp M.A. van het Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance, een instituut van de Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft van de Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, zijn de organisatoren.
"The aim of this conference is to revaluate the contributions of seventeenth century philosopher to the understanding of the emotional side of the mind by examining the relationship and the boundaries between the passions and reason and by focusing on the affective elements in cognition. Which models of mind and emotions were developed in this period? How did these models differ from previous ones? Did the new ones manage to overcome the epistemological crises inherited by the Renaissance, when the power of reason over the passions was disputed?"