Nog niet op de website van de RijksUniversiteit Groningen, maar al wel aangekondigd op de website van de OZSW, de Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool Wijsbegeerte, staat dat op 6 september 2014 door de Filosofiefaculteit van de Universiteit van Groningen een Workshop zal worden georganiseerd over Spinoza and Relational Autonomy.
Sprekers zullen zijn: Beth Lord, Matt Kisner, Keith Green en Ursula Renz. Martin Lenz en Andrea Sangiacomo (van de RUG) en Heidi Ravven (Hamilton College) fungeren als eerste discussiant.
Deelname is vrij, maar registratie gewenst. Contactpersoon is Andrea Sangiacomo. [Cf.]
In de thema-omschrijving is iets te bespeuren van het Groningse Spinoza-project: "Naturalisme én teleologie in Spinoza’s filosofie."
"Spinoza’s philosophy has been both celebrated and reviled for its strict commitment to a kind of naturalism, according to which all aspects of human beings are to be understood in fundamentally the same way that we understand any other natural phenomena. Spinoza takes this to imply, most controversially, that our volitions are determined by prior causes, which leads him to deny that humans possess free will in the sense of a spontaneous power for determining one’s own actions in isolation from external things. Although one might take this to imply that Spinoza rules out the possibility of freedom and autonomy, Spinoza insists on the possibility and importance of freedom, a form of self-determination, which philosophers today would describe as autonomy. This workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in the nature of Spinoza’s relational conception of autonomy and its relevance to present day theorizing about relational autonomy."
Aanvulling 26 mei 2014
Er heeft wel op 12 mei een berichtje op facebook gestaan:
Sept 6: Early Modern Philosophy Workshop on #Spinoza and Relational Autonomy
Save the date: September 6 (Saturday): Workshop on Spinoza and Relational Autonomy at the University of Groningen. The program is coming soon!! [Cf.]
