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It seems quite natural that our our cognitive states are caused by objects and people around us. But how are they caused? What kind of causality is at stake? And how is this type of causality related to other types? Early modern philosophers gave different answers to these questions, rejecting traditional Aristotelian answers and creating new ones. The conference examines their answers and pays particular attention to the way they integrated their accounts of causation and cognition into all-embracing metaphysical models. It focuses on a large number of authors, ranging from Suárez to Reid, and looks both at classical thinkers (e.g. Descartes, Leibniz, Hume) and at neglected philosophers (e.g. Cavendish, Sergeant). It analyzes their background theories about the relationship between mind, matter and God, thus building a bridge from philosophy to early modern science and theology.

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Program

31.5.2018
09:15 - 09:45
Causation and Cognition - A Philosophical Puzzle (Introduction)
Sebastian Bender
Dominik Perler
09:45 - 11:00
Suárez on Cognition and Occasional Causation
Dominik Perler
11:00 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 12:30
Berkeley on Causation, Cognition, and Volition
Sebastian Bender
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:15
Causation and Cognition: La Forge and Cordemoy
Tad Schmaltz
15:15 - 15:30
Break
15:30 - 16:45
Consciousness, Unconsciousness and Final Causality: Cudworth contra Descartes
Sarah Hutton
16:45 - 17:00
Break
17:00 - 18:15
Malebranche on Human and Divine Cognition
Stephan Schmid
19:30 - 21:00
Dinner
1.6.2018
09:15 - 10:30
“For motion produceth nothing but motion” – The Mechanical Mind in Hobbes and Spinoza
Daniel Garber
Martine Pécharman
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 12:00
The Many Faces of Spinoza's Causal Axiom
Martin Lin
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:45
Embodied Cognition without Causal Interaction in Leibniz
Julia Jorati
14:45 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 16:15
Locke on Causation and Cognition
Jennifer Marusic
16:15 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 17:45
John Sergeant on the Formal Cause of Cognition
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
19:30 - 21:00
Dinner
2.6.2018
09:15 - 10:30
Reason, as a Kind of Cause
Peter Kail
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 12:00
Reid on Causation and Intentionality
James Van Cleve
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch