悉尼大学知识史网络研讨会：从古代到近代早期的认知德性
The desire to satisfy our curiosity, engage in inquiry and acquire understanding are remarkable features of a human life. An individual in pursuit of moral and epistemic (intellectual) excellence seeks the truth above all else and avoids error at all costs. Such an individual is obliged to cultivate character traits and skills that help them to achieve the goal of acquiring knowledge and avoiding errors in their judgement and reasoning. What these character traits were and how they participated in the acquisition of knowledge was a widely discussed topic in early modern philosophy. Alongside these discussions, philosophers asked whether intellectual excellence was a reasonable goal for a postlapsarian individual and prescribed practices as wide-ranging as logic, mathematics, natural history, philosophy and rhetoric for their role in cultivating epistemic virtues. This workshop brings together historians of ancient and early modern philosophy to examine the role of virtue in the acquisition of epistemic goods.
「Where:」 This workshop will take place in person in Room N494, Quadrangle A14 and online via Zoom.
「Keynote speakers」
Jacqueline Broad (Monash University) Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong)
Registration and Attendance
Attendance is free and open to anyone interested in the topics of the workshop. COVID-19 restrictions mean numbers allowed in Room N494 are limited. Registration is essential.
「To register for on campus attendance or zoom link, please click on https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/workshop-on-epistemic-virtue-from-the-ancient-to-early-modern-period-tickets-315095337637」
「Full Program」
DAY ONE – 20th April 2022
Note: all times displayed are in AEST
9:00 – 9:15 Introductory Remarks | Laura Kotevska and Elena Gordon
9:15 – 10:15 Keynote: Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong) | Three Ghosts of Virtue Epistemology – Classical, Early Modern, Contemporary
「Theme I: Passions and Affects」
10:15 – 11:00 Anthony Hooper (University of Wollongong) | Plato & Chill? Loving Well to Think Well in the Symposium
11:00 – 11.30 Morning Tea
11:30 – 12.15 Luke Ciancarelli (Harvard University) | Cartesian Virtue and the Remedy for the Passions
12:15 – 1:00 Julie Klein (Villanova University) | Ideas and Affects: Spinoza on Education
1:00 – 2:15 Lunch
2:15 – 3:00 Francessca Di Poppa (Texas Tech University) | Shaftsbury as Virtue Epistemologist
3:00 – 3:45 Elena Gordon (University of Sydney) | Virtuous Language and Conceptual Correctness in Hume
3.45 – 4:15 Afternoon Tea
4:15 – 5:00 Melissa Merritt (University of New South Wales) | Kant’s Eupathic Account of Admiration
「Theme II: Language and Persuasion」
5:00 – 5.45 Anik Waldow & Laura Kotevska (University of Sydney) | The Art of Thinking as a Communicative Practice: Affect and Association in the Port-Royal Logic
DAY TWO – April 21st 2022
9:00 – 9:45 Katarina Peixoto (Paderborn University) | Judgement as Virtue in the Port-Royal Logic
9:45 – 10:30 Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio (University of Toronto) | A virtuous way of doing philosophy: Scepticism and the moderation of curiosity in Hume’s philosophical method
10:30 – 11.00 Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote: Jacqueline Broad (Monash University) | Mary Astell on Epistemic Virtue and Women’s Education: An Illusory Feminism?
「Theme III: Moral and Epistemic Virtue」
12:00 – 12:45 David Bronstein (University of Notre Dame – Sydney) | Aristotle on Moral and Intellectual Virtue
12:45 – 2 Lunch
2:00 – 2.45– Ian Robertson (University of Wollongong) | Virtue beyond competence.
2.45 – 3.30 Samuel Kaldas (Sydney College of Divinity) | Remembering What Virtue Tastes Like: John Smith’s Sentimentalist Refitting of Meno’s Paradox
3.30 – 4 Afternoon Tea
「Theme IV: Character and Vice」
4:00 – 4.45 Jennifer Mensch (Western Sydney University) | Epistemic Vice: On the Use and Abuse of Travel Reports by Kant and his German Contemporaries
4:45 – 5:00 Concluding Remarks | Laura Kotevska and Elena Gordon
「Further Inquiries」
Please direct any questions about this call to laura.kotevska@sydney.edu.au
「Organizers」
Laura Kotevska – University of Sydney Anik Waldow – University of Sydney Elena Gordon – University of Sydney
「Philosophy Social Media」
This workshop is sponsored by the Sydney Intellectual History Network.
Image credit: Large Triumphal Carriage, Albrecht Dürer, 1523.