Early Modern Naturalisms: Spinozist and Humean

4 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 5 Sept 2026, 17:00 Europe/Budapest

Oktatási Központ/5. emelet-510. Dékáni tárgyaló (Oktatási Központ)

Tamás Demeter, David Harmon

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Friday 4 September

09:00 Welcome

1 Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd: Three "Essential" Routes to Naturalism

Speaker: Don Garrett (New York University)

2 Locke's Theological Naturalism

Speaker: Jennifer Smalligan Marusié (University af Edinburgh)

11:15 Break

3 Hume's Naturalism about Modality

Speaker: Daniel Dohrn (University of Milan)

4 Spinoza and Epistemology Naturalized

Speaker: Derek Wing Yii So (Yale University)

13:00 Lunch

5 Spinoza on God's Two Kinds of Necessary but Non-essential Properties

Speaker: Antonio Salgado Borge (University of Nottingham)

6 Barely by Their Natural Faculties

Avenues for a Spinozistic Version
öf the "Historical Method" in Light
of a Later Empiricist Tradition

Speaker: Máté Juhász (Eötvös Loránd University)

16:00 Break

7 "Humes 'Spinozist' Intervention in the Leibniz-Clarke Debate on the Nature of Space and Time

Speaker: Leonardo Vanni (University of Pisa and University of Groningen)

Saturday 5 September

09:00 Welcome

8 Naturalism in Spinoza and Cavendish

Speaker: Alison Peterman (University of Rochester)

9 Hume, Naturalism and Scepticism

Speaker: Peter Millican (Hertford College, Oxford University)

11:15 Break

10 Spinoza's Genealogical Naturalism

Speaker: Kenneth Novis (St Hugh's College, Oxford University)

11 Inclusive and Exclusive Strategtes of Naturalizations

Spinoza and Hume on Method Driven Ontologies

Speaker: Eda Hayrioğulları (Adnan Menderes University)

13:00 Lunch

12 Two Humean Naturalisms

Speaker: Jonny Cottrell (University of Toronto)

15:15 Break

13 The Subcle Authority of Prejudice in David Humes Science of Human Nature

Speaker: Sanchari Bhowmik (Universitat Autönoma de Barcelóna)

14 Spinoza's Aristotelian Naturalism about Judgement and Mental Causation

Speaker: Oliver Toth (Heidelberg University)