Quest of the Heart: an International Conference on Affective Knowledge
2-3 June 2013. The conference will be held in room B18 (basement) of Birkbeck College, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington square). Entrance is free and all are welcome. Please contact Minna Koivuniemi for more information.
Speakers: Tim Riggs, “Proclus on demonic mediation”; Stephen Clucas, “Affective states in the angelic conversations of John Dee”; James Lancaster, “Francis Bacon: between mythos and cosmos”; Anna Corrias, “Marsilio Ficino on sense experience outside the body”; Minna Koivuniemi, “Imagination, imitation and magical mirrors in the early modern period”; Alexander Douglas, “Collingwood’s reading of Spinoza’s psychology”; Simo Knuuttila, “Christian Thomasius on Emotions”; Michael Moriarty, “Pascal: “Not only by reason, but also by the heart”; and John Cottingham, “Help or hindrance? Descartes on the role of the passions in the good life”.
