Epicurus in the Enligtenment: Mode d'emploi

Epicurus in the Enlightenment: Mode d'emploi

17 June 2006
Magdalen College, Oxford

8:45

Elodie Argaud (Jean Monnet University, St Etienne): Pierre Bayle and Epicurus (in French)

Matthew Niblett (Keble College, Oxford): Men, Morals and Matter: Epicurus and Materialist Thought in England from Bolingbroke to Priestley

Leonhard Hermann (University of Leipzig): Epicurus versus Spinoza in Wilhelm Heinse's Thought

10:20 Coffee

10:45

Hans W. Blom (Erasmus University, Rotterdam): The Epicurean Motif in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Political Thought

Thomas Ahnert (University of Edinburgh): Epicureanism and the Transformation of Natural Law in the Early German Enlightenment

Andrew Kahn (St Edmund Hall, Oxford): Epicureanism in Russia

12.45 Lunch

14:00

Natania Meeker (University of Southern California, Los Angeles): Diderot and the Epicurean Infant

Charles T. Wolfe (Boston University): La Mettrie's Medicalization of Morals

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Concluding discussion chaired by John Robertson (St Hugh's College, Oxford)

19:00 Dinner at Carluccio's, Oxford Castle

Conference fee: £12 (free for students)

If interested in attending the colloquium, please inform both organizers by 9 June 2006:

Neven Leddy
neven.leddy@history.ox.ac.uk

Avi Lifschitz
avi.lifschitz@history.ox.ac.uk


Generously supported by the Faculty of History at Oxford, the Royal Historical Society, and the Voltaire Foundation