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