Spinoza Symposium
At the University of Washington, Seattle
 
SCHEDULE

Friday, March 2, Savery Hall, room 264
 
3:30pm                        Department Colloquium – Don Garrett (NYU)
                                   “Misrepresentation and Error in Spinoza's Philosophy of Mind”                               
5:30pm                       Department Reception
 
Saturday, March 3, Savery Hall, room 408

10-11:15am                Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)
“Responses to Vulnerability: Medicine, Politics and the Body in Descartes and Spinoza.”
 
11:30am-12:45pm      Michael Rosenthal (University of Washington)
                                   “Politics and Ethics in Spinoza:  The Problem of Normativity”                                 
1-2:30pm                    Lunch Break
 
2:30-3:45pm               Ericka Tucker (Cal Poly Pomona)
                                   "Spinoza's Absolute Democracy"
 
4:00-5:30pm               Ursula Renz (University of Klagenfurt)
                                   “Pantheism, Anti-Pantheism and the Status of Finite Subjects in Spinoza”