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All sessions will be held at the SFU-Vancouver at Harbour Centre
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Friday, 2 May 2008

9:15

Peter King (University of Toronto): “Dispassionate Passions” [abstract]
Commentator: Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder)

10:45

Dominik Perler (Humboldt Universität Berlin): “Why is the Sheep Afraid of the Wolf?” [abstract]
Commentator: Henrik Lagerlund (University of Western Ontario)

1:30

Dennis Des Chene (Washington University, St. Louis): “Using the Passions ” [abstract]
Commentator: Deborah Brown (University of Queensland)

3:00

Graduate Student Presentations with Katherina Paxman (University of Western Ontario) and Kate Waidler (Cornell)

4:30

Lilli Alanen (Uppsala University): “Spinoza on the passions and self-knowledge: The Case of Pride” [abstract]
Commentator: Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)

Saturday, 3 May 2008

9:30

Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University): “How we experience the world: passionate perception in Descartes and Spinoza” [abstract]
Commentator: Alison Simmons (Harvard University)

11:00

Paul Hoffman (University of Californa, Riverside): “Reasons, Causes, and Inclinations” [abstract]
Commentator: Lyle Crawford (Simon Fraser University)

2:15

Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto): “Adam Wodeham and his Critics on Emotions as Cognitions” [abstract]
Commentator: Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec à Montréal)

3:45

Simo Knuuttila (University of Helsinki): “Sixteenth-century Discussions of the Passions of the Will” [abstract]
Commentator: Ian Drummond (University of Toronto)