Dr Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh)
Friday, 10 September 2010
Location: CRASSH

Normativity of Nature: Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium

Programme

Location : CRASSH  Date : Friday 10 September 2010

Friday 10 September

 

11.00 - 11.30

Registration


11.30 - 13.00

Welcome and Introduction 

Dr Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh)
The normativity of nature in early-modern thought

Chair: Dr Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge)

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch 

14.00 - 14.45

Professor Christopher Gill (University of Exeter)
The Stoics on nature as a norm - more credible than it might seem 

Chair: Professor David Sedley (University of Cambridge)

14.45 - 15.00

Short Break

15.00 - 15.45

Professor Sarah Hutton (University of Aberystwyth)
Cambridge Platonism

Chair: Dr Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge) 

15.45 - 16.15

Tea/coffee Break

16.15 - 17.00

Professor Lena Halldenius (University of Malmö)
Drawing from the ‘original source’: Mary Wollstonecraft and the origin of morality 

Chair: Dr Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh)

17.00 

Reception at CRASSH

19.30

Dinner in local restaurant (all welcome)