[CS] March 7 "Spinoza's God (or Nature)" by Steven Nadler, Ph.D.; 5:30 in FPH Main Lecture Hall. Hosted by The Hampshire College lecture series on Science & Religion
Paula Harmon
pharmon at hampshire.edu
Mon Mar 4 08:49:16 EST 2013
The Hampshire College lecture series on Science & Religion
Title of talk: "Spinoza's God (or Nature)"
Speaker: Dr. Steven Nadler
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/smnadler/web/New_Website/Index.html
Thursday, March 7 at 5:30 in Main Lecture Hall
Abstract:
In 1656, the young Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated from the Amsterdam
Portuguese-Jewish community with extreme prejudice; by the end of his
short life he was regarded as one of the most radical and dangerous
thinkers of his time. Among his alleged "abominable heresies" was,
according to one contemporary report, the belief that "God exists only
philosophically." In this lecture, we will examine Spinoza's conception
of God, whereby God is identified with Nature, and address the question
of whether he is, as is so often claimed, a "God intoxicated" pantheist
or a devious atheist, as well as the implications of this for his views
on religion.
Speaker bio:
Professor Nadler is William H. Hay Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on philosophy in
the seventeenth century, particularly issues in metaphysics and
epistemology, as well as conceptions of reason and happiness. He has
written extensively on Descartes and Cartesianism, Spinoza, and Leibniz.
He also works on medieval and early modern Jewish philosophy. His two
most recent books are a collection of his papers, /Occasionalism:
Causation Among the Cartesians/ (Oxford, 2011); and /A Book Forged in
Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age/
(Princeton, 2011). His new book, /The Philosopher, the Priest, and the
Painter: A Portrait of Descartes/, will be published by Princeton in
spring 2013. He is currently the editor of the /Journal of the History
of Philosophy/.
Thursday, March 7^th at 5:30pm in FPH Main Lecture Hall
For more information, please visit http://scienceandreligion.hampshire.edu
The lecture hall is accessible. If you need special accommodations
please contact Hampshire College's Disability Services Office at
413.559.5423, at least one week prior to the event.
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Hampshire College
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