Conference Archives
Sensibility in the Early Modern Era
August 28, 2012 – August 29, 2012
Location: Boardroom, Darlington Centre, City Road (entrance is facing the turnoff to Carillon Ave), University of Sydney
Organisers: Stephen Gaukroger and Anik Waldow
Registration: Registration is free, and is just to give us an idea of numbers for catering purposes. Please indicate your intention to attend by registering online on the "Registration" page or by emailing Annette Pierdziwol: annette.pierdziwol@sydney.edu.au
Workshop on Representation and Sensibility
Boardroom (next to Darlington Centre, City Road)
September 19, 2011 – September 20, 2011
Two day workshop on Representation and Sensibility
This workshop marks the beginning of a series of conferences and events exploring two core problems in early-modern philosophy: representation and sensibility. The first is an issue in 16th- and 17th-century thought, as knowledge comes to be construed in terms of representations of the world. Sensibility turns on the question of the standing of reason in Enlightenment thought in the mid-eighteenth century, in particular the issue of what role sensibility plays in our conception of the world, tying together reflections on physiological sensitivity, psychological/epistemological sensation, and aesthetic/moral sentiments. In bringing these two issues together the workshop aims to shed new light on our thinking of the origins of science, religion, morality, and norms of behaviour more generally.