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Sapientia Lecture Series

LECTURE WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin-Madison). "Three Infinities in Early Modern Philosophy” Free & open to all. Reception follows.

Friday, February 10, 2017
3:30pm – 5:00pm
103 Thornton Hall
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Anat Schechtman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy and mathematics in the early modern period. She is currently working on various notions of infinity in the seventeenth century in Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz, and on the metaphysics of substance in Descartes and Spinoza. Her paper "Descartes' Argument for the Existence of the Idea of an Infinite Being" recently appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and "Substance and Independence in Descartes" appeared in the Philosophical Review. In 2016-2017 she is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard University.

The Sapientia Lecture Series is funded by The Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy.

 

For more information, contact:
Marcia Welsh
marcia.welsh@dartmouth.edu
(603) 646-3738
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