International Conference: The Concept of Actual Infinity. Spinoza, before and beyond

International Conference

“The Concept of Actual Infinity. Spinoza, before and beyond”

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University of Bologna, ICSS Sive Natura,

Johns Hopkins University, ERC Philiumm, SPHERE

The conference is part of the annual programme of the HPM and CHSPAM (SPHERE) seminars.

ORGANIZERS:

Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University), David Rabouin (CNRS, ERC Philiumm),

Lorenzo Vinciguerra (University of Bologna, Sive Natura ICSS), Matteo Camerini (Ph.D. SPHERE, UniBo, Sive Natura ICSS)

DATES:

7- 8 April 2025, Paris

PARTICIPANTS:

Jean-Pascal Anfray, Paolo Bussotti, Joao Cortese, Filippo Costantini, Antonella Del Prete,

Hao Dong, José Ferreirós, Warren Zev Harvey, Juliette Kennedy, Paolo Mancosu, Connor Morrison, Ohad Nachtomy, Anat Schechtman, Claire Schwartz, Hourya Sinaceur

PARIS

7-8 APRIL 2025

7 April 2025

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Amphithéâtre Turing, bâtiment Sophie Germain, Pl. Aurélie Nemours, 75013 Paris

9.30 – 9.45

Welcome and Institutional Greetings

9.45 – 10.45

Hourya Sinaceur (CNRS)

Bolzano’s concept of actual infinite

- COFFEE BREAK –

11.00 – 12.00

José Ferreirós (Universidad de Sevilla)

Prelude to Cantor: Riemann, Dedekind and actual infinity

LUNCH

14.00 – 15.00

Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki)

Set theory as a theory of the infinite

- COFFEE BREAK –

15.15 – 16.15

Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)

How many points are in a line segment? From Grosseteste to numerosities.

16.15 – 17.15

Warren Zev Harvey (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Actual Infinity in the Philosophy of Hasdai Crescas

DINNER

8 April 2025

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Salle Valentin, Batiment Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris

9.30 – 10.30

João Cortese (University of São Paulo)

Pascal and Actual Infinity

10.30 – 11.30

Connor Morrison (Johns Hopkins University)

Newtonian Moral Infinity

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11.45 – 12.45

Jean-Pascal Anfray (ENS)

The concept of indefinite in Descartes

LUNCH

14.30 – 15.30

Claire Schwartz (Université Paris Nanterre)

Malebranche and the names of actual infinity

- COFFEE BREAK –

15.45 – 16.45

Hao Dong (Johns Hopkins University) [on Zoom]

Infinity and Contingency in Leibniz and Spinoza

16.45 – 17.45

Filippo Costantini (CNRS, ERC Philiumm)

Leibniz on infinite regresses

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