10th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, June 2-3 2017

10th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy takes place in Tartu on June 2-3 2017 in room Jakobi 2-336.

Friday, June 2nd
11.00 Welcome
11.05-12.05 Erik Åkerlund (Uppsala): "The End? Final Causes and Final Causation in some Baroque Scholastics"
12.15-13.15 Jan Forsman (Tampere): "Life and Skepticism for Descartes: The Meaning of the Moral Code in the Discourse"
15.00-16.00 Markku Roinila (Helsinki): "Cogito-argument and self-consciousness in Leibniz"
16.10-17.10 Artem Besedin (Moscow): "Leibniz over the precipice of Hobbes' compatibilism"

Saturday, June 3rd
11.00-12.00 Roomet Jakapi (Tartu): "Toland and Browne on the Nature of Faith"
12.10-13.10 Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney): "Berkeley's Strange Semi-Occasionalist Mystery"
15.00-16.00 Francesco Orsi (Tartu): "Hume's Guise of the Good"
16.10-17.10 Hemmo Laiho (Turku): "Kant and Multimodal Intuitions"

The worshop is preceeded by Marc Hight's public lecture on June 1st at 14:15 (Jakobi 2 - 336). Marc Hight was a visiting Fulbright Scholar in Tartu during the academic year 2007/2008.

"Better off as Judged by Themselves: A Critical Examination of Nudge Theory"
Libertarian Paternalism claims to differ from traditional paternalism by making people better off, ‘as judged by themselves.’ I argue that choice architects use ‘better off, as judged by themselves’ in a way that is systematically unclear and misleading. This unclarity furthermore makes recent debates about the efficacy and morality of employing nudges as public policy instruments in some cases difficult, if not meaningless. Ultimately the matter simply resolves into intuition pulling about values, making libertarian paternalism effectively equivalent to traditional paternalism.

Contact: roomet.jakapi@ut.ee