Rethinking Enlightenment: the Reception of John Locke in Germany
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Hope Park Square, University of Edinburgh
4 – 5 October 2024
Friday, 4 October
9.30 – 10.00 am: Coffee/tea and biscuits
10.00 am – 11.30 am
Thomas Ahnert: ‘Institutional contexts of Locke’s reception: universities, academies, and learned societies’
Michael Jaworzyn: ‘Logic and metaphysics’
11.30 – 11.45 am: Break
11.45 am – 12.30 pm
Konstantin Pollok: ‘Locke as a key source of inspiration and dissent for Kant’
12.30 – 1.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Michael Walschots: ‘Locke and Popular Philosophy: Feder, Tittel, and the Rejection of a priori Cognition’
Lore Knapp: ‘Locke’s Essay and German Aesthetics (1769–1778). Theories of Sensual Perception, Association and Physiology’
3.00 – 3.30 pm: Coffee/tea and biscuits
3.30 – 4.15 pm
Thomas Wallnig: ‘Misplaced Ideas? John Locke in Habsburg Central Europe’
4.15 – 5.00: Concluding discussion
6.30 pm: Dinner
Saturday, 5 October
9.30 am – 11.00 am
Jennifer Marušić: ‘Locke and Leibniz’
Stefan Klingner: ‘Reasonableness, tolerance and their limits. On the reception of Locke’s rational theology in the German Enlightenment’
11.00 – 11.15: Coffee/tea
11.15 am – 12.00 pm
Anne Pollok: ‘Mendelssohn and the hidden Locke’ (online)
12.00 – 12.45 pm: Website/online exhibition discussion
12.45 pm – 1.45 pm: Lunch
1.45 pm – 3.00 pm: Discussion of edited volumes
