November 19
9:45-10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:00 Vivien Kurpiela (University of Bonn): Spinoza’s Modal Integration Challenge
11:00-12:00 David Wörner (University of Stuttgart): Nominal Essence and the Question of Realism
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Renata Ramos (Fluminense Federal University): Apperception or Reflection? Consciousness and the Monadic Hierarchy in Leibniz
14:30-15:30 Daniel Bella (University of Hamburg): Common Properties and Dispositions in Spinoza’s Metaphysics
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder): Could Early Modern Philosophy Have Begun with Nicholas of Autrecourt, circa 1330?
18:30 Dinner
November 20
9:00-10:00 Alexandra Abranches (University of Minho – Braga): Astell and Immanent Critique
10:00-11:00 Matthew Leisinger (York University): Cudworth on Indifference
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Louis Pijaudier-Cabot (University of Milan): Presence and Eucharist in Leibniz
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Guido Seywald (University of Vienna): George Berkeley’s Master Argument and its Relation to his Critique of Abstract Ideas
15:00-16:00 Pia Schneider (UC Berkeley): Grasping Incongruence: Kant’s Argument in §13 of the Prolegomena
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Ursula Renz (University of Graz): Perspective-Taking as a Norm of Doxastic Rationality: What’s the Point of Kant’s Second Maxim?
19:00 Dinner
When: November 19–20, 2026
Where: LMU Munich, Ludwigstr. 28, room 115 (Freskensaal)
Organization: Sebastian Bender
This one-day workshop brings together scholars of early modern philosophy and German idealism to comment on and discuss topics related to Jim Kreines's new book ‘Hegel and Spinoza’ (Cambridge University Press 2026). The book concerns Hegel’s engagement with Spinoza’s metaphysics, including Hegel’s interpretation of Spinoza’s monism, his criticism that Spinoza’s philosophy must eliminate all finitude and determinacy, and the way in which understanding this engagement can help us understand Hegel’s Logic.
Program
10:00–10:05 Welcome, Sebastian Bender & Andrew Stephenson, LMU
10:05–10:30 Introduction, Jim Kreines, Claremont McKenna
10:30-12:00 First Session, Karolina Hübner, UCLA
12:00–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:00 Second Session, Ulrich Schlösser, Tübingen
15:00–15:30 Coffee
15:30–17:00 Third Session, Andreas Schmidt, Jena