Conference: The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez

From:Fr 10-04-2026Until:Su 12-04-2026Where:Faculty of Philosophy, room Gamma

9:30: Coffee and welcome

10-11:15 Tad Schmaltz (University of Michigan)

Suárez on Universals, Formal Unity, and Nominalism

11:30- 12:45 Helen Hattab (University of Houston)

The Problem of Individuation: Suarez’s Solution and Calvinist Scholasticism

12:45-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3:30 Han Thomas Adriaenssen (University of Groningen)

TBA

3:45-5:00 Erik Åkerlund (Stockholm University)

Closing the Causal Gap: Suárez on Substantial Generation

5:15-6:30 Raimundo Cox (University of Pittsburgh)

Suárez and the Unity of Cause

10:00-11:15 Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto)

Suárez’s theory of distinctions and its aftermath in Descartes and Leibniz

11:30-12:45 Makke Marij Bakker (University of Groningen)

Suárez versus Fonseca on Essence and Existence

12:45-2:15 lunch

2:15-3:30 Jordan Lavender (Texas A&M University)

Seventeenth-Century Theories of Sense Perception: From Suárez to Descartes

3:45-5:00 Jean-Pascal Anfray (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Suarez on Successive Beings

5:15-6:30 César Reigosa Soler (University of Groningen)

Future Truths and Indifference

10-11:15 Stephan Schmid (University of Hamburg)

Suárez’s Account of Practical Reasons

11:30-12:45 Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto)

Suárez on Human Agency and Control

For further information, please contact the organizers:

Han Thomas Adriaenssen (h.t.adriaenssen@rug.nl)

Marleen Rozemond (marleen.rozemond@utoronto.ca)

For attendance, please register by contacting Han Thomas Adriaenssen. Attendance is free of charge.

Funding from the University of Groningen and the University of Toronto

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