talk given by Professor Sarah Hutton at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, 25th October 2013:
‘A Cambridge Enlightenment? The Cambridge Platonists Revisited.’
Friday 25th October 5.30-6.30pm
Little Hall, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
Sarah Hutton has recently updated the article ‘The Cambridge Platonists’ on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website. Changes will take effect soon.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cambridge-platonists/
http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=9292
Robert Pasnau has carried out important recent work on the metaphysics of More and Conway. This work is an invaluable contribution to analysis of Cambridge Platonist positions.
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/metaphysical-themes-1274-1671-9780199674480;jsessionid=8F4C097E33A0F03EEFE824D630CDB58B?cc=gb&lang=en&
See also Pasnau’s important article “Mind and Extension (Descartes, Hobbes, More),” in H. Lagerlund and O. Pluta (eds.) Forming the Mind (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), available at his homepage: http://spot.colorado.edu/~pasnau/inprint/
http://www.springer.com/philosophy/philosophical+traditions/book/978-94-007-3987-1