====================== HES POSTING ==================== CALL FOR PAPERS THE MIDWEST SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY and CENTRE D'ETUDES CARTESIENNES "Passions of the Soul, Passions of the Body" The Midwest Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy is an informal group, formed to foster interaction among scholars of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy. This is a call for papers for our next meeting, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 1-3, 1998, at the Humanities Institute of the University of Chicago. We will then be meeting jointly with the Centre d'Etudes Cartesiennes (Universite de Paris IV). At least a portion of the meeting will be devoted to the general theme: "Passions of the Soul, Passions of the Body." However, papers are not limited to that topic, and submissions are invited for papers on any aspect of the philosophy of the early modern period (roughly seventeenth and eighteenth centuries). Please submit abstracts of maximum one page by February 15, 1998 to: Steven Nadler Department of Philosophy 5185 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, Wisconsin 53706 [log in to unmask] Email submissions are encouraged. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]