Spring 2022 Workshop
"Expanding the Early Modern Canon"
May 17-19, 2022
Fordham University
"Expanding the Early Modern Canon"
May 17-19, 2022
Fordham University
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10th Annual Workshop - December 4-6, 2020
Hosted online by Fordham University (over Zoom)
Day 1 - December 4
Session 1 - Chair: Justin Smith (Université Paris Diderot–Paris VII)
11:00-11:45 – Barnaby Hutchins (Ghent University): “Cavendish on the Social Dynamics of Physics”
12:00-12:45 – Colin Chamberlain (Temple University): “What is it Like to be a Material Thing? Cavendish’s Argument for Materialism”
Session 2 - Chair: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)
2:00-3:00 – Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto) and Alison Simmons (Harvard University): “It’s All Alive! Natural Order and Human Beings in Cavendish and Conway
Day 2 - December 5
Session 1 - Chair: Enrique Chavez-Arvizo (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
9:00-9:45 – Ariane Schneck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/ Universität Bielefeld): “Autonomy and Self-Love in Descartes”
10:00-10:45 – Alexandra Chadwick (University of Leiden/University of Jyväskylä): “‘Pity the Hammer’? Hobbes on Sense and Pansensism”
Session 2 - Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
12:00-12:45 – Ohad Nachtomy (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology): “Spinoza on the Capacities of the Body and the Wonders of the Mind”
1:00-1:45 – Karolina Hübner (Cornell University): “Cavendish and Spinoza on Dividing Minds”
Session 3 - Chair: Kathryn Tabb (Bard College)
2:00-3:00 – Don Garrett (NYU): “Panpsychism, Spinoza’s Way”
Day 3 - December 6
Session 1 - Chair: Dan Cook (CUNY/Brooklyn College)
11:00-11:45 – Graham Clay (University of Notre Dame) and Michael Rauschenbach (Washington University, St. Louis): “The Burden of Unity: Berkeley between Hume and Spinoza”
12:00-12:45 – Taro Okamura (University of Alberta): “Hume’s Passion-Based Account of Agency”
1:00-1:45 – Pirachula Chulanon (University of Chicago): “Kant on the Analogy between Mind and Matter"
Day 1 - December 4
Session 1 - Chair: Justin Smith (Université Paris Diderot–Paris VII)
11:00-11:45 – Barnaby Hutchins (Ghent University): “Cavendish on the Social Dynamics of Physics”
12:00-12:45 – Colin Chamberlain (Temple University): “What is it Like to be a Material Thing? Cavendish’s Argument for Materialism”
Session 2 - Chair: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)
2:00-3:00 – Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto) and Alison Simmons (Harvard University): “It’s All Alive! Natural Order and Human Beings in Cavendish and Conway
Day 2 - December 5
Session 1 - Chair: Enrique Chavez-Arvizo (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
9:00-9:45 – Ariane Schneck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/ Universität Bielefeld): “Autonomy and Self-Love in Descartes”
10:00-10:45 – Alexandra Chadwick (University of Leiden/University of Jyväskylä): “‘Pity the Hammer’? Hobbes on Sense and Pansensism”
Session 2 - Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
12:00-12:45 – Ohad Nachtomy (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology): “Spinoza on the Capacities of the Body and the Wonders of the Mind”
1:00-1:45 – Karolina Hübner (Cornell University): “Cavendish and Spinoza on Dividing Minds”
Session 3 - Chair: Kathryn Tabb (Bard College)
2:00-3:00 – Don Garrett (NYU): “Panpsychism, Spinoza’s Way”
Day 3 - December 6
Session 1 - Chair: Dan Cook (CUNY/Brooklyn College)
11:00-11:45 – Graham Clay (University of Notre Dame) and Michael Rauschenbach (Washington University, St. Louis): “The Burden of Unity: Berkeley between Hume and Spinoza”
12:00-12:45 – Taro Okamura (University of Alberta): “Hume’s Passion-Based Account of Agency”
1:00-1:45 – Pirachula Chulanon (University of Chicago): “Kant on the Analogy between Mind and Matter"
9th Annual Workshop - March 2-3, 2019
Hosted at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus), New York City.
Day 1 - March 2
Session 1 – Chair: Justin Steinberg (CUNY/Brooklyn College)
9:45 - 11:00 - Aaron Garrett (Boston University) "Mastery, Masterlessness, and the Duties of Slaves"
11:00 - 12:00 - Julia Borcherding (NYU/Cambridge) "Fancies and Illusions: Cavendish and du Châtelet on the Liberating Power of the Imagination"
Session 2 – Chair: Dan Cook (CUNY/Brooklyn College)
2:00 - 3:00 - Paul Rateau (Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne) “Is Evil a Reality or an Appearance for Leibniz?”
3:00 - 4:00 - Matthew Wurst (University of Toronto) "Why it is Contingent that Leibniz's God Chooses the Best"
Session 3 – Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
4:30 - 5:45 - Robert Adams (Rutgers University) “From Melanchthon to Schleiermacher: The Changing Shape of the Problem”
Day 2 - March 3
Session 1 – Chair: Kathryn Tabb (Columbia University)
10:00 - 11:00 - Jerilyn Tinio (Ohio State University) "Descartes's Privation Theory of Natural Change"
11:00 - 12:00 - Andrea Bianchi (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) "The Revival of Early Christian Theodicy? A Dutch Arminian response to Bayle's Objections"
Session 2 – Chair: Desmond Hogan (Princeton University)
2:00 - 3:00 - Todd Ryan (Trinity College) "Malebranche's General Laws Theodicy in Hutcheson's Inquiry"
3:00 - 4:00 - Richard Fincham (American University Cairo) "Free Will, Theodicy, and the Genesis of the Critique of Pure Reason"
Day 1 - March 2
Session 1 – Chair: Justin Steinberg (CUNY/Brooklyn College)
9:45 - 11:00 - Aaron Garrett (Boston University) "Mastery, Masterlessness, and the Duties of Slaves"
11:00 - 12:00 - Julia Borcherding (NYU/Cambridge) "Fancies and Illusions: Cavendish and du Châtelet on the Liberating Power of the Imagination"
Session 2 – Chair: Dan Cook (CUNY/Brooklyn College)
2:00 - 3:00 - Paul Rateau (Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne) “Is Evil a Reality or an Appearance for Leibniz?”
3:00 - 4:00 - Matthew Wurst (University of Toronto) "Why it is Contingent that Leibniz's God Chooses the Best"
Session 3 – Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
4:30 - 5:45 - Robert Adams (Rutgers University) “From Melanchthon to Schleiermacher: The Changing Shape of the Problem”
Day 2 - March 3
Session 1 – Chair: Kathryn Tabb (Columbia University)
10:00 - 11:00 - Jerilyn Tinio (Ohio State University) "Descartes's Privation Theory of Natural Change"
11:00 - 12:00 - Andrea Bianchi (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) "The Revival of Early Christian Theodicy? A Dutch Arminian response to Bayle's Objections"
Session 2 – Chair: Desmond Hogan (Princeton University)
2:00 - 3:00 - Todd Ryan (Trinity College) "Malebranche's General Laws Theodicy in Hutcheson's Inquiry"
3:00 - 4:00 - Richard Fincham (American University Cairo) "Free Will, Theodicy, and the Genesis of the Critique of Pure Reason"
7th Annual Workshop - May 13-14, 2017
Hosted at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus), New York City.
Day 1 - May 13
Session 1 – Chair: Reed Winegar (Fordham)
10:00 – 11:00 – Christia Mercer (Columbia): “Conway on Experience and Perfectibility”
11:15 - 12:00 – Melanie Tate (University of Washington): “Descartes’ Account of Inner Excitations”
12:00 - 12:45 – Clare Moriarty (King’s College London): “Saving Berkeley’s Bacon”
Session 2 – Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
2:15 - 3:00 – Zvi Biener (University of Cincinnati): “De Gravitatione Reconsidered: The Changing Role of Geometrical Definitions in Newton’s Metaphysics of Space”
3:00 - 3:45– Christopher Noble (Villanova): “The Soul as Spiritual Automaton in Spinoza and Leibniz”
Session 3 – Chair: Don Garrett (NYU)
4:00 - 4:45 - Noa Naaman–Zauderer (Tel-Aviv University): “Leibniz’s Account of Freedom and Moral Therapy in the Nouveaux Essais”
4:45 - 5:45 – Anja Jauernig (NYU): “The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Kant, Leibniz, and the Wolffians on the Composition of Matter”
Day 2 - May 14
Session 1 – Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan/Institute for Advanced Study)
9:30 – 10:30 -- François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal): “Leibniz on Organic Body, Law, and Harmony”
Session 2 – Chair: Kathryn Tabb (Columbia)
10:45 – 11:30 Alessandro Mulieri (KU Leuven): “From Defensor Pacis to Leviathan: An Analysis of Thomas Hobbes’ Marsilian Politics of Religion”
11:30 - 12:15 – Nir Ben-Moshe (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “The Objectivity of Moral Judgment: David Hume’s and Adam Smith’s Moral Points of View”
Session 3 – Chair: Desmond Hogan (Princeton)
1:30 - 2:15 – Andrea Sangiacomo (University Of Groningen): “Sine Qua Non Causation: The Legacy Of Occasionalism In Kant’s New Elucidation”
2:15 - 3:00 – Farshid Baghai (Villanova): “The Systematic Unity of Reason in Kant’s Critical Philosophy”
Day 1 - May 13
Session 1 – Chair: Reed Winegar (Fordham)
10:00 – 11:00 – Christia Mercer (Columbia): “Conway on Experience and Perfectibility”
11:15 - 12:00 – Melanie Tate (University of Washington): “Descartes’ Account of Inner Excitations”
12:00 - 12:45 – Clare Moriarty (King’s College London): “Saving Berkeley’s Bacon”
Session 2 – Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
2:15 - 3:00 – Zvi Biener (University of Cincinnati): “De Gravitatione Reconsidered: The Changing Role of Geometrical Definitions in Newton’s Metaphysics of Space”
3:00 - 3:45– Christopher Noble (Villanova): “The Soul as Spiritual Automaton in Spinoza and Leibniz”
Session 3 – Chair: Don Garrett (NYU)
4:00 - 4:45 - Noa Naaman–Zauderer (Tel-Aviv University): “Leibniz’s Account of Freedom and Moral Therapy in the Nouveaux Essais”
4:45 - 5:45 – Anja Jauernig (NYU): “The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Kant, Leibniz, and the Wolffians on the Composition of Matter”
Day 2 - May 14
Session 1 – Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan/Institute for Advanced Study)
9:30 – 10:30 -- François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal): “Leibniz on Organic Body, Law, and Harmony”
Session 2 – Chair: Kathryn Tabb (Columbia)
10:45 – 11:30 Alessandro Mulieri (KU Leuven): “From Defensor Pacis to Leviathan: An Analysis of Thomas Hobbes’ Marsilian Politics of Religion”
11:30 - 12:15 – Nir Ben-Moshe (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “The Objectivity of Moral Judgment: David Hume’s and Adam Smith’s Moral Points of View”
Session 3 – Chair: Desmond Hogan (Princeton)
1:30 - 2:15 – Andrea Sangiacomo (University Of Groningen): “Sine Qua Non Causation: The Legacy Of Occasionalism In Kant’s New Elucidation”
2:15 - 3:00 – Farshid Baghai (Villanova): “The Systematic Unity of Reason in Kant’s Critical Philosophy”
6th Annual Workshop - June 19-20, 2016
"Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy"
Hosted at Bar-Ilhan University, Jerusalem, Israel. The Workshop is sponsored by the Spinoza Center at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Philosophy Department at Bar-Ilan University. Organized by Pini Ifergan (Bar-Ilan University/The Spinoza Center), Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University), and Reed Winegar (Fordham University/Freie Universität Berlin).
Day 1 - June 19
Session 1 – Chair: Carl Posy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:00 – 11:00 - Paul Guyer (Brown University) – “The Myth of the Infinite Given Magnitude”
11:00 – 11:45 - Reed Winegar (Fordham University/Freie Universität Berlin) – "Kant on Infinity"
11:45 – 12:30 - Igor Agostini (Università del Salento) – “The Scholastic Background to Descartes’s Notion of ens summe perfectum et infinitum”
Session 2 – Chair: Barnaby Hutchins (Bar-Ilan University)
2:00 – 2:45 - Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin, Madison) – “Descartes on the Infinite and the Indefinite: A Reappraisal”
2:45 – 3:30 - Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College) – “Descartes on the Infinity of Space vs. Time”
Session 3 – Chair: Ori Belkind (Tel Aviv University)
4:00 – 4:45 - Giuliana Di Biase (University "G. d'Annunzio," Chieti) – “God’s Infinity in the Dispute between John Locke and Johannes Hudde”
4:45 – 5:45 - Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Johns Hopkins University) – “Infinity in Hobbes and Locke”
Day 2 - June 20
Session 4 – Chair: Daniel Cook (CUNY, Brooklyn College)
9:15 – 10:15 - Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College London) – “Leibniz on the Hypercategorematic Infinite”
10:15 – 11:00 - Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University) – “Comments on Antognazza: Finite and Infinite Aspects in Leibniz’s view of Created Beings”
Session 5 – Chair: José María Sánchez de León (Martin Buber Society)
11:15 – 12:00 - Olivér István Tóth (Eötvös Loránd University) – “The Averroist Legacy in Spinoza’s Doctrine of the Infinite Intellect”
12:00 – 12:45 - Noa Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) – “Spinoza’s Infinite Substance and Finite Modes: The Priority of 'Conceiving Through' over 'Following From’”
Session 6 – Chair: Dror Yinon (Bar-Ilan University)
2:00 – 2:45 - Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Tel Aviv University) – “Experiencing the Infinite: The Imago Dei Doctrine in Descartes and Spinoza”
2:45 – 3:30 - Sanja Särman (Hong Kong University) – “Spinoza’s Theology of the Infinite and its Role in the Love of Fate”
Session 7 – Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University)
4:00 – 4:45 - Raffaele Carbone (Federico II University Naples/ENS de Lyon) – "The Infinite in Malebranche: Between Metaphysics and Mathematics"
4:45 - 5:30 - Pini Ifergan (Bar-Ilan University/The Spinoza Center) – “The Category of Infinity and its Uses in Hegel”
Day 1 - June 19
Session 1 – Chair: Carl Posy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:00 – 11:00 - Paul Guyer (Brown University) – “The Myth of the Infinite Given Magnitude”
11:00 – 11:45 - Reed Winegar (Fordham University/Freie Universität Berlin) – "Kant on Infinity"
11:45 – 12:30 - Igor Agostini (Università del Salento) – “The Scholastic Background to Descartes’s Notion of ens summe perfectum et infinitum”
Session 2 – Chair: Barnaby Hutchins (Bar-Ilan University)
2:00 – 2:45 - Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin, Madison) – “Descartes on the Infinite and the Indefinite: A Reappraisal”
2:45 – 3:30 - Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College) – “Descartes on the Infinity of Space vs. Time”
Session 3 – Chair: Ori Belkind (Tel Aviv University)
4:00 – 4:45 - Giuliana Di Biase (University "G. d'Annunzio," Chieti) – “God’s Infinity in the Dispute between John Locke and Johannes Hudde”
4:45 – 5:45 - Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Johns Hopkins University) – “Infinity in Hobbes and Locke”
Day 2 - June 20
Session 4 – Chair: Daniel Cook (CUNY, Brooklyn College)
9:15 – 10:15 - Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College London) – “Leibniz on the Hypercategorematic Infinite”
10:15 – 11:00 - Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University) – “Comments on Antognazza: Finite and Infinite Aspects in Leibniz’s view of Created Beings”
Session 5 – Chair: José María Sánchez de León (Martin Buber Society)
11:15 – 12:00 - Olivér István Tóth (Eötvös Loránd University) – “The Averroist Legacy in Spinoza’s Doctrine of the Infinite Intellect”
12:00 – 12:45 - Noa Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) – “Spinoza’s Infinite Substance and Finite Modes: The Priority of 'Conceiving Through' over 'Following From’”
Session 6 – Chair: Dror Yinon (Bar-Ilan University)
2:00 – 2:45 - Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Tel Aviv University) – “Experiencing the Infinite: The Imago Dei Doctrine in Descartes and Spinoza”
2:45 – 3:30 - Sanja Särman (Hong Kong University) – “Spinoza’s Theology of the Infinite and its Role in the Love of Fate”
Session 7 – Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University)
4:00 – 4:45 - Raffaele Carbone (Federico II University Naples/ENS de Lyon) – "The Infinite in Malebranche: Between Metaphysics and Mathematics"
4:45 - 5:30 - Pini Ifergan (Bar-Ilan University/The Spinoza Center) – “The Category of Infinity and its Uses in Hegel”
5th Annual Workshop - March 7-8, 2015
Hosted at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus), New York City.
Day 1 - March 7
Session 1 - Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
9:15 – 10:30 - Alan Gabbey (Columbia/Barnard) - “Impenetrability, the Virgin Birth, and Miracles: Descartes and Others”
10:45 – 11:30 - Elliot Paul (Columbia/Barnard) - “Clear and Distinct Perception”
11:45 – 12:30 - Fabrizio Baldassarri (Parma) - “Between Dead and Living Bodies: Rethinking Descartes’ Sciences of Life”
Session 2 - Chair: Dominic Balestra (Fordham)
2:00 – 2:45 - Abel Franco (California State University, Northridge) - “Descartes’ Dog: A Clock with Passions?”
3:00 – 3:45 - Kristin Primus (NYU) - “Spinoza and the Second Meditation”
Session 3 - Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan)
4:15 – 5:00 - Justin Steinberg (CUNY, Brooklyn College) - “Spinoza and the Political Absolute”
5:15 – 6:30 - Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study) - “Spinoza’s View of Revolution”
Day 2 - March 8
Session 1 - Chair: Martha Brandt Bolton
8:45 – 9:30 - Eric Stencil (Utah Valley University) and Julie Walsh (Université du Québec à Montréal) - “The Protestant and the Pelagian: Arnauld and Malebranche on Grace”
9:45 – 10:15 - Daniel Cook (CUNY, Brooklyn College) - “Leibniz, China, and the Problem of Pagan Wisdom”
Session 2 - Chair: Anja Jauernig (NYU)
10:45 – 11:30 - Jessica Gordon-Roth (CUNY, Lehman College) “Anne Finch Conway on Species”
11:45 – 12:30 - Wilson Underkuffler (University of South Florida) - “Inferences, Objects and the Principle of Non-Contradiction: Understanding Hume’s Adequacy Principle in its Contemporary Scottish Philosophical Context”
Session 3 - Chair: Omri Boehm (New School for Social Research)
2:00 – 2:45 - Dai Heide (Simon Fraser) - “Kant on Cosmological Unity and the Unity of Space”
3:00 – 4:15 - Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU) - “Kant on ‘I’ and Persons”
Day 1 - March 7
Session 1 - Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
9:15 – 10:30 - Alan Gabbey (Columbia/Barnard) - “Impenetrability, the Virgin Birth, and Miracles: Descartes and Others”
10:45 – 11:30 - Elliot Paul (Columbia/Barnard) - “Clear and Distinct Perception”
11:45 – 12:30 - Fabrizio Baldassarri (Parma) - “Between Dead and Living Bodies: Rethinking Descartes’ Sciences of Life”
Session 2 - Chair: Dominic Balestra (Fordham)
2:00 – 2:45 - Abel Franco (California State University, Northridge) - “Descartes’ Dog: A Clock with Passions?”
3:00 – 3:45 - Kristin Primus (NYU) - “Spinoza and the Second Meditation”
Session 3 - Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan)
4:15 – 5:00 - Justin Steinberg (CUNY, Brooklyn College) - “Spinoza and the Political Absolute”
5:15 – 6:30 - Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study) - “Spinoza’s View of Revolution”
Day 2 - March 8
Session 1 - Chair: Martha Brandt Bolton
8:45 – 9:30 - Eric Stencil (Utah Valley University) and Julie Walsh (Université du Québec à Montréal) - “The Protestant and the Pelagian: Arnauld and Malebranche on Grace”
9:45 – 10:15 - Daniel Cook (CUNY, Brooklyn College) - “Leibniz, China, and the Problem of Pagan Wisdom”
Session 2 - Chair: Anja Jauernig (NYU)
10:45 – 11:30 - Jessica Gordon-Roth (CUNY, Lehman College) “Anne Finch Conway on Species”
11:45 – 12:30 - Wilson Underkuffler (University of South Florida) - “Inferences, Objects and the Principle of Non-Contradiction: Understanding Hume’s Adequacy Principle in its Contemporary Scottish Philosophical Context”
Session 3 - Chair: Omri Boehm (New School for Social Research)
2:00 – 2:45 - Dai Heide (Simon Fraser) - “Kant on Cosmological Unity and the Unity of Space”
3:00 – 4:15 - Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU) - “Kant on ‘I’ and Persons”
4th Annual Workshop - March 22-23, 2014
Hosted at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus), New York City.
Day 1 - March 22
9: 15 - Session 1 - Chair: Chris Gowans (Fordham)
Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers) - “Extended Substances, Bodies and Modes in Descartes’ Metaphysics”
Gary Hatfield (UPenn) – “On Natural Geometry and Seeing Distance Directly in Descartes”
11:30 – Session 2 - Chair: Dominic Balestra (Fordham)
Gideon Manning (Cal Tech) – “Descartes’ Ontology of Natures”
Elliot Paul (Barnard/Columbia) – “Descartes’s Scientia"
2:30 – Session 3 - Chair: Don Garrett (NYU)
Ruth Boeker (SUNY Albany) – “Accountability and Personal Identity: Locke’s Response to the Problems of of his Predecessors”
Timothy Yenter (Mississippi) – “The Adequacy Criterion, Infinity, and Hume’s Theory of Space”
4:15 – Session 4 - Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan)
Julia Borcherding (Yale) – “Logicality and Innateness: Leibniz’s Formalist Epistemology of Necessity”
Thomas Feeney (Yale) – “Strong Necessitarianism, or What Leibniz left in Paris”
Day 2 - March 23
9:00 – Session 1 - Chair: Desmond Hogan (Princeton)
James Messina (Wisconsin-Madison) – “In the Spirit of Spinoza: Supersubstantivalism, Parallelism, and Kantian Space”
Eric E. Wilson (Georgia State) – “The Concept of Inclination: Kant on Habitual Desire”
10:45 – Session 2 - Chair: Andrew Chignell (Cornell)
Colin Heydt (USF) – “The Problem of Natural Religion in Smith’s Thought”
Ericka Tucker (Cal Poly Pomona) – “Absolute Demoncracy”
1:15 – Session 3 - Chair: Christia Mercer (Columbia)
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) – “Causa efficiens: Spinoza’s Monster Cause”
Michael Della Rocca (Yale) – "Leibniz, Substance, and the Explanatory Demand"
Day 1 - March 22
9: 15 - Session 1 - Chair: Chris Gowans (Fordham)
Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers) - “Extended Substances, Bodies and Modes in Descartes’ Metaphysics”
Gary Hatfield (UPenn) – “On Natural Geometry and Seeing Distance Directly in Descartes”
11:30 – Session 2 - Chair: Dominic Balestra (Fordham)
Gideon Manning (Cal Tech) – “Descartes’ Ontology of Natures”
Elliot Paul (Barnard/Columbia) – “Descartes’s Scientia"
2:30 – Session 3 - Chair: Don Garrett (NYU)
Ruth Boeker (SUNY Albany) – “Accountability and Personal Identity: Locke’s Response to the Problems of of his Predecessors”
Timothy Yenter (Mississippi) – “The Adequacy Criterion, Infinity, and Hume’s Theory of Space”
4:15 – Session 4 - Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan)
Julia Borcherding (Yale) – “Logicality and Innateness: Leibniz’s Formalist Epistemology of Necessity”
Thomas Feeney (Yale) – “Strong Necessitarianism, or What Leibniz left in Paris”
Day 2 - March 23
9:00 – Session 1 - Chair: Desmond Hogan (Princeton)
James Messina (Wisconsin-Madison) – “In the Spirit of Spinoza: Supersubstantivalism, Parallelism, and Kantian Space”
Eric E. Wilson (Georgia State) – “The Concept of Inclination: Kant on Habitual Desire”
10:45 – Session 2 - Chair: Andrew Chignell (Cornell)
Colin Heydt (USF) – “The Problem of Natural Religion in Smith’s Thought”
Ericka Tucker (Cal Poly Pomona) – “Absolute Demoncracy”
1:15 – Session 3 - Chair: Christia Mercer (Columbia)
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) – “Causa efficiens: Spinoza’s Monster Cause”
Michael Della Rocca (Yale) – "Leibniz, Substance, and the Explanatory Demand"
