South
Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO
September 26-27, 2003
The fifth annual meeting of the South Central Seminar in the History of
Early Modern Philosophy will be held Friday-Saturday, September 26-27, at Saint Louis University
in St. Louis, Missouri.
Like similar seminars in other parts of the country, the South Central Seminar
is an informal group designed to foster interaction among scholars working on
topics in the history of early modern people.
Schedule of Events
Click on paper title for abstract.
Friday, September 26
2:00
Andrew Pessin, Kenyon
College
Divine and Non-divine Eternal Truths in Descartes
3:00
Geoffrey Gorham, Macalester College
Descartes
on the Endurance of the Soul
4:00
Michael LeBuffe, Texas
A&M University
Spinoza's Rationalist Ethics
5:00
Madeleine Arseneault, University
of Wisconsin, Madison
Good and Evil in Spinoza's Ethics
7:30
Dinner for all registered attendees and guests
Saturday, September 27
9:00
Laurence Carlin, University
of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Leibniz on Final Causation
10:00
Michael Losonsky, Colorado
State University
Of Angels and Human Beings: Locke, Leibniz, and Condillac on Language
11:00
Lex Newman, University
of Utah
Locke's Ideas and the Intelligibility of the Distinction of Primary and Secondary Qualities
12:00 Lunch
2:00
Eric Schliesser, Washington
University, St.
Louis
Berkeley's Response to Newton: Philosophy between Common Life and Natural Philosophy
3:00
Girard Brenneman, Johns
Hopkins University
Broadening the Scope of Humean Natural Believing
4:00
Kaveh Kamooneh, University
of Minnesota
Normativity and Generality: A Study in the Unity of Hume's Treatise
5:00
Yumiko Inukai, University
of Pennsylvania
Hume's Bundling Problem: Our Experience of the Unity of the Self
All sessions will be held in
the Knights Room of the Pius XII Library on the Saint Louis University campus. Although there is no registration fee for the
seminar, we ask that you register for the seminar and indicate your intention
to attend the dinner by contacting either
Accommodations are available at the
Cheshire Inn (6300
Clayton Road,
on the southwest corner of Forest Park).
Because the Cheshire is a 15 minute drive to campus, participants will have
to use the hotel shuttle bus to get to the seminar. For reservations, call 314-647-7300 and mention you
are with the “Early Modern Philosophy Conference” to get the
conference rate of $72.82/night.
From the airport you can get to the Cheshire
Inn either by cab or the MetroLink light rail system.
For a cab, call the Cheshire and they will have a County Cab pick you up and bring you to the Inn
for $21 (same fare for up to four persons). You can also take the Metrolink (which on Friday morning and early afternoon
leaves the airport every 20 minutes) to the Central West End station for $3. When you reach the station, call the Cheshire and they will send their shuttle van to pick you up. For
a map of the Saint Louis University campus, click here.
