South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
The fourteenth annual meeting of the South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy will be held Friday-Saturday, November 2-3, 2012, at Texas A&M University, College Station. 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 and photo of presenter.
Friday, November 2
3:00
Tom Holden, UC Santa Barbara
“Hobbes on the Function of Evaluative Speech”
4:05
Marie Jayasekera, Colgate University
“Descartes on the Analogy between the Divine and Human Will”
5:10
Joshua Wood, Texas A&M University
“Nisus in Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume”
7:00 Dinner
Saturday, November 3
9:00
John Whipple, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Discours Exoterique
in Leibniz's Essais de Theodicée: Moral and Physical Evil”
10:05
Samuel Rickless, University of California, San Diego
“Locke’s Theory of Personal
Identity”
11:10
Jessica Gordon-Roth, Washington and Lee University
“A New Substance Reading of Locke on Persons”
12:15 Lunch
2:00
Benjamin Hill, University of Western Ontario
“A Better Argument for Content Externalism in Locke”
3:05
Melissa Frankel, Carlton University, Ottawa
“Berkeley on Divine Archetypes and the Rejection of Scepticism”
4:15
Dario Perinetti, Université du Quebec à Montréal
“Perceptions and Objects in Hume's
Treatise”
5:25
Ken Winkler, Yale University
“Causal Realism and Hume’s
Revisions of the Enquiry”
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All sessions will
be held on the Texas A&M University campus in the Philosophy
Department’s Seminar Room, YMCA Building 401 (click
for campus map). Although
there is no registration fee for the seminar, we ask that you register
for the seminar and indicate your intention to attend the seminar
dinner on Friday night by contacting the conference organizer:
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Steve Daniel |
All seminar presenters will have their hotel accommodations at
Homewood Suites, College Station and meals paid for
by the Texas A&M Early Modern Philosophy Initiative. Accommodations are available at a special rate for all other
attendees, and parking on campus is available at the Central Campus Parking Garage or the Northside Parking Garage.
This conference is listed (along with other events dealing with the
study of modern philosophy) on the Early
Modern Philosophy Calendar.
Travel: College Station is served by United Airlines via Houston and American Airlines via
Dallas-Fort Worth. College Station is located 100 miles from Houston, 175 miles from
Dallas-Fort Worth, and 100 miles from Austin.
Funding for the seminar is
provided by the Texas A&M Early Modern Philosophy
Initiative and the Department of people.
