South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
Eighteenth Annual Meeting
Hendrix College
Conway, AR
November 17-18, 2017
Click on paper title for abstract.
Friday, November 17
3:00-4:00
Tarek Dika, Notre Dame University
“Descartes' Early Dualism in Regulae ad directionem ingenii”
4:05-5:05
Gideon Manning, Claremont Graduate University
“Descartes’s Human Body Problem”
5:10-6:10
Steven Dezort, Texas A&M University
“Locke’s Aesop Fables as a Primer for Moral Demonstration””
7:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, November 18
9:00-10:00
Galen Barry, Iona College
“A Puzzle about Inference in Spinoza”
10:05-11:05
Andrew Youpa, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
“Spinoza’s Friendship Ethics”
11:10-12:10
Matthew Wurst, University of Toronto
“Leibniz on the Asymmetries Between Divine and Human Freedom”
2:00-3:00
Tobias Flattery, Notre Dame University
“Worlds-Apart, Causal Independence, and Existential Independence in Leibniz’s
Metaphysics: A Partial Defense of the Lawful Approach”
3:05-4:05
Timothy Yenter, University of Mississippi
“Ether/Orb: Scottish Newtonians on Causes and Gravity”
4:10-5:10
Daniel Collette, St Norbert College
“Hume’s Pascalian Antidote: Skepticism and its Skeptical Solutions”
5:15-6:15
Rudmer Biljsma, University of Lausanne
“Alienation in Commercial Society: The Republican Perspective of Rousseau and
Ferguson”
All sessions will be held on the Hendrix College campus (click for campus map). Questions should be directed to the conference organizer:
Katherine Dunlop |