The second annual meeting of the South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy will be held Friday-Sunday, February 9-11, at the University of Houston. 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.

Friday, February 9

5:30  Stephen Daniel, Texas A&M University
          The Early Formation of Berkeley's Thought

5:30  Charles Wolfe, Boston University
          Epicuro-Cartesianism: La Mettrie's Materialist Transformation of Early Modern Philosophy

7:30  Tamra Frei, University of North Carolina
          Spinoza: Towards a Consistent Interpretation of Knowledge of Good and Evil

9:00     Benjamin Lipscomb, University of Notre Dame
            Power and Authority in Pufendorf and Others

10:00  Kelly Sorensen, Yale University
          Kant's Taxonomy of the Emotions

11:00  Kate Abramson, University of Illinois
          Commonsense Morals and the British Sentimentalists

1:30    Paul Lodge, Tulane University
          Leibniz on the Proper Ascription of Motion

2:30    James Edwards, University of Redlands
          Locke on Intuitive and Demonstrative Knowledge

3:30    Brigitte Sassen, McMaster University
          Kant's Response to the Cheselden Experiments

4:30    Hernán Pringe, University of Buenos Aires
          The Role of the Transcendental Exposition in the Transcendental Aesthetic

9:00     Devin Henry, King's College, University of London
            Senses, Sensing, and the Passive Mind

10:00   Edward Fried, Rice University
           Leibniz's Criticism of Spinoza's Monism: A Counter-Critique

11:00   Karen Detlefsen, University of Toronto
            Hylomorphism and Material Unity in Descartes

For information on the seminar, contact Anne Jaap Jacobson