The third annual meeting of the South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy will be held Friday-Saturday, April 12-13, 2002, at Loyola University in New Orleans. 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.

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Friday, April 12

1:30   Alice Sowaal, Texas Tech University
          Descartes's Reply to Gassendi: We Can Know All of God, All at Once, and Still Have More to Learn

2:30   Larry Nolan, California State University, Long Beach
          Descartes and Suarez on the Distinction Between Essence and Existence

3:30   Scott Ragland, St. Louis University
          Descartes on Divine Providence and Human Freedom

4:30   Firmin R. DeBrabander, Emory University
          Psychotherapy and Moral Perfection according to Spinoza and the Stoics

5:30   André Gombay and Jon Miller, University of Toronto
          Nothing but the Truth: Spinoza's E4P72S

7:30   Dinner for all registered attendees and guests

9:00     Mark Kulstad, Rice University
            The One and the Many, Universal Harmony, and the Threat of Monism in the Philosophy of Leibniz

10:00   Justin E. Smith, Miami University, Ohio
            Christian Platonism and the Metaphysics of Body in Leibniz

11:00   Tom Holden, Syracuse University
            Pierre Bayle on Actual Parts

1:30     Bruce Merrill, Cambridge, NY
            The Unity of Locke's Philosophy

2:30     Marc A. Hight, Hampden-Sydney College
            Defending Berkeleian Archetypes

3:30     Dorothy Coleman, Northern Illinois University
            Baconian Probability and Hume's Theory of Testimony

Steve Daniel Department of Philosophy Texas A&M University Phone: 979-845-5619 or 979-846-4649 Email: sdaniel@people.tamu.edu

Gary Herbert Department of Philosophy Loyola University, New Orleans Phone: 504-865-3056 Email: gherbert@loyno.edu

Modest accommodations at the Dominican Conference Center on the Loyola campus (a 15-minute walk to the library) are available at $31 per night ($26/person if two people share a room); rooms have two twin beds. Each room shares a bathroom with one other room. If you would like to take advantage of these rates and spend more time visiting New Orleans, you can come as early as April 10 and stay until April 17. The phone number for the Center is 504-861-8711; fax 504-861-89718. Be sure to indicate that you are with the South Central Seminar in Modern people.

Shuttle bus service from the airport to the Conference Center is available for about $10; a taxi is approximately $20. On-street parking near the Conference Center (across Dominican Street from St. Mary's Hall on the Broadway Campus of Loyola) is very limited. For a map of the Broadway campus and main Loyola campus, click here.

Loyola University is on the streetcar line at 6363 St. Charles Ave. Other accommodations on the street car line are available three miles away at the St. Charles Inn (3636 St. Charles Ave., $75+ per night), the Columns Hotel (3811 St. Charles Ave., 75-$125 per night), and the Hampton Inn (3626 St. Charles Ave., $100-125 per night).