South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
October 4-5, 2002

The fourth annual meeting of the South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy will be held Friday-Saturday, October 4-5, 2002, at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. 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.

Presentations:

Matthew J. Kisner, University of California, San Diego, "Skepticism in Early Descartes"
Fred Ablondi, Hendrix College, "Cordemoy on Language and the Mind-Body Union"
Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia, "Descartes and Malebranche on Sensation, Explanation, and the Nature of the Mind"
Brandon Watson, University of Toronto, "Universal Reason and Malebranche's Theory of Ideas"
Noa Shein, University of California, Irvine, "Is Spinoza's God Conscious?"
Marc Bobro, University of Southern Maine, "Was I Always a Person? Leibniz and Conway on the Generation of the Rational Soul"
Dan Kaufman, University of Florida, "Masses and Organisms: Locke and the Individuation of Material Things"
Anne Jaap Jacobson, University of Houston, "Hume and Abstract Ideas"
Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, "Reading Lady Mary Shepherd"
Susanne Sreedhar, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, "An Analysis and Defense of Hobbes's Right of Self-Defense"