South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
The twelfth annual meeting of the South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy will be held Friday-Saturday, November 12-13, 2010, 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 12
3:00
Yitzhak Melamed, Johns Hopkins University
“Causa Efficiens: Spinoza’s Monster Cause”
4:00
Anat Schechtman, Yale University
“Moving beyond the Cogito:
Descartes’ Argument for the Idea of an Infinite Being”
5:00 Break
5:30
Geoff Gorham, Macalester College (Minnesota)
“Hobbes’s Corporeal God: A Defense”
6:30
Al Martinich, University of Texas, Austin
“Authorization and Representation in Hobbes’s
Leviathan”
8:00 Dinner
Saturday, November 13
8:00 Breakfast
9:00
Matt Kisner, University of South Carolina
“Spinoza on the Possibility of Adequate Ideas:
A Solution to the Wild-Goose-Chase Problem”
10:00
Eric Stencil, University of Wisconsin
“Arnauld and the Doctrine of the Creation of the
Eternal Truths: (1642-1648)”
11:00
Julie Walsh, University of California, San Diego
“Locke’s Last Word on Freedom:
The Correspondence with Limborch”
12:00 Lunch
2:00
Han-Kyul Kim, Temple University
“‘The Supposed but Unknown’: A Functionalist
Account of Locke’s Substratum”
3:00
Mark Kulstad, Rice University
“The Epistemic Status of Laws of Nature in the
Philosophy of Leibniz”
4:00 Break
4:30
Todd Buras, Baylor University
“Hume’s Principle, Reid’s
Counterexample”
5:30
Marina Folescu, University of Southern California
“Some Remarks on Reid’s Theory of Imagination”
All sessions will
be held on the Texas A&M University campus in the Philosophy
Department’s Seminar Room, Bolton 213 (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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Michael LeBuffe |
Accommodations are available at the La Quinta Inn in College Station, 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:
Funding for the seminar is
provided by the Department of Philosophy, the College of Liberal Arts,
the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas
A&M University, John J. McDermott (Distinguished Professor of
Philosophy, Melbern G. Glasscock Professor of Humanities, and Regents
Professor), and Stephen H. Daniel (Professor of Philosophy, Presidential
Professor for Teaching Excellence, and Fasken Chair in Distinguished
Teaching).
