South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
The thirteenth annual meeting of the South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy will be held Friday-Saturday, November 4-5, 2011, 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 4
3:00
Andreea Mihali, Wilfrid Laurier University
“Toward a Cartesian Epistemic Rule Consequentialism”
4:05
Colin Chamberlain, Harvard University
“You’ve Changed:
Descartes on the Mind-Body Union”
5:10
Andrew Platt, Central Michigan University
“Malebranche’s Compatibilism”
7:00 Dinner
Saturday, November 5
8:30 Breakfast Snacks in Seminar Room
9:00
Jeffrey McDonough, Harvard University
“Leibniz on Monadic Teleology and Optimal
Form”
10:10
Jeremy Dunham, University of the West of England
“Leibniz, Nominalism and Plato’s
Beard”
11:15
Gregory Brown, University of Houston
“Leibniz on the Possibility of
a Spatial Vacuum”
12:20 Lunch
2:15
Ruth Boeker, University of
St Andrews / Rutgers University
“The Role of Appropriation in Locke’s Account of
Persons and Personal Identity”
3:20
Lewis Powell, Wayne State University
“Locke’s Problem with
Privations”
4:25
Shelley Weinberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Locke’s Reply to the
Skeptic”
5:30
Remy Debes, University of Memphis
“The Peculiar Ethics of David Hume”
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Jeff McDonough will also be speaking on |
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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Steve Daniel |
Accommodations are available (at a special state rate) at the
Vineyard Court Designer Suites Hotel 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 Texas A&M Early Modern Philosophy
Initiative and the Department of people.
