South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
Sixteenth Annual Meeting
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
May 30-31, 2014
Click on paper title for abstract.
Friday, May 30
1:30-2:35
Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania
“Rethinking Descartes on the Senses”
2:40-3:45
Marcus Adams, State University of New York Albany
“Hobbes on the Laws of Nature”
4:00-5:05
Daniel Schneider, University of Ghent/University of Wisconsin
“Spinoza Was a Methodist—No, Seriously”
5:10-6:15
Kristin Primus, New York University
“What’s Intuitive About Spinoza’s Third Kind of Knowledge?”
7:00 Dinner
Saturday, May 31
9:30-10:35
Geoffrey Gorham, Macalester College
“Spinoza on Time: The Mathematization of Nature”
10:40-11:45
Roger Ariew, University of South Florida
“Substance, Being, and the Individual in Leibniz’s Philosophy,
1663-1686”
11:55-1:00
Chloe Armstrong, University of Michigan
“The Development of Per Se Modality in Leibniz’s Early Work”
1:00-2:45 Lunch
2:45-3:50
Adam Harmer, University of California, Riverside
“Leibniz and Descartes on the Plurality of Bodies”
3:55-5:00
Patrick Connolly, Iowa State University
“Space Before God: A Problem in Newton’s Metaphysics”
5:10-6:15
Julie Walsh, Université du Québec, Montréal
“Wants of Fancy and Wants of Nature: Locke on Uneasiness, Habit, and Animal Spirits”
All sessions will be held on the Texas A&M University campus in the Philosophy
Department’s Seminar Room, YMCA Building 401 (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 |
Seminar participants will be staying at the
College Station Hilton Hotel. Parking on campus is available at the Central Campus Parking Garage or the Northside Parking Garage. College Station is served by United Airlines via Houston and American Airlines via
Dallas-Fort Worth. College Station is located 100 miles from Houston, 175 miles from Dallas-Fort Worth, and 100 miles from Austin. Funding for the seminar is provided by the Texas A&M Early Modern Philosophy
Initiative and the Department of people.
