September 26-28, 2014

Join us for the Midwest Conference in Early Modern Philosophy! All events will take place in Curtin Hall, 3243 N. Downer Ave, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

PROGRAM

Friday, September 26

Time	Curtin Hall, Room 175
3:30pm	Edwin McCann, University of Southern California Amphibolizing Leibniz: Kant's Critical Discussion of Leibniz's Unifying Account of Unity

Saturday, September 27

Time	Curtin Hall, Room 175
8:00-9:00am	Continental Breakfast Buffet
9:00-10:00am	Lewis Powell, University at Buffalo, SUNY Reid v Hume on Predication and Belief
10:10-11:10am	Timothy Yenter, University of Mississippi Hume's Criteria for Successful Demonstrations
11:20am-12:20pm	Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia Jonathan Edwards' Argument for Immaterialism
12:30-1:30pm	Lunch Buffet
1:30-2:45pm	Martha Bolton, Rutgers University Descartes on Extended Substances, Bodies and Motion
2:55-3:55pm	Melissa Frankel, Carleton University Berkeley on Our Knowledge of External Objects
3:55-4:15pm	Coffee Break
4:15-5:15pm	Geoffrey Gorham, Macalaster College and Edward Slowik, Winona State University Locke on Space and Time: Combining Empiricism and Absolutism
5:20-6:20pm	Julia Jorati, The Ohio State University Leibnizian Contingency and the Precipice of Spinozism

Sunday, September 28

Time	Curtin Hall, Room 175
8:00-9:00am	Continental Breakfast Buffet
9:00-10:00am	Justin Steinberg, Brooklyn College, CUNY Desire and Affect in Spinoza's Account of Motivation
10:10-11:10am	Raffaella De Rosa, Rutgers-Newark Descartes' Arguments for the Innateness of Sensations
11:20am-12:20pm	Scott Ragland and Everett Fulmer, St Louis University There is no Circle in the Fourth Meditation

All events will take place in Curtin Hall, 3243 N. Downer Ave, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

A block of rooms has been reserved for conference attendees at the Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, 1-800-558-0200, at a rate of $80/night UNTIL AUGUST 25. The hotel will provide a shuttle to the conference.

The conference is co-sponsored with the UWM College of Letters and Science and the UWM Graduate School.