Midwest Conference in Early Modern Philosophy
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.