4th
Annual
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Weekend
of October 20-21, 2007
Faculty of Philosophy 10 Merton St., Oxford
A list of the papers that will be presented follows below
Please direct any questions via email to: paul dot lodge at
philosophy dot ox dot ac dot
uk
There is no registration
for the conference. Those wishing to attend should simply come along.
Please
note, however, that access to the building will be restricted and
will only be possible during coffee breaks and before the beginning
of sessions.
9.45-10.45 Mogens Laerke (University of Chicago)
"Cartesius et Spinoza plane
dissentiunt: A Reevaluation of Leibniz's 'Spinozist' Reading
of Descartes."
10.45-11.45 Ohad Nachtomy (Princeton University)
"Existence and Possibility between
Leibniz and Kant."
11.45-12.15 - Break
12.15-1.15 Michael Jacovides (Purdue University)
"Locke and the Visual Array."
1.15-2.30 - LUNCH
2.30-3.30 -- Samuel Newlands (University of Notre Dame)
"Another Kind of Spinozistic
Monism."
3.30-4.30 -- Andrew Youpa (Southern Illinois University)
"Spinoza's Model of Human Nature."
4.30-5.00 - Break
5.00-6.00 -- Gregory Brown (University of Houston)
"'Can I Present Infinities to You
and Compare Them Together?': Leibniz's Theodicy and the Perils of
Infinity"
Sunday October 21
9.00-9.30 -- Coffee
9.30-10.30 -- Monte Cook (University of Oklahoma)
"Cartesian Actualism."
10.30-11.30 Martin
Lin (Rutgers University)
"Rationalism and Necessitarianism."
11.30-11.50 - Break
11.50-12.50 Stephen Puryear (Stanford
University)
"Monadic Action."
12.50-1.50 Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
"The Metaphysical and Logical Foundations of
Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles."
