The 2015 John Locke Workshop

May 1, 2015 - May 2, 2015
Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario

London
Canada

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UWO-CUNY John Locke Workshop

May 1-3, 2015

London, Ontario

Friday May 1

8:30-9:00       Coffee

9:00-10:15    Nathan Rockwood (Virginia Tech)  "Locke on Scientific Knowledge"

                      Andrew Janiak (Duke) (commentator)

10:15-10:45  Coffee Break

10:45-12:00  Patrick Connolly (Iowa State) "Locke and the Methodology of Newton's Principia

                      Bill Harper (Western) (commentator)

12:00-1:45    Lunch

1:45-3:00      Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester) and Ed Slowik (Winona State) "Locke on Temporal and Spatial Measures"

                      Katherine Dunlop (UT Austin) (commentator)

3:00-3:30       Rotman Speaker Reception

3:30-5:00       Peter Anstey (Sydney) (Rotman Speakers Series) “Locke on Measurement”

7:00-10:00    Dinner

Saturday May 2

8:30-9:00      Coffee

9:00-10:15    Lex Newman (Utah) "Locke's Empiricism and His Mechanist Idea of Body" 

                     Antonia LoLordo (UVA) (commentator)

10:15-10:45  Coffee Break

10:45-12:00  Allison Kuklok (St. Michael’s) "Locke, Hume, and Causal Power in Bodies" 

                     Michael Jacovides (Purdue) (commentator)

12:00-1:30    Lunch

1:30-2:45      Benjamin Hill (Western) “Natural Powers in Locke’s Philosophy of Science: A Contradiction?”

                     Elliot Rossiter (Western) (commentator)

2:45-3:00      Coffee Break

3:00-4:15      Patrick Arnold (Nebraska) "Locke's Conventionalism about Biological Species"

                      Susanna Goodin (Wyoming) (commentator)

4:15-4:30       Coffee Break

4:30-5:45       Margaret Atherton (UW- Milwaukee) (Invited) “Locke and Berkeley on Real Knowledge”

7:00-10:00    Dinner

 

Sunday May 3

8:30-9:00       Coffee

9:00-10:15    Kathryn Tabb (Pittsburgh) "Locke's Mad Errors: Associated Ideas and the Ethics of Belief"

                      Louis Charland (Western) (commentator)

10:15-10:30  Coffee Break

10:30-11:45  Jessica Gordon-Roth (CUNY) “Locke, Clarke, and Collins on the Possibility of Thinking Matter”

                      William Uzgalis (Oregon State) (commentator)

11:45-1:00    Lunch (for those traveling later in the day)

Session Chairs: Edwin McCann (USC), Julie Walsh (UQAM),

Benjamin Hill (Western) and Jessica Gordon-Roth (CUNY)

Organizers: Benjamin Hill and Jessica Gordon-Roth

Registration Deadline for those who wish to attend, but who are not on the program:

April 15

To register please send an email to: johnlockesociety (at) uwo (dot) ca

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