Early Modern—Saint Louis

April 21, 2017 - April 22, 2017
Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

T-Rex Downtown
911 Washington Ave
Saint Louis 63101
United States

This will be an accessible event, including organized related activities

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Saint Louis University

Organisers:

Richard Fry
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Krista Rodkey
Valparaiso University

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Friday, 21 Apr

12:00-12:30

Coffee and conference info available

12:30-1:30

"Locke's Epistemic Humility"

Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)

1:40-2:40

"Spinoza and Gender Inequality"

Francesca di Poppa (Texas Tech University)

2:50-3:50

"The Contingent Necessity of Descartes' Eternal Truths"

Jeremy Skrzypek (Saint Louis University)

4:00-6:00

Panel on Teaching Modern Philosophy

Eugene Marshall (Florida International),

Judith Crane (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

Saturday, 22 Apr

9:00-10:00

"Locke and Hume on Eternity and Immensity"

Annemarie Butler (Iowa State University)

10:10-11:10

"Descartes on the Animal Within, and the Animals Without"

Evan Thomas (The Ohio State University)

11:20-12:20

"Mary Shepherd and the Abstract Self"

Deborah Boyle (College of Charleston)

Break for Lunch

1:40-2:40

"Spinoza on Human Freedoms and the Eternity of the Mind"

Noa Naaman-Zauderer (Tel Aviv University)

2:50-3:50

"Causal Inference and Perception in the Treatise and first Enquiry; Hume's Anticipation of Modularity"

Louis Loeb (University of Michigan)

4:00-6:00

Keynote Address

"The Role of Motivation in Cartesian Freedom"

Scott Ragland (Saint Louis University)

Sponsored by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Philosophy

Organizers:

Richard Fry, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville ([email protected])

Krista Rodkey, Valpariso University ([email protected])

Conference website: http://em-stl.net 

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