Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

All seminar presenters will have their accommodations and meals paid for by the Texas A&M Early Modern Philosophy Initiative: http://earlymodernphilosophy.tamu.edu/index.html

Friday, November 2

3:00-4:00  Tom Holden (UC Santa Barbara): “Hobbes on the Function of Evaluative Speech”
4:05-5:05  Marie Jayasekera (Colgate): “Descartes on the Analogy between the Divine and Human Will”
5:10-6:10  Josh Wood (Texas A&M): “Nisus in Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume”
7:00 Conference Dinner, home of Steve and Breaux Daniel

Saturday, November 3

9:00-10:00  John Whipple (Illinois, Chicago): “Discours Exoterique in Leibniz’s Essais de Theodicée: Moral and Physical Evil”
10:05-11:05  Samuel Rickless (UC San Diego): “Locke’s Theory of Personal Identity”
11:10-12:15  Jessica Gordon-Roth (Washington and Lee): “A New Substance Reading of Locke on Persons”
2:00-3:00  Benjamin Hill (Western Ontario): “A Better Argument for Content Externalism in Locke”
3:05-4:10  Melissa Frankel (Carlton, Ottawa): “Berkeley on Divine Archetypes and the Rejection of Scepticism”
4:15-5:20  Dario Perinetti (Québec à Montréal): “Perceptions and Objects in Hume’s Treatise”
5:25-6:30  Ken Winkler (Yale): “Causal Realism and Hume’s Revisions of the Enquiry”

Abstracts of the presentations will be posted at the seminar website. Ken Winkler will also be speaking on Thursday, Nov. 1, 3:45 p.m. on "The Idealism of Emerson" as part of the Texas A&M Early Modern Philosophy Initiative. Attendees are invited to the conference dinner on Friday night.

Contact: Stephen H. Daniel ([email protected]).

Abstracts of the presentations will be posted at the seminar website: