BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T013350Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130216T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130217T170000 SUMMARY:Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy UID:20260612T164248Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:La Mirada\, United States DESCRIPTION:

We are pleased to announce that the seventh annual meeting \;of the Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will \;be held 16 &ndash\; 17 February 2013 at Cal Poly Pomona in \;Pomona\, CA.  \;Following the model of similar seminars \;around the U.S. and Canada\, the Southwest Seminar was \;formed to foster interaction among scholars who work on \;various topics in the history of early modern philosophy \;(a period ranging\, roughly\, from Montaigne to Kant).

All talks will be held in the Collins College.
Please consult our web site for a map of the Cal Poly campus.

Saturday 16 February
9-9:30am
Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:40am
&ldquo\;Pure Love: The Impossible Supposition?&rdquo\;
Thomas M. Lennon\, University of Western Ontario

10:50am-12pm
&ldquo\;Descartes on the Moral Guidance of the Passions&rdquo\;
Matt Kisner\, University of South Carolina

12-1:30pm
Lunch

1:30-2:40pm
&ldquo\;The Susceptibility of Intuitive Knowledge to Akrasia in
Spinoza&rsquo\;s Ethical Thought&rdquo\;
Sanem Soyarslan\, Boston University

2:50-4pm
&ldquo\;The Subsuming Consciousness: A Model for Reconciling
Personal Identity in Locke and Hume&rdquo\;
Louis Gularte\, Northern Illinois University

4-4:30pm
Coffee Break

4:30-5:40pm
&ldquo\;Converting Demea: Demea&rsquo\;s Role in Hume&rsquo\;s
Dialogues concerning Natural Religion&rdquo\;
Tim Black and Robert Gressis\, Cal State - Northridge

6:30-9pm
Conference Dinner (Location TBA)


Sunday 17 February
9-9:30am
Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:40am
&ldquo\;Leibniz on Infinite Numbers\, Infinite Wholes\, and Corporeal Substances&rdquo\;
Adam Harmer\, University of Toronto

10:45-11:55am
&ldquo\;Rationalism and the Foundational Role of Empirical Knowledge
within Wolff&rsquo\;s German Metaphysics&rdquo\;
Veronica Muriel\, University of Pennsylvania


For further information\, including paper abstracts\, please visit the Seminar web site:

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