BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T081127Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220517T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T170000 SUMMARY:NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy: Expanding the Canon UID:20240329T081128Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:New York\, United States DESCRIPTION:
NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy:
Expanding the Canon
May 17-19\, 2022
\nFordham University
\nAll sessions will take place on-line. Listed times correspond to New York local time (EDT).
\nMay 17th
\nChair: Don Garrett (NYU)
\n10:00-11:00 \; Daniel Garber (Princeton University) &ndash\; Tales of the Not-So Mighty Dead: Descartes and the Case for Reading Outside the Canon
\n11:00-12:00 Jonathan Head (Keele University) &ndash\; Conway&rsquo\;s World Soul and Monism
\nChair: Jessica Gordon-Roth (University of Minnesota)
\n1:00-2:00 Olivia Branscum (Columbia University) &ndash\; Against the &ldquo\;Empty Fiction&rdquo\; of Senseless Matter: Some Systematic and Historical Implications of Anne Conway&rsquo\;s Panpsychism
\n2:00-3:00 Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst) &ndash\; Early Modern Theories of Racism
\nMay 18th
\nChair: Allison Aitken (Columbia)
\n10:00-11:00 Guenter Zoeller (LMU Munich) &ndash\; How (Not) to Write the First Polylogic Epistolary Novel: Philosophy and Fiction in Montesquieu&rsquo\;s Persian Letters
\n11:00-12:00 Manuel Fasko (Universitaet Basel) &ndash\; &lsquo\;The complicate being self&rsquo\;: Mary Shepherd and the Difference between Self and Mind
\nChair: Dwight Lewis (University of Minnesota)
\n1:00-2:00 \; Alex Barrientos (University of Utah) &ndash\; Mary Shepherd&rsquo\;s Defense of Miracles against Hume
\n2:00-3:00 Justin Smith (Paris Diderot) &ndash\; Must a Philosopher Have Existed in Order to Be Canonical? The Case of Zera Yacub
\nMay 19th
\nChair: Nabeel Hamid (Concordia)
\n10:00-11:00 Fabrizio Baldassari (Ca&rsquo\; Foscari University of Venice and Indiana University-Bloomington) &ndash\; An Overlooked Section of Early Modern Philosophy: The Philosophy of Plants and the Roots of Life
\n11:00-12:00 Iziah Topete (Penn State) &ndash\; Amo on Freedom and Impediment
\nChair: Courtney Fugate (American University of Beirut)
\n1:00-2:00 Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven) &ndash\; Baumgarten on the Impenetrability of Monads
\n2:00-3:00 Corey Dyck (Western University) &ndash\; Amalia Holst and the Education of the Human Race
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