Locke Workshop

Monday March 17, 2014

9:45-10:00: Check-in

10:00- 11:00:

Patricia Sheridan, University of Guelph: “Locke’s Latitudinarian Sympathies.”

Commentator: Ruth Boeker, University at Albany – State University of New York

11:15-12:15:

Elliot Rossiter, University of Western Ontario: “Hedonism and Natural Law in Locke’s Moral Philosophy.”

Commentator: Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia

Chair for Morning Sessions: Benjamin Hill, University of Western Ontario

12:30-1:30: Lunch (provided)

1:45-2:45:

Julie Walsh, Université du Québec à Montréal: “Locke’s Grudge Against Malebranche.”

Commentator: Benjamin Hill, University of Western Ontario

3:00 – 4:00:

Shelley Weinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Consciousness and Moral Motivation in Locke.”

Commentator: Martha Brandt Bolton, Rutgers University

Chair for Afternoon Sessions: Jessica Gordon-Roth, City University of New York, Lehman College

Tuesday March 18, 2014

9:45-10:00: Check-in

10:00 – 11:00:

Joseph Stenberg, University of Colorado at Boulder: “Locke on Individuation and Kinds”

Commentator: Jessica Gordon-Roth, City University of New York, Lehman College

11:15–12:15:

Edwin McCann, University of Southern California: “Essences and the Kinds of Substance.”

Commentator: Dan Kaufman, University of Colorado at Boulder

Chair for Morning Sessions: Benjamin Hill, University of Western Ontario

12:30 – 1:30:  Lunch (provided)

1:30-2:45: Keynote - Kenneth Winkler, Yale University: “Locke on the Social Construction of Kinds.”

Session Chair: Jessica Gordon-Roth, City University of New York, Lehman College 

  *For those not on the Program, but who are interested in joining us March 17-18, please be in touch with Jessica to register (Jessica (dot) GordonRoth (at) lehman (dot) cuny (dot) edu).  Registration will close March 10. 

More information about the Locke Workshop, registration fee, etc can be found on the Locke Workshop site: