Nineteenth Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: Death and Immortality

Friday, November 15

9:30–9:55       Check–in and Coffee

9:55                Welcome

10:00–12:00    Baruch Spinoza

Speaker: Kristin Primus (University of California, Berkeley)

“Spinoza and Our Eternal Mind”

Commentator: John Grey (Michigan State University)

12:00–2:00      Lunch Break 

2:00–4:00        Margaret Cavendish

Speaker: Marcy Lascano (University of Kansas)

“‘There is nothing I Dread More than Death’: Cavendish on Death and the Afterlife"

Commentator: Deborah Boyle (College of Charleston)

4:00–4:30        Coffee Break

4:30–6:00        Immanuel Kant

Speaker: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)

“Kant’s Theoretical Argument for Belief in a Future Zetetic Life”

Commentator: Jochen Bojanowski (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

6:30–7:30        Reception

Saturday, November 16

9:30–10:00      Check–in and Coffee

10:00–12:00    Søren Kierkegaard

Speaker: Clare Carlisle (King’s College London)

“Close to Death: Kierkegaard on Im/mortality and Philosophy”

Commentator: John J. Davenport (Fordham University)

12:00–2:00      Lunch Break

2:00–4:00        Martin Heidegger

Speaker: Mark A. Wrathall (Oxford University)

“Heidegger and the Possibility of Death”

Commentator: Sean Kelly (Harvard University)

4:00–4:30        Coffee Break

4:30–6:30        Contemporary

Speaker: Michael Cholbi (University of Edinburgh)

“Immortal Lives and the Varieties of Agency”

Commentator: Ben Bradley (Syracuse University)

6:30–7:30        Reception