Hopkins Seminar in Early and Late Modern Philosophy

Registration is free but required.  To register email [email protected].

Sunday, January 11

Gilman Hall, Room 288

9:00-10:00
Nabeel Hamid (Concordia):  Eclectics, Novantiqui, and German Cartesianism

10:00-11:00

Areins Pelayo (Grand Valley State):  Revisiting Newton's 'Probabilism'

11:00-11:30

Break

11:30-12:30

Z Quanbeck (NYU):  Kierkegaard on Moral and Religious Deference

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:30

Thomas Lambert (Pitzer):  The Kiss of Conscience: Nietzsche's Ambivalent Moral Psychology

2:30-3:30

Ian Dunkle (UT-Chattanooga):  Pascal and Schopenhauer on the Vanity of Human Endeavor

3:30-4:00

Break

4:30-6:00

Keynote: Anja Jauernig (NYU): TBD

Monday, January 12

Gilman Hall, Room 288

8:00-9:00

Christopher Martin (Toledo):  Spinoza on Formal Essences and Durational Natures

9:00-10:00
Xavier Piccone (Colorado State):  Contradiction, Consistency and Essence: Spinoza's Principle of Non-Contradiction

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-11:30
Andrew Pitel (Chicago):  Intuitive and Discursive Metaphysics: Descartes and Kant on I Exist

11:30-12:30

Sara Boljevic (Texas):  Malebranche on Knowledge of the Mind

12:30-1:45

Lunch – Gilman 288

1:45-2:45

David Landy (San Francisco State):  Kant and Shepherd on the Supreme Principle of the Understanding

2:45-3:00
            Break

3:00-4:30

Keynote: Alan Nelson (UNC): What Everyone Knows (But Often Forgets) About Early Modern Philosophy

The Seminar is supported by generous grants from the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe at Johns Hopkins University.