16th New York City Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

Saturday, May 30 — Lowenstein, 12th Floor Lounge

9:45: Welcome Note

10:00 – 11:30 Chair: Galen Barry (Iona)

Christopher Kluz (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), “Are All Ideas Affects for

Spinoza? A Puzzle Concerning Desire and Belief”

Jen Nguyen (Bucknell), “Modernizing Descartes's Algebra: Leibniz’s Calculus of Situations

Revisited”

11:45 – 12:45 Chair: Ohad Nachtomy (Technion)

Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard), “Leibniz as Atomist”

12:45 – 2:30: Lunch

2:30 – 4:00 Chair: Bligh Somma (Fordham)

Dávid Bartha (University of Milan), “Animals in Heaven? Divine Justice, Immortality, and

Animal Ethics in 18th-Century British Thought”

Margaret Matthews (Assumption), “Gabrielle Suchon on Curiosity”

4:15 – 5:15 Chair: Andrew Chignell (Princeton)

Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame), “Spinoza as Idealist, Acosmist, Pantheist"

Sunday, May 31 — Lowenstein, 12th Floor Lounge

10:00 – 11:00 Chair: Haley Brennan (NYU)

Kathryn Tabb (Bard), “Does Locke Have Any Good Ideas?”

11:15 – 12:45 Chair: Don Garrett (NYU)

Charles Goldhaber (University of Florida), “Mechanisms for Hume’s Skepticism”

Nir Ben-Moshe (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), “Did Smith Commit the Moralistic

Fallacy?”

12:45 – 2:15: Lunch

2:15 – 3:45 Chair: Anja Jauernig (NYU)

Noam Hoffer (Bar-Ilan), “Richard Price’s Modal Proof for the Existence of God”

Davide Dalla Rosa (Trier University) and Lewis Wang (Boston University), “Kant’s Theory of

Meaning”

4:00 – 4:45 Desmond Hogan (Princeton)

Marius Stan (Boston College), “Kant’s Account of Mathematizing Nature”