Twenty-first Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: The Social Contract

Friday, November 6

9:30–9:55          Check–in and Coffee

9:55                    Welcome

10:00–12:00     Thomas Hobbes

Speaker: Sharon Lloyd (University of Southern California)

Commentator: Kinch Hoekstra (University California, Berkeley)

12:00–2:00       Lunch Break

2:00–4:00          John Locke

Speaker: Daniel Layman (Washington University)

Commentator: Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University)

4:00–4:30          Coffee Break

4:30–6:30          Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Speaker: David Lay Williams (DePaul University)

Commentator: Rafeeq Hasan (Amherst College)

6:30–7:30          Reception

Saturday, November 7

9:30–10:00       Check–in and Coffee

10:00–12:00    Immanuel Kant

Speaker: Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto)

Commentator: Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh)

12:00–2:00       Lunch Break

2:00–4:00          Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Speaker: Axel Honneth (Columbia University/Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Commentator: Andreja Novakovic (University of California, Berkeley)

4:00–4:30          Coffee Break

4:30–6:30          Contemporary

Speaker: Claire Finkelstein (University of Pennsylvania)

Commentator: Ryan Muldoon (University at Buffalo)

6:30–7:30          Reception