Personal Identity in the History of Philosophy

PROGRAM

Friday 5 August 2016

9:15                 Welcome

9:30-11:00       Deborah Brown (Queensland), “Persons and Things”

Commentator: Allison Sherman (Monash)

11:15-12:45     Matthew Leisinger (Yale), “Cudworth on Personality”

Commentator: Jacqueline Broad (Monash)

Lunch (registration required)

2:30-4:00         Kathryn Tabb (Columbia), “Mad Persons: Personal Identity, Mental Hygiene, and the Association of Ideas in Locke”

Commentator: Bruce Langtry (Melbourne)

4:15-5:45         Udo Thiel (Graz), “Between Locke and Leibniz: Charles Bonnet on Self-consciousness and Personal Identity”

Commentator: Peter Anstey (Sydney) 

Conference Dinner (for speakers and commentators)

Saturday 6 August 2016

9:30-11:00       Ruth Boeker (Melbourne), “Shaftesbury and Hume on the Self, Character and Humanity”

Commentator: Karen Green (Melbourne)

11:15-12:45     Howard Durcharme (Akron), “Personal Identity and Moral Identity of Persons in Samuel Clarke”

Commentator: Michael Olson (Macquarie)

Lunch (registration required)

2:30-4:00         Tamar Levanon (Bar Ilan), “The Neglected Impact of Thomas Reid’s Analysis of Self”

Commentator: Patrick Stokes (Deakin)

4:15-5:45         Simone Gubler (Texas), “A Case for Self-Decreation”

Commentator: Artem Bourov (Melbourne)

This conference has been made possible through the generous support of the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, and is jointly organized by the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, and Newman College.