Locke Workshop

Friday October 26

4:00-6:00 pm                                     

Invited Speaker: Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia), ‘Three Problems in Locke’s Ontology of Substance and Mode’

Location: Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library

7:00 pm                                

Dinner: Bistro on Main

Saturday October 27

8:00-8:30 am                   

Continental Breakfast: Elrod Commons 206, Chavis Boardroom

8:30-10:00 am                

Emily Crookston (Coastal Carolina University), ‘Making Sense of Mixed Modes: Reconciling Locke’s Metaphysics and His Moral Philosophy’

Commentator: Ruth Boeker (Bowling Green State University)

Session Chair: Jessica Gordon-Roth (Washington and Lee)

10:15-11:45 am            

Jan-Erik Jones (Southern Virginia University), ‘Locke, Essences and Ontology’

Commentator: Patrick Connelly (UNC Chapel Hill)

Session Chair: James Mahon (Washington and Lee)

12:00-1:15 pm               

Lunch

1:30-3:00 pm                                     

Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario), ‘A Better Argument for Content Externalism in Locke’

Commentator: Matthew Priselac (Virginia Tech)

Session Chair: Jessica Gordon-Roth (Washington and Lee)

3:15-4:45 pm                                     

Lewis Powell (University at Buffalo, SUNY), ‘Locke’s Problems with Copulation and Conception’

Commentator: Shelley Weinberg (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Session Chair: James Mahon (Washington and Lee)

Location for papers Saturday: Elrod Commons 206, Chavis Boardroom

With thanks to the Office of the Dean of the College and the Department of Philosophy

Contact: Jessica Gordon-Roth: [email protected].