South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy

Friday, November 4

3:00 Andreea Mihali (Wilfrid Laurier)
“Toward a Cartesian Epistemic Rule Consequentialism”

4:05 Colin Chamberlain (Harvard)
“You’ve Changed: Descartes on the Mind-Body Union”

5:00 Andrew Platt (Central Michigan)
“Malebranche’s Compatibilism”

Saturday, November 5

9:00 Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard)
“Leibniz on Monadic Teleology and Optimal Form”

10:10 Jeremy Dunham (U West of England)
“Leibniz, Nominalism and Plato’s Beard”

11:15 Gregory Brown (Houston)
“Leibniz on the Possibility of a Spatial Vacuum”

2:15 Ruth Boeker (St Andrews/Rutgers)
“The Role of Appropriation in Locke’s Account of Persons and Personal Identity”

3:20 Lewis Powell (Wayne State)
“Locke’s Problem with Privations”

4:25 Shelley Weinberg (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“Locke’s Reply to the Skeptic”

5:30 Remy Debes (Memphis)
“The Peculiar Ethics of David Hume”