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Announcing the Spring 2009 Schedule for the Modern Philosophy Workshop.

All Spring workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted.

Papers will be posted on the workshop blog beforehand and should be read in advance.

  • April 17 | Jennifer Lockhart | University of Chicago
    “Practical Necessity and the A Priori”
  • May 1 | Erica Holdberg | University of Chicago
    TBA
  • May 22 | Rachel Zuckert| Northwestern
    TBA
  • May 29 | Daniel Smyth | University of Chicago
    TBA

The spring schedule is still being finalized. Please check back here for updates.

Announcing the Winter 2009 Schedule for the Modern Philosophy Workshop.

All Winter workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted.

Papers will be posted on the workshop blog beforehand and should be read in advance.

  • Jan 23 | Dasha Polzik | University of Chicago
    “Rousseau’s Ideal: the Happy, ‘Natural’ Citizen”

  • Feb 13 | Julie Cooper| University of Chicago
    “Spinoza’s Critique of Humility”

  • Feb 20 | Rafeeq Hasan | University of Chicago
    “Rousseau and the Attraction of Obligation”
  • Feb 27 | Linda Zerilli | University of Chicago



Fall 2008 Schedule

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All Fall workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted. Papers will be posted on the workshop blog beforehand and should be read in advance.

  • Oct 3 | Nate Zuckerman | University of Chicago
    “Pre-conceptual Intuitions, the B-Deduction, and the Myth of the Given”

  • Oct 10 | Matt Boyle | Harvard University
    “Kant on the Nature of Logic”

  • Oct 31 | Sally Sedgwick | University of Illinois-Chicago
    “The Conditions of Critique: Kant vs. Hegel”

  • Nov 7 | Allen Wood | University of Indiana-Bloomington
    “Kant on Lying”

  • Nov 14 | Thomas Land | University of Chicago & Universitaet Basel
    “Intuition and Judgment”

  • Dec 5 | Justin Shaddock | University of Chicago
    Kant and the B-Deduction

hobbes-small.jpgAll Spring workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted. In order to receive a copy of the paper in advance, please e-mail cntodd@uchicago.edu.

Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

  • April 4 – Dan Kaufman | Colorado
    “Understanding the Real Distinction Between Descartes’ Corporeal Substances”
  • April 11 – Lydia Moland | Babson
    “A Global Rabble? Civil Society and Cosmopolitanism in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”
    This workshop is co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop
  • April 18 – Karolina Hubner | Chicago
    “Spinoza’s Two Ethics”
  • April 25 – Alex Anderson | Chicago
    “The Use of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Proofs of God’s Existence: Avicenna, Descartes, and Spinoza”
  • May 2 – Scott Ferguson | Chicago
    “On Spinoza’s Identification of Appetite and Desire”
  • May 16 – Rafeeq Hasan | Chicago
    “Virtues Natural and Artificial: Rousseau and Hume”
  • May 23 – Justin Shaddock | Chicago
    “The Dual-Argument Structure of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction”
  • May 30 – Thomas Pavel | Chicago
    “What the Early Modern Novel Can Tell Philosophers”
    This workshop is co-sponsored by the 18th & 19th Century Cultures Workshop

Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please call Charles Todd in advance at 617.888.1331.

Descartes All Winter workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted. In order to receive a copy of the paper in advance, please e-mail cntodd@uchicago.edu.

  • Jan. 11 | Matthew Schockey | Indiana
    “Malebranche on Knowing One’s Own Mind”
  • Jan. 25 | Dawn Eschenhauer | UofC
    “Spinoza’s Idealism”
  • Feb. 1 | Thomas Land | UofC
    “Apperception: Was Kant a Wolffian?”
  • Feb. 15 | Mogens Laerke | UofC
    “Spinoza’s Monism: What Monism?”
  • Feb. 29 | Lea Schweitz | UofC
    “Leibniz on the Species Problem in the New Essays, or the Trouble With Changelings, Sea-pigs, Brutes, and Beasts”
  • Mar. 7 | Andreas Blank | Herzog August Bibliothek
    “Existential Dependence and the Question of Emanative Causation in Protestant Metaphysics, 1570-1620”

Download Winter 2008 Poster [pdf]

Fall 2007 Schedule

Descartes All Fall wokshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted. In order to receive a copy of the paper in advance, please e-mail cntodd@uchicago.edu.

  • Oct. 19 | Sam Fleischacker | UIC
    “Sympathy and Imagination in Hume and Smith”
  • Oct. 26 | Robert Fogelin | Dartmouth
    “Hume on the Ancients”
    *4:30pm | Stuart 209
  • Nov. 2 | Kenneth Seeskin | Northwestern
    “Maimonides and Spinoza on God and Contingency”
  • Nov. 9 | Minna Koivuniemi | ENS-Lyon
    “Being One with the Body: the Mind-Body Union in Descartes and Spinoza”
  • Nov. 16 | Carlos Fraenkel | McGill
    “On the Relationship Between Philosophy and Religion in Averroes, Elijah Delmedigo, and Spinoza”
  • Nov. 30 | Ohad Nachtomy | Princeton/Bar-Ilan
    “What’s Leibniz’s distinction between natural and artificial machines got to do with his view of possibility?”

Download Fall Schedule Poster [pdf]