Modern Philosophy Workshop » Midwest Seminar http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil The workshop is a forum for graduate students and faculty from various departments to engage with Modern thinkers. The meetings are devoted to a discussion of papers by visiting speakers and graduate students from philosophy, divinity, social thought and other departments. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:42:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Midwest Seminar Schedule | May 2-3 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/2009/04/28/midwest-seminar-in-early-modern-philosophy-may-2-3/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/2009/04/28/midwest-seminar-in-early-modern-philosophy-may-2-3/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:35:42 +0000 cntodd http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/?p=254 Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

2-3 MAY 2009

Organizing Committee:

Daniel Garber (Princeton University)

Lea Schweitz (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago)

Mogens Lærke (University of Chicago)

All sessions will take place in

The Franke Institute conference room in the Regenstein Library

Saturday 2 May

12.00-13.15

Ohad Nachtomy (Bar Ilan University) “…nisi… Deus existeret, nihil possibile foret.” Leibniz and Kant on Possibility and Existence

13.15-14.30

Marcy Lascano (University of California, Long Beach)Leibniz and Kant on Creation and Emanation

Break

15.00-16.15

Joseph Tinguely (New School of Social Research)What is Orientation not in Thinking? A Reconsideration of Kant and the Role of Feelings in Knowledge

16.15-17.30

Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard University)Leibniz’s Meta-Conciliatory Account of Substance

Break

17.45-19.00

Eric Stencil (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Arnauld’s Actualism

20.00. Conference Dinner

Sunday 3 May

9.00-10.15

Fatima R. R. Evora (State University of Campinas) and Marcio A. D. Custodio (Princeton University)The Concept of Matter in Philoponus and its Repercussions in the Beginning of Modern Science

10.15-11.30

Eric Schliesser (Leiden University)Newtonian Emanation, Measurement and the Baconian Origins of the Laws of Nature

Light Lunch

12.45-14.00

Lynn S. Joy (University of Notre Dame)Dispositions and Intentionality in Boyle, Newton, and Hume

* For further information, please contact Mogens Lærke on mlaerke@uchicago.edu

]]> http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/2009/04/28/midwest-seminar-in-early-modern-philosophy-may-2-3/feed/ 0 Midwest Seminar Call For Abstracts http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/2009/02/13/midwest-seminar-call-for-abstracts/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/2009/02/13/midwest-seminar-call-for-abstracts/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:47:35 +0000 cntodd http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/?p=214 2009 Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

May 2-3, 2009
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Submission Deadline

March 2, 2009

Guidelines

Abstracts welcome on any topic in early modern philosophy (broadly defined, ranging from late Renaissance philosophy to the Enlightenment). We particularly encourage proposals which consider early modern philosophy in relation to other related disciplines, such as theology, intellectual history and/or the history of science.

Please submit an abstract (of between 500 and 750 words) by March 2, 2009.

(Please note: Final papers should be approximately 45 minutes in reading length.)

Submissions

Abstracts should be sent by email to: mlaerke@uchicago.edu

More Information

For more information download the Call For Abstracts here.

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