All talks will be held in the Collins College. For further information, including paper abstracts, please visit the Seminar web site:
http://www.unm.edu/~mdomski/swseminar13.html
** Saturday 16 February **
9-9:30am
Continental Breakfast
9:30-10:40am
“Pure Love: The Impossible Supposition?”
Thomas M. Lennon, University of Western Ontario
10:50am-12pm
“Descartes on the Moral Guidance of the Passions”
Matt Kisner, University of South Carolina
12-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-2:40pm
“The Susceptibility of Intuitive Knowledge to Akrasia in
Spinoza’s Ethical Thought”
Sanem Soyarslan, Boston University
2:50-4pm
“The Subsuming Consciousness: A Model for Reconciling
Personal Identity in Locke and Hume”
Louis Gularte, Northern Illinois University
4-4:30pm
Coffee Break
4:30-5:40pm
“Converting Demea: Demea’s Role in Hume’s
Dialogues concerning Natural Religion”
Tim Black and Robert Gressis, Cal State – Northridge
6:30-9pm
Conference Dinner (Location TBA)
** Sunday 17 February **
9-9:30am
Continental Breakfast
9:30-10:40am
“Leibniz on Infinite Numbers, Infinite Wholes, and Corporeal Substances”
Adam Harmer, University of Toronto
10:45-11:55am
“Rationalism and the Foundational Role of Empirical Knowledge
within Wolff’s German Metaphysics”
Veronica Muriel, University of Pennsylvania
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