5th Annual New York City Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
March 7-8, 2015
Saturday 3/7
8:45 – 9:15: Continental Breakfast and Welcome
Session 1
Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
9:15 – 10:30: Alan Gabbey (Columbia/Barnard)
“Impenetrability, the Virgin Birth, and Miracles: Descartes and Others”
10:45 – 11:30: Elliot Paul (Columbia/Barnard)
“Clear and Distinct Perception”
11:45 – 12:30: Fabrizio Baldassarri (Parma)
“Between Dead and Living Bodies: Rethinking Descartes’ Sciences of Life”
12:30 – 2:00: Lunch Break
Session 2
Chair: Dominic Balestra (Fordham)
2:00 – 2:45: Abel Franco (California State University, Northridge)
“Descartes’ Dog: A Clock with Passions?”
3:00 – 3:45: Kristin Primus (NYU)
“Spinoza and the Second Meditation”
Session 3
Chair: TBD
4:15 – 5:00: Justin Steinberg (CUNY, Brooklyn College)
“Spinoza and the Political Absolute”
5:15 – 6:30: Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study)
“Spinoza’s View of Revolution”
6:30 Reception
Sunday 3/8
Session 1
Chair: TBD
8:45 – 9:30: Daniel Cook (CUNY, Brooklyn College)
“Leibniz, China, and the Problem of Pagan Wisdom”
9:45 – 10:15: Eric Stencil (Utah Valley University) and Julie Walsh (Université du Québec à Montréal)
“The Protestant and the Pelagian: Arnauld and Malebranche on Grace”
Session 2
Chair: TBD
10:45 – 11:30: Jessica Gordon-Roth (CUNY, Lehman College)
“Anne Finch Conway on Species”
11:45 – 12:30: Wilson Underkuffler (University of South Florida)
“Inferences, Objects and the Principle of Non-Contradiction: Understanding Hume’s Adequacy Principle in its Contemporary Scottish Philosophical Context”
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch Break
Session 3
Chair: Andrew Chignell (Cornell)
2:00 – 2:45 Dai Heide (Simon Fraser)
“Kant on Cosmological Unity and the Unity of Space”
3:00 – 4:15 Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU)
“Kant on ‘I’ and Persons”
Please note that the schedule may be subject to change
CALL FOR PAPERS
7th Annual New York City Workshop
in Early Modern Philosophy
Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus
12th Floor Lounge
May 13-14, 2017
Keynote Speakers:
François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal)
Christia Mercer (Columbia)
Anja Jauernig (NYU)
The workshop aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy. We welcome presentations of papers on any topic in early modern philosophy (roughly covering the period 1600-1800).
Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com no later than January 15, 2017.
Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus is located on the western side of Manhattan at 60th Street and Columbus Avenue, about two blocks from Columbus Circle at the southwest corner of Central Park. More details about the program, accommodation options, and other practical matters will be made available On This Website.
Conference Organizers:
Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan (ohadnachtomy@mac.com)
Reed Winegar, Fordham (bwinegar@fordham.edu)
The workshop, which is now in its 9th year, aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy. This year’s workshop will focus on the topic of “Freedom and Evil” in Early Modern Philosophy (roughly the period from 1600-1800).
We welcome submissions on the conference topic, which may be broadly construed to include the problem of free will, theodicy, political and social liberty, and evil practices and institutions. For consideration, please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com no later than December 31, 2018.
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The workshop, which is now in its 10th year, aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy. This year’s workshop will focus on the topic of “Mind, Body, Passion” in Early Modern Philosophy (roughly the period from 1600-1800).
We welcome submissions on the conference topic, which may be broadly construed to include mind-body identity, mind-body interaction, embodiment, philosophy of emotion, aesthetics, etc. For consideration, please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com no later than December 31, 2019.
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Our 12th annual workshop will take place entirely on-line. The workshop will focus on the topic of “Expanding the Early Modern Canon.” We are calling for papers on figures, topics, texts, and genres that have been standardly neglected within the study of early modern philosophy; e.g., women philosophers, philosophy of education, letters, and novels.
Please submit anonymized abstracts of 250-500 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com by April 1st, 2022.
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Details
The workshop, which is now in its 12th year, aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy (roughly the period from 1600-1800). This year’s workshop will be entirely online. We are calling for papers on figures, topics, texts, and genres that have been standardly neglected within the study of Early Modern Philosophy (e.g., women philosophers, philosophy of education, letters, and novels).
Please submit anonymized abstracts of 250-500 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com by April 1st, 2022.
We are seeking submissions for our 14th annual conference hosted in Spring, 2024.
Send abstracts to newyorkcityearlymodern [at] gmail.com by December 8, 2023.
https://philevents.org/event/show/114750