Program
Friday, May 17, 2019
1:30–2:00 pm | Coffee & Welcome |
Chair | Brandon Look |
2:00–3:30 pm | Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard): “Space, Monads, and Incompossibility” Comments: Sam Levey (Dartmouth College) |
3:30–3:45pm | Coffee Break |
3:45–5:15pm | Qiu Lin (Duke University): “Emilie du Chatelet on Space” Comments: John Hanson (University of Notre Dame/Harvard University) |
5:30–6:30pm | EC Business Meeting |
7:00pm | Dinner in the lobby of the Math and Science Building (conference building) |
Saturday, May 18, 2019
9:00–9:30am | Continental breakfast |
Chair | Martha Bolton |
9:30–11:00am | Julia Jorati (Ohio State University) “Leibniz’s Argument Against Slavery” Comments: Aleksandra Horowska (University Wrocław, Poland) |
11:00–11:15am | Coffee Break |
11:15am–12:45pm | Fiorenza Manzo (University of Salerno, Italy) “How sincere was Leibniz’s criticism of Hobbes’ political philosophy?” Comments: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University) |
12:45–2:15pm | Lunch break |
Chair | Julia Jorati |
2:15–3:45pm | Julian Waddell (University of Oxford): “Substance and Mechanism: Natural Philosophy Between Duns Scotus and Leibniz” Comments: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky) |
3:45–4:00pm | Coffee Break |
4:00–5:30pm | Juan Garcia Torres (Loyola Marymount University, LA), “Leibniz on Contingency as a Condition for Freedom and Explanation of Rational Action” Comments: Stephen Puryear (NCSU) |
5:45–7:00pm | Business meeting of the LSNA (open to all) |
7pm | Conference Dinner in the Lobby of PAIS (cross the street and walk down the hill to the Psychology Building to the right) |
Sunday, May 19, 2019:
8:30–9:00am | Continental breakfast |
Chair | Daniel Garber |
9:00–10:30am | Jan Levin Propach (LMU Munich, Germany): “Ideas are no Brute Facts” Comments: Tobias Flattery (Notre Dame) |
10:30–10:45am | Coffee Break |
10:45am–12:15pm | Seoyeong (Shauna) Kwag (Independent scholar), “The Deaf and the Other: Leibniz, Language, Paradigm Change” Comments: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University) |