Leibniz Conference at Emory University, Atlanta, May 17–19, 2019

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)

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