14th Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America
University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference held virtually via Zoom
Contact John Whipple jwhipple@uic.edu to receive the Zoom link, and to be added to the email list to receive pre-circulated papers.
Conference Schedule
Saturday, November 7th
Session 1: 10-11:20
“Leibniz on the Order and Artifice in Reproduction”
Evangelian Collings (Pittsburgh)
Commentator: Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore)
Session 2: 11:30-12:50
“First Experiences and Ingredience in Leibniz’s Late Metaphysics”
Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Commentator: Paul Lodge (Oxford)
Saturday, December 5th
Session 1: 10-11:20
“Leibnizian Distance”
Jen Nguyen (Harvard)
Commentator: Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst)
Session 2: 11:30-12:50
“A Combinatorial Theory of Compossibility”
Jun Young Kim (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Commentator: Yual Chiek (St. John’s)
Saturday, January 16th
Session 1: 10-11:20
“Leibniz’s Conceptualism about Composition”
Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State)
Commenator: Brandon Look (Kentucky)
Session 2: 11:30-12:50
“God Can Do Otherwise: A Defense of Act Contingency in Leibniz’s Theodicy”
Dylan Flint (Ohio State)
Commentator: Chloe Armstrong (Lawrence)
Saturday, February 6th
Session 1: 10-11:20
“The Many Ways of Mirroring God: Leibniz on the imago Dei Thesis”
Julia Borcherding (Cambridge).
Commentator: Marleen Rozemond (Toronto)
Session 2: 11:30-12:50
“Leibniz’s Mediation between Hobbes and Plato in Leibniz’s Philosophy of Law”
Sören Hand (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Commentator: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory)
Saturday, February 27th
Session 1: 10-11:20
“Descriptive Completeness and Circular Multitudes”
Stefano Papa (University of Vienna)
Commentator: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth)
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