15th Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America
University of Kentucky
Conference held virtually via Zoom.
Organizer: Brandon Look (look@uky.edu)
Conference Schedule
All times are US Eastern Standard Time
November 6, 2021
11:00-12:20
Michael Hansen (BYU), “Point of View in Leibnizian Perception”
Commentator: Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State)
12:30-1:50
James Mackey (Western Ontario), “Leibniz and the Problem of Personal Identity”
Commentator: Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst)
2:00-3:20
Nicholas Birmingham (Western Ontario), “Fiction, Symbol, Infinitesimal: The Leibnizian Concepts of Transcendental Philosophy”
Commentator: Caterina Marinelli (Rome)
December 11, 2021
11:00-12:20
Alessandro Becchi (Florence), “Natural Machines and Contingent Truths in Leibniz”
Commentator: Arnaud Pelletier (Brussels)
12.30–1.50
Fatema Amijee (British Columbia), “Leibniz and Du Châtelet on Substance and Sufficient Reason”
Commentator: Anne-Lise Rey (Paris-Nanterre)
2.00–3.20
Laura Pelegrín (Diego Portales), “Natorp’s Early Reading of Leibniz”
Commentator: Brandon Look (Kentucky)
January 22, 2022
11.00–12.20
Åsne Grøgaard (Oxford), “The Unimportance of Hope in Leibniz’s Philosophy”
Commentator: Donald Rutherford (UC San Diego)
12.30–1.50
Keynote: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory), “Leibniz and Locke on Natural Equality of Human Beings”
Commentator: Julia Borcherding (Cambridge)
2.00–3.20
Business Meeting
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