16th Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America
Princeton University
(in-person)
October 21-23, 2022
Organizers: Brandon Look (look@uky.edu) and Dan Garber (dgarber@princeton.edu)
Conference Schedule
All times are US Eastern Standard Time
Friday, October 21st
1:00-2:30pm
Aleksandra Horowska (University of Wrocław), “Do Animals Have Any Rights? The Leibnizian Perspective”
Comment: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
2:45-4:15pm
Mike Hansen (Brigham Young University), “Mills, Cheese, and Worms in Leibnizian Perception”
Comment: Stewart Duncan (University of Florida)
4:30-6:00pm
Qiu Lin (Duke University), “A Different Monadology: Du Châtelet on Monads, Bodies, and Sensory Impression”
Comment: Clara Carus (Paderborn University)
6:30pm
Reception
Saturday, October 22nd
9:00-10:30am
Filippo Costantini (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice/McMaster), “Leibniz’s Abstractionist Approach to Quantity”
Comment: Noa Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
10:45am-12:15pm
Jen Nguyen (Harvard University), “Leibniz’s Comparativism about Quantity”
Comment: John Whipple (University of Illinois-Chicago)
12:15-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-3:00pm
Vincenzo De Risi (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), “The Genesis of Relationism: Leibniz’s Early Theory of Space and Newton’s Scholium”
Comment: Michael Futch (University of Tulsa)
3:15-4:45pm
Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University), “Did Leibniz Escape the Labyrinth of the Continuum?”
Comment: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth University)
5:00-6:00pm
Business Meeting
6:30pm
Dinner
Sunday, October 23rd
9:00-10:30am
Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge), “The Power of Love and the Force of Reason: Leibniz and Du Châtelet on the Foundations of Morality”
Comment: Andrew Janiak (Duke University)
10:45am-12:15pm
Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (University of California-Davis), “Faculty Monism in Leibniz, Wolff, and Baumgarten: How to Best Deny the Distinction Between Perception and Thought”
Comment: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
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