- 2020
- EASTERN APA: The Philadelphia 201 Hotel, Philadelphia, PA (January 8–11, 2020)
- LSNA Group Session: Thursday, January 9, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
- Title: “The Guise of the Good in Leibniz”
- Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
- Speaker: Julia Jorati (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Commentator: Nabeel Hamid (Concordia University)
- 2019
- EASTERN APA: The Sheraton New York, Times Square, NY (January 7–10, 2019)
- LSNA Group Session: Tuesday, January 8, 5:15–7:15 p.m.
- Title: “The Pedagogical Character of Leibniz’s Grounding Arguments”
- Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
- Speaker: John Whipple (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Commentator: Julia Borcherding (New York University)
- 2018
- EASTERN APA: Savannah Convention Center, Savannah, GA (3 January–6 January, 2018)
- LSNA Group Session: Thursday, January 4, 2018, 5:15-7:15PM
- Title: “Phenomenalism and Monadic Aggregation”
- Chair: Owen Pikkert (Toronto)
- Speakers: Shane Duarte (Notre Dame), “Bodies, Aggregates, and Well-founded Phenomena in Leibniz,” Adam Harmer (UC-Riverside), “Leibniz on Discrete Quantity and Actual Parts,” and Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University), “The Being of Leibnizian Aggregates.”
- Commentator: Donald Rutherford (UC San Diego)
- 2017
- EASTERN APA: Washington Marriott, Wardman Park, Washington, D.C. (4 January – 7 January 2017)
- Friday, 6 January 2016
- Leibniz Society of North America, 11:15 -13:15.
- Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
- Speaker: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
- Title:”A Quibble over Words? Revisiting the Dispute between Leibniz and Arnauld Concerning Substance”
- Commentator: Julia Borcherding (Yale University)
- 2016
- EASTERN APA: Washington Marriott, Wardman Park, Washington, D.C. (6 January – 9 January 2016)
- Thursday, 7 January 2016
- Leibniz Society of North America, 17:15 – 19:15.
- Chair: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
- Speaker: Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard Universtiy)
- Title: “Leibniz on Infinite Analysis: Provable, Decidable, Contingent”
- Commentator: Thomas Feeney (University of St. Thomas)
- 2014
- EASTERN APA: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA (27-30 December 2014)
- Sunday, 28 December 2014
- Group Session GVIII-7, Leibniz Society of North America, 11:15 – 13:15.
- Chair:Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers University)
- Speaker: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
- Title: “Monads on my Mind”
- Commentator: Edward Glowienka (Carroll Collge)
- 2013
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Baltimore Waterfront, Baltimore, MD (27-30 December 2013)
- Sunday, 29 December 2013
- Group Session GVIII-6, Leibniz Society of North America, 11:15 – 13:15.
- Chair: Ursula Goldenbaum
- Speaker: Sukjae Lee (Seoul National University)
- Title: “Towards a New Reading of Leibnizian Appetites as Uneasiness”
- Commentator: Adam Harmer (University of Toronto)
- 2012
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Atlanta Marquis, Atlanta, GA (27-30 December 2012)
- Wednesday, 28 December 2011
- Group Session GVIII-911:15 – 13:15.
- Chair: TBA
- Speaker: Shane Duarte (Stanford University)
- Title: “Leibniz and Prime Matter”
- 2011
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC (27-30 December 2011)
- Wednesday, 28 December 2011
- Group Session 11:15 – 13:15.
- Chair: Christia Mercer (Columbia University)
- Speaker: Lea F. Schweitz (Lutheran School of Theology-Chicago)
- Topic: “Human Uniqueness, the Species Problem and the Image of God”
- Commentator: Ohad Nachtomy (Fordham University / Bar-Ilan University-Israel)
- 2010
- EASTERN APA: Marriott/Westin-Copley Connection, Boston, MA (27-30 December 2010)
- Monday, 28 December 2010
- Group Session 11:15 – 13:15
- Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers)
- Speaker: Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard University)
- Topic: “Monadic Teleology and Optimal Form”
- Commentators: Justin Smith (Concordia University); Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- 2009
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York (27-30 December 2009)
- Monday, 28 December 2009
- Group Session 11:15 – 13:15
- Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers)
- Speaker: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky, Lexington)
- Topic: “Leibniz on Simple Substances: Speaking in Metaphysical Rigor of Mind and World”
- Commentator: John Whipple (University of Illinois – Chicago)
- 2008
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA (27-30 December 2008)
- Sunday, 28 December 2008
- Group Session GIII – 5, 11:15AM – 1:15PM
- Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
- Speaker:Alan Nelson (University of North Caroline – Chapel Hill)
- Topic: “Monadology and the Cogito”
- Commentator: Timothy Crockett (Marquette University
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA (27-30 December 2008)
- 2007
- EASTERN APA: Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Washington, DC (27-30 December 2007)
- Saturday, 29 December 2007
- Group Session X (GX-6), 8:00 – 11:00 PM, Dover C (Third Floor)
- Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
- Speaker: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
- Topic: “Leibniz on the Relationship of God and the World”
- EASTERN APA: Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Washington, DC (27-30 December 2007)
- 2006
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC (27-30 December 2006)
- Friday, 29 December
- Group Session X-6, 7:00 – 10:30 PM, Virginia Suite B (Lobby Level)
- Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
- Speaker: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
- Topic: “Does Leibniz ask for Reason Light? Reflections on the Occasion of a New Interpretation of Leibniz”
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC (27-30 December 2006)
- 2005-2006
- EASTERN APA: Hilton New York, New York, New York (27- 30 December 2005)
- Wednesday, 28 December
- Group Session VI-4, 7:30 – 10:30 PM, Concourse B
- Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
- Speaker: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
- Topic: “Leibniz on the Ends of Motion”
- CENTRAL APA: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois (26 – 29 April 2006)
- Thursday, 27 April
- GIII-5, 7:30-1030 PM, Private Dining Room 5
- Leibniz Society of North America: Presentation of the winning essay in the 2005 LSNA Essay Contest
- Chair: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
- Speaker: Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normal Superiore – Pisa, Italy)
- Topic: “Leibniz’s Theory of Conditions: A Framework for Ontological Dependence”
- EASTERN APA: Hilton New York, New York, New York (27- 30 December 2005)
- 2004-2005
- Eastern Division: Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA (27-30 December 2004)
- Wednesday, 29 December
- Group Session VII 7:00 – 10:00 PM
- Leibniz Society of North America, Maine (Fifth Floor)
- Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
- Speaker: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshall College), “God’s Choice of the Best”
- CENTRAL APA: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois (April 27-30, 2005)
- Friday, 29 April
- Group Session ? 7:00 – 10:00 PM
- Leibniz Society of North America: Presentation of the winning essay in the 2004 LSNA Essay Contest
- Chair: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
- Speaker: Stephen Puryear (University of Pittsburgh). “Was Leibniz Confused about Confusion?”
- Eastern Division: Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA (27-30 December 2004)
- 2003-2004
- Eastern Division (Washingto, D. C.)
- Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
- Speaker: Patrick Riley (Harvard University and University of Wisconsin – Madison), “Leibniz’s Meditation on the Common Concept of Justice: 1703-2003)
- Central (Chicago)
- Chair: Jan Cover (Purdue University)
- Speaker 1: Jack Davidson (Iowa State University), “Leibniz on Freedom and Sin: Two Early Texts” [winner of the 2003 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
- Speaker 2: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshal College), “Moral Necessity”
- Commentator: Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
- Eastern Division (Washingto, D. C.)
- 2002-2003
- Eastern Division (Philadelphia)
- Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
- Speaker: Gregory Brown (University of Houston), “On Measuring the Perfection of Possible Worlds”
- Pacific Division (San Francisco)
- Chair: Timoth Crockett (University of California – Berkely)
- Speaker: Dennis Plaisted (Rochester Institute of Technology), “On Leibniz’s Argument for Primitive Concepts” [winner of the 2002 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
- Commentator: Alan Nelson (University of California – Irvine)
- Central Division (Cleveland)
- Chair: Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University, – Mansfield)
- Speaker: Justin Smith (Miami University – Ohio), “Leibniz on Being Embodied”
- Commentator: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University)
- Eastern Division (Philadelphia)
- 2001-2002
- Eastern Division (Atlanta)
- Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
- Speaker: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago), “Leibniz and Idealism”
- Pacific Division (Seattle)
- Chair: Kenneth Clatterbaugh (University of Washington – Seattle
- Speaker: Michael Futch (Augusta State University), “Leibniz on Plenitude, Infinity, and the Eternity of the World” [winner of the 2001 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
- Commentator: Gregory Brown (University of Houston)
- Central Division (Chicago)
- Chair: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshal College)
- Speaker: George Gale (University of Missouri – Kansas City), “The Best of All Possible Physics: Tracing Some Interactions among Metaphysical Perfection, Physical Optimality, and Method in Physics”
- Commentator: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh)
- Eastern Division (Atlanta)
- 2000-2001
- Eastern Division (New York)
- Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
- Speaker: Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University), “Why Leibniz Wouldn’t, Couldn’t, and Shouldn’t Endorse Phenomenalism”
- Pacific Division (San Francisco)
- Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
- Speaker: Maria Rosa Antognazza (University of Aberdeen), “Trinity and Incarnation: The Relationship between Philosophy and Revealed Theology in Leibniz’s Thought” [winner of the 2000 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
- Commentator: Michael Griffin (Wake Forest University)
- Central Division (Minneapolis), Joint Session with the North American Kant Society
- Chair: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
- Speaker 1: Donald Rutherford (University of California – San Diego), “Kant and Leibniz on the Principle of Succession”
- Speaker 2: Rae Langton (University of Edinburgh), “Mirrors and Windows: Kant and Leibniz on the Limits of Perception”
- Eastern Division (New York)
- 1999-2000
- Eastern Division (Boston)
- Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
- Speaker: Catherine Wilson (University of British Columbia), “Plentitude and Compossibility”
- Pacific Division (Albuqerque)
- Chair: Donald Rutherford (University of California – San Diego)
- Speaker 1: Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv University), “Leibniz: Polemics & Epistemological Pluralism”
- Speaker 2: Franklin Perkins (Pennsylvania State University), “Ideas and Self-Reflection” [sinner of the 1999 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
- Commentator: Nicholas Jolley (Syracuse University)
- Central Division (Chicago)
- Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
- Speaker: “Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachusetts – Amherst), “Leibniz’s Theodicy”
- Eastern Division (Boston)
- 1998-1999
- Eastern Division (Washington, D.C.): Joint Session with the North American Spinoza Society
- Chair: Paul J. Bagley
- Speaker 1: Mark Kulstad (Rice University), “Leibniz, Spinoza, Tschirnhaus: Philosophical Relations 1675-1676”
- Speaker 2: Christia Mercer (Columbia University), “Spinoza and Leibniz on Substance and Mode”
- Commentator: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
- Pacific Division (Berkeley)
- Chair: John Carriero (University of California – Los Angeles
- Speaker: Paul Lodge (Tulane University), “The Failure of Leibniz’s Correspondence with De Volder” [winner of the 1998 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
- Central Division (New Orleans)
- Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
- Speaker: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College), “Structure and Reality in Leibniz’s Metaphysics”
- Eastern Division (Washington, D.C.): Joint Session with the North American Spinoza Society
- 1997-1998
- Eastern Division (Philadelphia)
- Chair: Robert Adams (Yale University)
- Speaker: Richard Arthur (Middlebury College), “Infinite Aggregates and Phenomenal Wholes”
- Pacific Division (Los Angeles)
- Chair: Alan Nelson (University of California – Irvine
- Speaker: Allison Coudert (Arizona State University), “Leibniz and the Kabbalah”
- Central Division (Chicago)
- Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
- Speaker: Laurence Carlin (Rice University), “Infinite Accumulations and Pantheistic Implications: Leibniz and the Anima Mundi” [winner of the 1997 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
- Commentator: Gregory Brown (University of Houston)
- Eastern Division (Philadelphia)
- 1996-1997
- Eastern Division (Atlanta)
- Chair: Robert M. Adams (Yale University)
- Speaker: Alison Simmons (Harvard University), “Descartes and Leibniz: Sensing Bodies”
- Pacific Division
- Chair: Donald Rutherford (Emory University)
- Speaker: Nicholas Jolley (University of California – San Diego), “Causality and Creation in Leibniz.
- Central Division
- Chair: Jan Cover (Purdue University)
- Speaker: Paul Lodge (Rutgers University), “When Did Leibniz Adopt the Preestablished Harmony?”
- Commentator: Christia Mercer (Columbia Unviersity)
- Eastern Division (Atlanta)
- 1995-1996
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University), “The Nominalist Argument of the New Essays”
- Pacific Division (Seattle)
- Chair: Kenneth Clatterbaugh
- Alan Nelson, “Indiscernibility Arguments in the Clarke Correspondence”
- Central Division (Chicago)
- Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
- Speaker 1: E. M. Curley (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor), “Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus”
- Speaker 2: Christia Mercer (Columbia University), “Leibniz, Spinoza and the Ethics”
- Eastern Division
- 1994-1995
- Easter Division (Boston)
- Chair: Robert M. Adams (Yale University)
- Speaker: Gary Hatfield, “Was the Scientific Revolution a Revolution in Philosophy?”
- Pacific Division (San Francisco)
- Chair: Janet Broughton
- Speaker 1: Paul Hoffman
- Speaker 2: Michal Murray (Franklin and Marshall College), “Intellect, Will, and Freedom in Leibniz”
- Central Division (Chicago)
- Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
- Speaker 1: Fabrizio Mondadori
- Speaker 2: Donald L.M. Baxter, “Corporeal Substand and True Unities”
- Easter Division (Boston)
- 1993-1994
- Easter Division (Atlanta)
- Chair: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachussets – Amherst)
- Speaker: John Carriero, “Physics, Theology and Contingency in Leibniz”
- Pacific Division (Los Angeles)
- Chair: Nicholas Jolley (Univeristy of California – San Diego)
- Speaker 1: Michael Latzer, “Leibniz’s Conception of Metaphysical Evil”
- Speaker 2: Marleen Rozemond, (Kansas State University) “Descartes and Leibniz on Composite Substances”
- Central Division (Chicago)
- Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
- Speaker: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin – Madison), “Choosing a Theodicy: The Leibniz-Malebrtanche-Arnauld Connection”
- Commentator: Allison Laywine
- Easter Division (Atlanta)
- 1992-1993
- Eastern Division (Washington, D. C.)
- Chair: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachussets – Amherst)
- Speaker: Donald Rutherford (Emory University), “The Status of Corporeal Substance in Leibniz’s Later Philosophy”
- Commentator: Catherine Wilson
- Pacific Division
- Chair: Jill Buroker
- Speaker: Donald Rutherford (Emory University), “Leibniz and the Problem of Soul-Body Union”
- Commentator: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachussets – Amherst)
- Central Division (Chicago)
- Chair: Michael Latzer
- Speaker: Michael Murray, “Leibniz on Divine Foreknowledge of Future Contingents and Human Freedom”
- Commentator: Fred Freddoso
- Eastern Division (Washington, D. C.)
- 1990-1991
- Eastern Division (Boston)
- Chair: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachussets – Amherst)
- Speaker: Christia Mercer (University of California – Irvine), “Putting Mind to Matter: Leibniz’s Early Conception of Substance”
- Central Division (Chicago)
- Chair: Steven Voss
- Speaker: Alex Byrne, “Leibniz on Personal Identity”
- Commentator: E. M. Curley (University of Illinois – Chicago)
- Eastern Division (Boston)
- 1989-1990
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Catherine Wilson, “Leibniz and the Animalcula”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: Emily Grosholz, “Was Leibniz a Mathematical Revolutionary?”
- Central Division
- Speaker: Reginald Savage, “The Problem of Counterfactual Propositions in the Philosophy of Leibniz”
- Eastern Division
- 1988-1989
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Robert M. Adams (University of California – Los Angeles), “Form and Matter in Leibniz”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (Univesity of Massachussets – Amherst), “More Light on the Arnauld Correspondence; Texts and Commentary”
- Central Division
- Speaker: Reginald Savage, “Contingency, Incompossibility, and God’s Little Infinite Creatures: An Essay on Leibniz’s Doctrine of Freedom”
- Eastern Division
- 1987-1988
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: François Duchesneau, “Leibniz on Architectonic Principles and Analysis”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (Univesity of Massachussets – Amherst), “More Light on the Arnauld Correspondence: Texts and Commentary”
- Central Division
- Speaker: Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers Unviversity), “Knowledge of Necessary Truths in the New Essays“
- Eastern Division
- 1986-1987
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Hidé Ishiguro, “Did Leibniz believe in an Infinitesimal Magnitude?”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: Gregory Brown (University of Houston), “Leibniz’s Theodicy and the Confluence of Worldly Goods”
- Central Division
- Speaker: Roger Ariew, “Leibniz’s Protogaea”
- Eastern Division
- 1985-1986
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: E. M. Curley (University of Illinois – Chicago), “The Origins of Leibniz’s Theory of Truth”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: Glenn Hartz (Ohilo State University – Mansfield) & Jan Cover (Purdue University), “Space and Time in the Leibnizian Metaphysic”
- Central Division
- Speaker: John Earman (University of Minnesota), “Leibniz’s Theory of Time and Space”
- Eastern Division
- 1984-1985
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Margaret Wilson (Princeton University), “The Phenomenalism of Leibniz and Berkeley”
- Central Division
- Speaker: Fabrizio Mondadori, “Plainly Essential and Individuating Essential Properties”
- Eastern Division
- 1983-1984
- Eastern Division
- Robert Sleigh (University of Massachussets – Amherst), “Substance in the Discourse and the Correspondence with Arnauld”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: “Catherine Wilson, “Leibnizian Optimism
- Central Division
- Speaker: Glen Hartz (Ohio State University – Mansfield), “Launching a Materialist Ontology: The Leibnizian Way”
- Eastern Division
- 1981-1982
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Jonathan Bennett (Syracuse University), “The Remnant and Bennett Translation of the New Essays”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: Kenneth Clatterbaugh, “Malebranche and Leibniz on Occasionalism”
- Commentator: Craig Walton
- Central Division
- Speaker: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago), “Mind, Body, and the Laws of Nature in Descartes and Leibniz”
- Commetator: Peter Machamer
- Eastern Division
- 1980-1981
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Fred Sommers, “Leibniz and Logical Syntax”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: Mark Kulstad (Rice University), “Apperception and a Puzzle Concerning the Drafts of Section 4 of the Principles of Nature and of Grace”
- Central Division
- Speaker: Louis Loeb, “Leibniz and Rationalism”
- Eastern Division
- 1979-1980
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Jeffrey Tlumak, “Leibniz on Contingency”
- Central Division
- Speaker: Robert Adams (University of California – Los Angeles), “Leibniz on Corporeal Substance”
- Commentator: Louis Loeb
- Eastern Division
- 1978-1979
- Eastern Division
- Speaker: Robert McRae, “Time and the Monad”
- Pacific Division
- Speaker: Nicholas Jolley, “Monads, Minds and Memory”
- Commentator: Peter Remnant
- Central Division
- Speaker: Ignazio Angelelli, “The Classical Ontology of Relations and Leibniz”
- Commentator: Mark Kulstad (Rise University)
- Eastern Division