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
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”
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”
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”
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?”
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)
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)
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)
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”
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 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”
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)
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?”
