New York City Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, February 9-10, 2013
Saturday, February 9th
8:45 – Coffee and light Breakfast
9:30 – 11:15 Chair: Christopher Gowans, (Fordham)
Justin Smith (Concordia and Paris 7): Leibniz on Singular Things
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford): Leibniz on Substance in the Discourse on Metaphysics
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 1:00 Chair: Dominic Balestra (Fordham)
Igor Agostini (Università del Salento): Descartes’ Idea of God
Julia Reed (Harvard): Descartes' Distinction between the Infinite and the Indefinite
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Chair: Don Garrett (NYU)
Kristin Primus (Princeton): A New Look at Causation in Spinoza’s Ethics
Andrea Sangiacomo (ENS Lyon): The Challenge of Causality: the Rise of Occasionalism and the Establishment of the New Natural Philosophy
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:15 Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Barnaby Hutchins (Ghent): The (Missing) Foundation of Life in Descartes’ Physiology
Julie Walsh (Université du Québec à Montréal): Sensing What We Should Only Imagine: Sangfroid in Malebranche’s Method and Metaphysics
5:30 – Reception
6:30 – Dinner
Sunday, February 10th
8:45 – Coffee and light breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 Chair: TBA
Anne-Lise Rey (IAS and Lille): The Epistemological Invention in the 18th Century: A Leibniz-Newton Synthesis
Desmond Hogan (Princeton): Kant and Middle Knowledge
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 Chair: Reed Winegar (Fordham)
Marius Stan (Boston College): Leibniz and Kant on the Relativity of Motion
Patrick Connolly (UNC): Locke and the Laws of Nature
12:45 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Chair: Justin Steinberg (CUNY)
Sandra Field (Yale): Two Errors of Absolutism: Hobbes and Spinoza
Patricia Sheridan (Guelph): The Moral Sense of Locke's Internalism
All events take place on the 12th floor Lounge at the Lowenstein building, located on the corner of Columbus (9th) Avenue and 60th street (just one block west of Columbus Circle). The Workshop is open to the public. Anyone interested in Early Modern Philosophy is welcome. Please mention the workshop to pass security.
Financial support for the Workshop is provided (in equal parts) by the Philosophy Department and the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. For any further inquiries please contact Ohad Nachtomy (
ohadnachotmy@mac.com).
