Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

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Speaker: Featured Invited Speaker: Margaret Atherton, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin

When: Feb 22, 2014 - 09:00am - 06:00pm

Where: SUB: Santa Ana A&B

 

Description:

Saturday 22 February

 Unless otherwise noted, all Seminar events will take place in

Santa Ana A & B of the UNM Student Union Building

(building #60 (M-16) on the UNM campus map).

 9-9:30am

Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:30am

“Why to Get Rid of the Small Flitting Images:

Descartes’s Optics and Some Medieval Theories of Vision”

Zita Toth, Fordham University

 10:40-11:55am

“Berkeley and Skepticism”

Margaret Atherton, University Wisconsin - Milwaukee

12-1:15pm

Lunch

1:15-2:15pm

“Descartes’s Extemporaneous Ethics in the Discourse on Method

Daniel Collette, University of South Florida

2:25-3:25pm

“Master in my own Domain: Leibniz on Voluntary Agency”

Julia Jorati, Ohio State University

3:30- 4pm

Coffee Break

4-5pm

“Hedonism and Natural Law in Locke’s Moral Philosophy”

Elliot Rossiter, University of Western Ontario

5:10-6:10pm

“Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Moral Sense Theory

and the Internalist Tradition”

Patricia Sheridan, University of Guelph

7-9pm

Conference Dinner (Location TBA)