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)