SEMPY

SEMPY

The Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale

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2010-2011 Schedule

December 17 12-2pm	Anat Schechtman “Descartes on Ontological Independence”
April 22 3-5pm	Alison Simmons (Harvard) “Leibniz on Consciousness”
April 8 2-4pm	Eric Guindon “The Antinomies of Pure Reason and the Neglected Alternative” Comments: Gilad Tanay
February 8 4-6pm LC 105	Stephen Darwall “Grotius at the Creation of Modern Moral Philosophy” Comments: Matthew Smith
May 6 3-5pm	Tom Feeney “Cartesian Circles and the Analytic Method” Comments: Anat Schechtman (Yale/Chicago)
November 3 3-5pm WLH 209	Matthew Stuart (Bowdoin College) “Locke on Qualities and Powers” Comments: Kelley Schiffman
October 22 3-5pm	Ken Winkler (Toronto) “The First Person in Vision” Comments: Aaron Norby
September 10 3-5pm	Ruth Boeker (St. Andrews/Yale) “Locke on Personal Identity: From the Forensic Term ‘Person’ to Consciousness” Comments: Alex Silverman

2016-2017 Schedule

2016/10/31 5:00-7:00 pm LC 203	Dan Kaufman (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Prince of the Nullibists”
2016/11/28 4:30-6:30 pm LC 210	Julia Borcherding (Yale) “ ‘Every feeling is the perception of a truth’: Moral Knowledge in Leibniz’s New Essays”
2016/12/08 4:00-6:00 pm LC 105	Ramona Winter (Yale/Berlin) “Solving Hume's Puzzle of the Human Subject”
2017/03/28 4:00-6:00 pm LC 203	Anat Schechtman (Wisconsin/Harvard) “Three Infinities in Early Modern Philosophy”
2017/04/21 4:00-6:00 pm LC 209	Lilli Alanen (Uppsala) “Descartes and Spinoza on the Love of God and the Highest Good”
2017/05/09 4:00-6:00 pm LC 209	Peter Myrdal (Turku) "The Reality of Motion and The Nature of Force"

2013-2014 Schedule

April 21 3-5 pm LC 213	Kelley Schiffman “The Real Rationalist/Sentimentalist Debate” Comments: Yuan Yuan
March 4 4-6 pm LC 103	Dominik Perler (HU Berlin) “Suarez on Consciousness”
December 11 3-5 pm LC 103	Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt/Harvard) Self-Knowledge and Political Rationalism. On the Rhetoric of Part One of Hobbes’ Leviathan”
December 4 5:30-7:30 pm LC 105	Daniel Putnam “The Geometry of the Rechtslehre”
February 24 3-5 pm LC 213	Paul Franks “ ‘Nothing comes from Nothing’: Judaism, the Orient, and Kabbalah in Hegel’s Reception of Spinoza” Comments: Zachary Gartenberg
May 6 3-5 pm LC 203	Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere/Yale) “Hume: There is Composition”
November 13 5:45-7:45 pm LC 105	Tom Feeney “The Imagination and Spinoza’s Modal Epistemology”
October 22 4-6 pm LC 206	Christian Barth (HU Berlin) “Leibniz on Phenomenal Consciousness” Comments: Chrissy Meijns (UCL/Yale)
October 30 5:45-7:45 pm LC 105	Don Garrett (NYU) “Hume’s Sense of Probability” Comments: Alex Silverman

2012-2013 Schedule

December 7 2:30-4:30pm LC 105	Sara Protasi “A History of Envy from Bacon to Kant”
April 12 4-6pm LC 203	Eileen O'Neil (UMass Amherst) “Cartesianism and the Gendered Mind” Co-sponsored with Minorities and Philosophy
April 26 3-5pm LC 203	Kelley Schiffman “A Fitting Account of Morality’s Practicality: The Early British Rationalists on Moral Motivation” Comments: Alex Worsnip
March 25 4-6pm LC 105	Cathay Liu (Yale-NUS) “Universals and Descartes’ Metaphysics of Numbers”
May 6 2-4pm LC 105	Rachel Cohon (SUNY Albany) “Moralizing a Social Practice: Hume’s Account of Promises and the “Wrong Party” Objection” Comments: Kelley Schiffman
November 16 3-5pm LC 203	Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Munich/Princeton) “Leibniz on the Dynamics of the Human Mind” Comments: Julia von Bodelschwingh
October 15 4-6pm LC 104	Scott Edgar “Hermann Cohen on Representing Individuals” Comments: Tyson Gofton (Toronto)
October 6-7	2012 Yale Leibniz Workshop
September 7 2-4 pm LC 204	Alex Silverman “What Parallelism Between the Attributes?: Spinoza on Ideas, Things, and Unions”

2007-2008 Schedule

February 21 4-6pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Bryan Garsten (Yale, Political Science) Religion and Representation in Hobbes
April 17 6-8pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Kenneth Winkler “Hume and the Sensible Qualities” (See also: Hume’s Treatise I.iv.4)
February 7 4-6pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Michael Della Rocca Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza
November 26 5:45-7:45pm TBA	Justin Broackes (Brown) Locke on Substance (Joint meeting with SEMPY and Working Group in Ancient Philosophy)
October 4 4-6pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	John Cottingham (Reading) “Plato’s sun and Descartes’ stove: contemplation and control in Cartesian philosophy” “The Role of God in Descartes’ Philosophy”
September 24 5:45-7:45m Connecticut Hall, room 104	David Miller “Inertial Deflections, Representations of Space, and the Conservation of Motion in Galileo’s Dialogue”

2011-2012 Schedule

November 18 3-5pm C 104	Matt Lindauer “Analysis and Doubt in Descartes’ Meditations” Comments: Tom Feeney
April 20 4-6pm C 104	Julia von Bodelschwingh “Leibniz on Divine Concurrence, Creaturely Actions, and the Author of Sin” Comments: Julia Borcherding
December 13 12-2pm C 104	Tim Yenter “Of the Indemonstrability of the Immateriality of the Soul in Hume’s Treatise” Comments: Kelley Schiffman
February 24 2-4pm C 104	Elliot Paul (Barnard/Columbia) “Cartesian Intuition” (Reception to follow)
January 27 2-4pm C 104	Sonny Elizondo “The Good, the Will, The Good Will” Comments: Paul Franks
March 23 2-4pm C 104	Brandon Look (Kentucky/Institute for Advanced Study) “Understanding the Amphiboly: Kant’s Critique of Leibniz” Comments: Kelley Schiffman & Sebastian Bender
May 4 2-4pm C 104	Tom Feeney “Leibniz on Uniformity and Continuity” Comments: Yual Chiek (Queens University/Yale)
November 4 2-4pm C 104	Alex Worsnip “Hobbes and Normative Egoism” Comments: Johan Olsthoorn (K.U. Leuven/Yale)
October 14 3-5pm C 104	Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) “Real Distinction, Separability, and Corporeal Substance in Descartes” (Reception to follow) Comments: Julia von Bodelschwingh
September 16 3:30-5:20pm LC 105	Edwin Curley (Michigan) “Dick Popkin’s (Truly Awful) Critique of Spinoza’s Contribution to Biblical Scholarship” (Reception to follow) Comments: Alex Silverman

2008-2009 Schedule

October 9 4-6pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere/Yale) “Hume’s Scepticism and Realism” Comments: Tim Yenter
April 24 10am-12pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Alan Nelson (UNC) “Descartes on Inference and Logic” (background reading: “Cartesian Innateness”)
April 28 11:30am-1:30pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Anat Schechtman (Yale) “Descartes’ Proof for the Existence of the Idea of God”
December 11 12-2pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Elliot Paul (Yale) “Clarity and Distinctness’ ”
February 13 2-4pm LC 208	Des Hogan (Princeton) “Noumenal Affection” ** please note the change of room
November 14 2:30-4:30 pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Anat Schechtman (Yale) “Descartes on the Metaphysics of Infinity” Comments: Mark Maxwell
October 31 2:30-4:30pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Omri Boehm (Yale) “Descartes’ Cogito and Kant’s Sublime” Comments: Alex Silverman
September 11 6-8pm Connecticut Hall, room 104	Andrew Chignell (Cornell) “Kant, Possibility, and the threat of Spinoza” Comments: Omri Boehm

2015-2016 Schedule

2015/10/03 4:00-6:00 pm WHC B-03	Stephen Darwall (Yale) "Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Leibniz" Comments: Julia Borcherding (Yale) and Matthew Leisinger (Yale)
2015/10/19 4:00-6:00 pm LC 105	Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam/Ghent) "The Astounding Afterlife of Cicero's Posidonian Argument: How Modern Science was Thought to Presuppose God" Comments: Daniel Moerner (Yale)
2015/11/02 4:00-6:00 pm LC 317	Justin D'Ambrosio (Yale) "Compossibility, Relations, and Truth"
2015/11/20 3:30-5:30 pm LC 209	Julie Walsh (Wellesley) "Malebranche and the Tension Between Virtue and Goodwill" Comments: Matthew Leisinger (Yale)
2016/02/03 1:30-3:30 pm TBA	Zachary Gartenberg (Yale) "Spinozistic Expression"
2016/03/07 4:30-6:30 pm LC 209	Carl Posy (Hebrew University) “Of Griffins and Horses: Mathematics and Metaphysics in Kant’s Critical Turn”
2016/03/30 1:30-3:30 pm 220 York Street, Room 100	Owen Pikkert (Toronto/Yale) "Explaining Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason"
2016/04/12 1:00-3:00 pm 212 York Street, Room 004A	Sarah Hutton (York) "Goodness in Anne Conway's Metaphysics"
2016/04/20 1:30-3:30 pm 220 York Street, Room 100	Alison McIntyre (Wellesley) “Contrary to Hutcheson - Not Contrary to Reason: Francis Hutcheson as one of Hume’s Opponents at Treatise 2.3.3.6”

2017-2018 Schedule

2017/08/31 4:00 PM-6:00 PM	Jason Yonover (Johns Hopkins)
2017/09/14 4:00 PM-6:00 PM	Piotr Szalek (Catholic Univ. of Lublin/Harvard)
2017/10/09 4:00 PM-6:00 PM	Dan Kaufman (Colorado)
2017/11/06 4:00 PM-6:00 PM	Lauren Kopajtic (Columbia)
2018/03/28 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM	Rory Phillips (Yale/Univ. College London)
2018/04/18 4:00 PM-6:00 PM	Marleen Rozemond (Toronto)

2018-2019 Schedule

2018/12/11 4:00-6:00 pm LC 206	Kathryn Tabb (Columbia) “Habituation and the Association of Ideas in Locke’s Developmental Psychology”
2019/02/18 4:00 LC 208	Philip Waldner (Klagenfurt/Yale) “Spinoza on the Forces of Law: A Political Perspective”
2019/03/05 4:00 PM-6:00 PM LC 208	Robert Matyasi (Toronto/Yale) “Spinoza on Composition”
2019/03/27 3:00-5:00 pm WLH 116	Jen Nguyen (Harvard) “Leibnizian Distance: Quantitative, Continuous, Measurable”
2019/04/15 4:00 PM-6:00 PM LC 206	Emily Thomas (Durham) “History of Philosophy and Pictures: Representations and Metaphysics of Time”
2019/04/23 4:00 PM-6:00 PM LC 209	Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio (Quebec/Yale) “The Indeterminacy of Intellectual Curiosity’s Object in Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature”
2019/04/29 4:00 PM-6:00 PM LC 204	Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins) and Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) “Ethica more logico demonstrata”

2019-2020 Schedule

2019/11/01 4:00 PM-6:00 PM LC 203	Vili Lähteenmäki (Helsinki/Harvard)
2020/01/31 4:00 PM-6:00 PM Location TBD	Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst)
2020/02/19 4:00 PM-6:00 PM Location TBD	Don Garrett (NYU)
2020/04/03 (CANCELLED)	Stephen Harrop (Yale)
2020/04/17 (CANCELLED)	Martin Lin (Rutgers)

2022-2023 Schedule

2022/10/25 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Clara Carus (Paderborn)
2022/11/1 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Jordan Lavender (Notre Dame)
2022/11/11 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Allison Aitken (Columbia)
2022/11/28 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Robert Stern (Yale/Sheffield)

2006-2007 Schedule

April 25 6:00-8:00pm	Michael Della Rocca "PSR" Note different day and time: Wednesday at 6:00pm in CT 104.
April 5	Martha Bolton "Descartes' Principle Attribute Thought"
December 7	Daniel Garber "Leibniz on Causation"
February 16 2:00-4:00pm	Han-Kyul Kim “Nominal Symmetry: Locke on Mind and Body” Note different day and time: Friday at 2:00pm in CT 104.
June 5-6	New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy
March 7 6:00-8:00pm	Ken Winkler “Continuous Creation” Note different day and time: Wednesday at 6:00pm in CT 104.
May 2	John Carriero “The Cartesian Circle and the Foundations of Knowledge” Note different day: Wednesday at 4:00pm in CT 104.
May 9 6:00-8:00pm	Elliot Paul "Certainty and Doubt: Practical and Metaphysical" Note different day and time: Wednesday at 6:00pm in CT 104.
October 26	Timothy Yenter "Climbing Out of the Abyss: Individuals in Spinoza"
September 24 5:45pm	David Miller "Inertial Deflections, Representations of Space, and the Conservation of Motion in Galileo's Dialogue"

2014-2015 Schedule

April 7 4:00-6:00pm LC 209	Keota Fields (UMass Dartmouth/Yale) Dan Garber (Princeton) Michael Della Rocca (Yale) “Berkeley’s Externalist Idealism”
December 10 4-6 pm TBA	Kenneth Winkler (Yale) “The Scope of Sensitive Knowledge” Comments: Matthew Leisinger (Yale)
February 10 4:00-6:00 pm TBA	Ruth Boeker (Melbourne) “Locke’s Sortal-Dependent Account of Identity”
March 31 4:00-6:00 pm LC 104	Christia Mercer (Columbia) “Seventeenth-Century Universal Sympathy: Stoicism, Platonism, Leibniz, and Conway”
May 1 2:00-6:00 pm LC 103	Dan Garber (Princeton), Michael Della Rocca (Yale) An afternoon of conversation about Spinoza, and how to do history of philosophy. Philosophical Superheroes?
November 10 5:30-7:30 pm LC 103	Ariane Schneck (HU Berlin/Princeton) “Descartes’ Conception of Personhood”
October 17-18 Faculty Room, Connecticut Hall	Locke Workshop Schedule
October 28 11 am-1 pm Faculty Room, CT Hall	Gideon Yaffe (Yale) “Mixing Labour”

2009-2010 Schedule

April 9 12:30-2:30pm WHC 208	Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews) “Moral Conflict in Kant’s Ethical Theory” *A joint session with the Working Group in Moral Philosophy Comments: Gilad Tanay
December 4 2-4pm	Abraham Anderson (Sarah Lawrence College) “The Objection of David Hume” Comments: Kelley Schiffman
February 5 12:30-2:30pm	Donald Baxter (University of Connecticut) “Hume’s Account of Duration: an Empiricist Successor to Descartes’s” Comments: Julia von Bodelschwingh
January 22 12:30-2:30pm	Timothy Yenter “The Adequacy Criterion of Demonstration in Hume” Comments: Zoltan Szabo
May 18-20	New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy
May 5 12-2pm	Johannes Haag (University of Potsdam) “Descartes on Freedom of the Will” Comments: Tom Feeney
November 3 3-5pm LC 209	Alex Silverman "Parallelism as Historical Convergence in Spinoza's Theory of Attributes" Comments: Michael Morgan (Indiana)
October 2 2-6:30pm	Speakers: Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard), Martin Lin (Rutgers), Michael Della Rocca A SEMPY-sponsored mini-conference Spinoza and Leibniz on Reason, Necessity, and Possibility.
September 11 2-4pm	Kenneth Winkler “Locke on Essence and the Social Construction of Kinds” Comments: Raul Saucedo