SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE LEIBNIZ SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
SEPTEMBER, 26-28, 2008
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
SCHEDULE
Friday, September 26
3:30 PM
Reception
3:45-5:00 PM
“A Last Shot at Leibniz’s Doctrine of the Reality and Reducibility of Relations”
Anja Jauering, University of Notre Dame
5:15-6:30 PM
“Leibniz on the Relativity and Phenomenality of Motion: 1677-1695”
Stephen Puryear, North Carolina State University
6:30 PM
Cocktails
Saturday, September 27
8:00-9:00 AM Coffee
9:00-10:15 AM
“Leibniz on Machines of Nature from a Physiological Viewpoint”
François Duschesneau, Université de Montréal
10:30-11:45 AM
“Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines or What it Means ‘to remain in the least of its parts’”
Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan University
12:00-1:15 PM
“A Role for Physiology in the Development of Leibniz’s Mature Metaphysics?”
Justin Smith, Concordia University
1:15-2:15 PM Lunch
2:15-3:30 PM
“Leibniz and Nominal Definition”
Christian Leduc, Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
3:45-5:00 PM
“Leibniz’s Two Definitions of Perception”
Evelyn Vargas, University of La Plata
5:15-6:45 PM Symposium
“One System or Many: the Problems of Leibniz’s Monadology. (Commentary on Pauline Phemister, Leibniz and the Natural World and Glenn Hartz, Leibniz’s Final System)”
Catherine Wilson, Graduate Center, CUNY
Remarks
Pauline Phemister, University of Edinburgh
Glenn Hartz, Ohio State University
6:30 PM Dinner
Sunday, September 28
8:00-9:00 AM Coffee
9:00-10:15 AM
“Why Bundles of Modes are Not Substances: Leibniz’s Criticism of Occasionalism as Spinozism”
Sukjae Lee, Ohio State University
10:30-11:45 AM
“Leibniz and the Puzzle of Incompossibility: The Packing Strategy”
Jeff McDonough, Harvard University
12:00-1:15 PM
“Leibniz and the Denunciation of a 17th Century ‘Axis of Evil’”
Mark Kulstad, Rice University
The conference will meet in Marx Hall on the Princeton University campus. A block of rooms is reserved at the Hyatt Hotel, 102 Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ 08540, 609-987-1234. Rooms must be booked by September 4th to receive the conference rate. Shuttle transportation from the hotel to the Princeton University campus will be provided.
For more information, write to Dan Garber, dgarber@princeton.edu or Martha Bolton, mbolton@rci.rutgers.edu.
Support from the Princeton Philosophy Department and the Humanities Council of Princeton University is gratefully acknowledged.