Leibnitiana

Past APA Group Session Meetings of the Leibniz Society of North America

2017
- EASTERN APA: Washington Marriott, Wardman Park, Washington, D.C. (4 January - 7 January 2017)
- Friday, 6 January 2016
- Leibniz Society of North America, 11:15 -13:15.
  - Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
  - Speaker: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
  - Title:"A Quibble over Words? Revisiting the Dispute between Leibniz and Arnauld Concerning Substance"
  - Commentator: Julia Borcherding (Yale University)
2016
- EASTERN APA: Washington Marriott, Wardman Park, Washington, D.C. (6 January - 9 January 2016)
- Thursday, 7 January 2016
- Leibniz Society of North America, 17:15 - 19:15.
  - Chair: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
  - Speaker: Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard Universtiy)
  - Title: "Leibniz on Infinite Analysis: Provable, Decidable, Contingent"
  - Commentator: Thomas Feeney (University of St. Thomas)
2014
- EASTERN APA: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA (27-30 December 2014)
- Sunday, 28 December 2014
- Group Session GVIII-7, Leibniz Society of North America, 11:15 - 13:15.
  - Chair:Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers University)
  - Speaker: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
  - Title: "Monads on my Mind"
  - Commentator: Edward Glowienka (Carroll Collge)
2013
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Baltimore Waterfront, Baltimore, MD (27-30 December 2013)
- Sunday, 29 December 2013
- Group Session GVIII-6, Leibniz Society of North America, 11:15 - 13:15.
  - Chair: Ursula Goldenbaum
  - Speaker: Sukjae Lee (Seoul National University)
  - Title: "Towards a New Reading of Leibnizian Appetites as Uneasiness"
  - Commentator: Adam Harmer (University of Toronto)
2012
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Atlanta Marquis, Atlanta, GA (27-30 December 2012)
- Wednesday, 28 December 2011
- Group Session GVIII-911:15 - 13:15.
  - Chair: TBA
  - Speaker: Shane Duarte (Stanford University)
  - Title: "Leibniz and Prime Matter"
2011
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC (27-30 December 2011)
- Wednesday, 28 December 2011
- Group Session 11:15 - 13:15.
  - Chair: Christia Mercer (Columbia University)
  - Speaker: Lea F. Schweitz (Lutheran School of Theology-Chicago)
  - Topic: "Human Uniqueness, the Species Problem and the Image of God"
  - Commentator: Ohad Nachtomy (Fordham University / Bar-Ilan University-Israel)
2010
- EASTERN APA: Marriott/Westin-Copley Connection, Boston, MA (27-30 December 2010)
- Monday, 28 December 2010
- Group Session 11:15 - 13:15
  - Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers)
  - Speaker: Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard University)
  - Topic: "Monadic Teleology and Optimal Form"
  - Commentators: Justin Smith (Concordia University); Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen, UK)
2009
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York (27-30 December 2009)
- Monday, 28 December 2009
- Group Session 11:15 - 13:15
  - Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers)
  - Speaker: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky, Lexington)
  - Topic: "Leibniz on Simple Substances: Speaking in Metaphysical Rigor of Mind and World"
  - Commentator: John Whipple (University of Illinois - Chicago)
2008
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA (27-30 December 2008)
  - Sunday, 28 December 2008
  - Group Session GIII - 5, 11:15AM - 1:15PM
    - Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
    - Speaker:Alan Nelson (University of North Caroline - Chapel Hill)
    - Topic: "Monadology and the Cogito"
    - Commentator: Timothy Crockett (Marquette University
2007
- EASTERN APA: Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Washington, DC (27-30 December 2007)
  - Saturday, 29 December 2007
  - Group Session X (GX-6), 8:00 - 11:00 PM, Dover C (Third Floor)
    - Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
    - Speaker: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
    - Topic: "Leibniz on the Relationship of God and the World"
2006
- EASTERN APA: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC (27-30 December 2006)
  - Friday, 29 December
  - Group Session X-6, 7:00 - 10:30 PM, Virginia Suite B (Lobby Level)
    - Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
    - Speaker: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
    - Topic: "Does Leibniz ask for Reason Light? Reflections on the Occasion of a New Interpretation of Leibniz"
2005-2006
- EASTERN APA: Hilton New York, New York, New York (27- 30 December 2005)
  - Wednesday, 28 December
  - Group Session VI-4, 7:30 - 10:30 PM, Concourse B
    - Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
    - Speaker: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
    - Topic: "Leibniz on the Ends of Motion"
- CENTRAL APA: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois (26 - 29 April 2006)
  - Thursday, 27 April
  - GIII-5, 7:30-1030 PM, Private Dining Room 5
    - Leibniz Society of North America: Presentation of the winning essay in the 2005 LSNA Essay Contest
    - Chair: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
    - Speaker: Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normal Superiore - Pisa, Italy)
    - Topic: "Leibniz's Theory of Conditions: A Framework for Ontological Dependence"
2004-2005
- Eastern Division: Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA (27-30 December 2004)
  - Wednesday, 29 December
  - Group Session VII 7:00 - 10:00 PM
    - Leibniz Society of North America, Maine (Fifth Floor)
    - Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
    - Speaker: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshall College), "God's Choice of the Best"
- CENTRAL APA: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois (April 27-30, 2005)
  - Friday, 29 April
  - Group Session ? 7:00 - 10:00 PM
    - Leibniz Society of North America: Presentation of the winning essay in the 2004 LSNA Essay Contest
    - Chair: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
    - Speaker: Stephen Puryear (University of Pittsburgh). "Was Leibniz Confused about Confusion?"
2003-2004
- Eastern Division (Washingto, D. C.)
  - Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
  - Speaker: Patrick Riley (Harvard University and University of Wisconsin - Madison), "Leibniz's Meditation on the Common Concept of Justice: 1703-2003)
- Central (Chicago)
  - Chair: Jan Cover (Purdue University)
  - Speaker 1: Jack Davidson (Iowa State University), "Leibniz on Freedom and Sin: Two Early Texts" [winner of the 2003 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
  - Speaker 2: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshal College), "Moral Necessity"
  - Commentator: Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)
2002-2003
- Eastern Division (Philadelphia)
  - Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
  - Speaker: Gregory Brown (University of Houston), "On Measuring the Perfection of Possible Worlds"
- Pacific Division (San Francisco)
  - Chair: Timoth Crockett (University of California - Berkely)
  - Speaker: Dennis Plaisted (Rochester Institute of Technology), "On Leibniz's Argument for Primitive Concepts" [winner of the 2002 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
  - Commentator: Alan Nelson (University of California - Irvine)
- Central Division (Cleveland)
  - Chair: Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University, - Mansfield)
  - Speaker: Justin Smith (Miami University - Ohio), "Leibniz on Being Embodied"
  - Commentator: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University)
2001-2002
- Eastern Division (Atlanta)
  - Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
  - Speaker: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago), "Leibniz and Idealism"
- Pacific Division (Seattle)
  - Chair: Kenneth Clatterbaugh (University of Washington - Seattle
  - Speaker: Michael Futch (Augusta State University), "Leibniz on Plenitude, Infinity, and the Eternity of the World" [winner of the 2001 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
  - Commentator: Gregory Brown (University of Houston)
- Central Division (Chicago)
  - Chair: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshal College)
  - Speaker: George Gale (University of Missouri - Kansas City), "The Best of All Possible Physics: Tracing Some Interactions among Metaphysical Perfection, Physical Optimality, and Method in Physics"
  - Commentator: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh)
2000-2001
- Eastern Division (New York)
  - Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
  - Speaker: Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University), "Why Leibniz Wouldn't, Couldn't, and Shouldn't Endorse Phenomenalism"
- Pacific Division (San Francisco)
  - Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
  - Speaker: Maria Rosa Antognazza (University of Aberdeen), "Trinity and Incarnation: The Relationship between Philosophy and Revealed Theology in Leibniz's Thought" [winner of the 2000 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
  - Commentator: Michael Griffin (Wake Forest University)
- Central Division (Minneapolis), Joint Session with the North American Kant Society
  - Chair: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
  - Speaker 1: Donald Rutherford (University of California - San Diego), "Kant and Leibniz on the Principle of Succession"
  - Speaker 2: Rae Langton (University of Edinburgh), "Mirrors and Windows: Kant and Leibniz on the Limits of Perception"
1999-2000
- Eastern Division (Boston)
  - Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
  - Speaker: Catherine Wilson (University of British Columbia), "Plentitude and Compossibility"
- Pacific Division (Albuqerque)
  - Chair: Donald Rutherford (University of California - San Diego)
  - Speaker 1: Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv University), "Leibniz: Polemics & Epistemological Pluralism"
  - Speaker 2: Franklin Perkins (Pennsylvania State University), "Ideas and Self-Reflection" [sinner of the 1999 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
  - Commentator: Nicholas Jolley (Syracuse University)
- Central Division (Chicago)
  - Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
  - Speaker: "Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachusetts - Amherst), "Leibniz's Theodicy"
1998-1999
- Eastern Division (Washington, D.C.): Joint Session with the North American Spinoza Society
  - Chair: Paul J. Bagley
  - Speaker 1: Mark Kulstad (Rice University), "Leibniz, Spinoza, Tschirnhaus: Philosophical Relations 1675-1676"
  - Speaker 2: Christia Mercer (Columbia University), "Spinoza and Leibniz on Substance and Mode"
  - Commentator: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
- Pacific Division (Berkeley)
  - Chair: John Carriero (University of California - Los Angeles
  - Speaker: Paul Lodge (Tulane University), "The Failure of Leibniz's Correspondence with De Volder" [winner of the 1998 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
- Central Division (New Orleans)
  - Chair: Jan A. Cover (Purdue University)
  - Speaker: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College), "Structure and Reality in Leibniz's Metaphysics"
1997-1998
- Eastern Division (Philadelphia)
  - Chair: Robert Adams (Yale University)
  - Speaker: Richard Arthur (Middlebury College), "Infinite Aggregates and Phenomenal Wholes"
- Pacific Division (Los Angeles)
  - Chair: Alan Nelson (University of California - Irvine
  - Speaker: Allison Coudert (Arizona State University), "Leibniz and the Kabbalah"
- Central Division (Chicago)
  - Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
  - Speaker: Laurence Carlin (Rice University), "Infinite Accumulations and Pantheistic Implications: Leibniz and the Anima Mundi" [winner of the 1997 Leibniz Society Essay Competition]
  - Commentator: Gregory Brown (University of Houston)
1996-1997
- Eastern Division (Atlanta)
  - Chair: Robert M. Adams (Yale University)
  - Speaker: Alison Simmons (Harvard University), "Descartes and Leibniz: Sensing Bodies"
- Pacific Division
  - Chair: Donald Rutherford (Emory University)
  - Speaker: Nicholas Jolley (University of California - San Diego), "Causality and Creation in Leibniz.
- Central Division
  - Chair: Jan Cover (Purdue University)
  - Speaker: Paul Lodge (Rutgers University), "When Did Leibniz Adopt the Preestablished Harmony?"
  - Commentator: Christia Mercer (Columbia Unviersity)
1995-1996
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University), "The Nominalist Argument of the New Essays"
- Pacific Division (Seattle)
  - Chair: Kenneth Clatterbaugh
  - Alan Nelson, "Indiscernibility Arguments in the Clarke Correspondence"
- Central Division (Chicago)
  - Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
  - Speaker 1: E. M. Curley (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor), "Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus"
  - Speaker 2: Christia Mercer (Columbia University), "Leibniz, Spinoza and the Ethics"
1994-1995
- Easter Division (Boston)
  - Chair: Robert M. Adams (Yale University)
  - Speaker: Gary Hatfield, "Was the Scientific Revolution a Revolution in Philosophy?"
- Pacific Division (San Francisco)
  - Chair: Janet Broughton
  - Speaker 1: Paul Hoffman
  - Speaker 2: Michal Murray (Franklin and Marshall College), "Intellect, Will, and Freedom in Leibniz"
- Central Division (Chicago)
  - Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
  - Speaker 1: Fabrizio Mondadori
  - Speaker 2: Donald L.M. Baxter, "Corporeal Substand and True Unities"
1993-1994
- Easter Division (Atlanta)
  - Chair: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachussets - Amherst)
  - Speaker: John Carriero, "Physics, Theology and Contingency in Leibniz"
- Pacific Division (Los Angeles)
  - Chair: Nicholas Jolley (Univeristy of California - San Diego)
  - Speaker 1: Michael Latzer, "Leibniz's Conception of Metaphysical Evil"
  - Speaker 2: Marleen Rozemond, (Kansas State University) "Descartes and Leibniz on Composite Substances"
- Central Division (Chicago)
  - Chair: Martha Bolton (Rutgers University)
  - Speaker: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "Choosing a Theodicy: The Leibniz-Malebrtanche-Arnauld Connection"
  - Commentator: Allison Laywine
1992-1993
- Eastern Division (Washington, D. C.)
  - Chair: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachussets - Amherst)
  - Speaker: Donald Rutherford (Emory University), "The Status of Corporeal Substance in Leibniz's Later Philosophy"
  - Commentator: Catherine Wilson
- Pacific Division
  - Chair: Jill Buroker
  - Speaker: Donald Rutherford (Emory University), "Leibniz and the Problem of Soul-Body Union"
  - Commentator: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachussets - Amherst)
- Central Division (Chicago)
  - Chair: Michael Latzer
  - Speaker: Michael Murray, "Leibniz on Divine Foreknowledge of Future Contingents and Human Freedom"
  - Commentator: Fred Freddoso
1990-1991
- Eastern Division (Boston)
  - Chair: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachussets - Amherst)
  - Speaker: Christia Mercer (University of California - Irvine), "Putting Mind to Matter: Leibniz's Early Conception of Substance"
- Central Division (Chicago)
  - Chair: Steven Voss
  - Speaker: Alex Byrne, "Leibniz on Personal Identity"
  - Commentator: E. M. Curley (University of Illinois - Chicago)
1989-1990
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Catherine Wilson, "Leibniz and the Animalcula"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: Emily Grosholz, "Was Leibniz a Mathematical Revolutionary?"
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Reginald Savage, "The Problem of Counterfactual Propositions in the Philosophy of Leibniz"
1988-1989
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Robert M. Adams (University of California - Los Angeles), "Form and Matter in Leibniz"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (Univesity of Massachussets - Amherst), "More Light on the Arnauld Correspondence; Texts and Commentary"
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Reginald Savage, "Contingency, Incompossibility, and God's Little Infinite Creatures: An Essay on Leibniz's Doctrine of Freedom"
1987-1988
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: François Duchesneau, "Leibniz on Architectonic Principles and Analysis"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: Robert Sleigh, Jr. (Univesity of Massachussets - Amherst), "More Light on the Arnauld Correspondence: Texts and Commentary"
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers Unviversity), "Knowledge of Necessary Truths in the New Essays"
1986-1987
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Hidé Ishiguro, "Did Leibniz believe in an Infinitesimal Magnitude?"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: Gregory Brown (University of Houston), "Leibniz's Theodicy and the Confluence of Worldly Goods"
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Roger Ariew, "Leibniz's Protogaea"
1985-1986
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: E. M. Curley (University of Illinois - Chicago), "The Origins of Leibniz's Theory of Truth"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: Glenn Hartz (Ohilo State University - Mansfield) & Jan Cover (Purdue University), "Space and Time in the Leibnizian Metaphysic"
- Central Division
  - Speaker: John Earman (University of Minnesota), "Leibniz's Theory of Time and Space"
1984-1985
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Margaret Wilson (Princeton University), "The Phenomenalism of Leibniz and Berkeley"
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Fabrizio Mondadori, "Plainly Essential and Individuating Essential Properties"
1983-1984
- Eastern Division
  - Robert Sleigh (University of Massachussets - Amherst), "Substance in the Discourse and the Correspondence with Arnauld"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: "Catherine Wilson, "Leibnizian Optimism
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Glen Hartz (Ohio State University - Mansfield), "Launching a Materialist Ontology: The Leibnizian Way"
1981-1982
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Jonathan Bennett (Syracuse University), "The Remnant and Bennett Translation of the New Essays"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: Kenneth Clatterbaugh, "Malebranche and Leibniz on Occasionalism"
  - Commentator: Craig Walton
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago), "Mind, Body, and the Laws of Nature in Descartes and Leibniz"
  - Commetator: Peter Machamer
1980-1981
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Fred Sommers, "Leibniz and Logical Syntax"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: Mark Kulstad (Rice University), "Apperception and a Puzzle Concerning the Drafts of Section 4 of the Principles of Nature and of Grace"
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Louis Loeb, "Leibniz and Rationalism"
1979-1980
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Jeffrey Tlumak, "Leibniz on Contingency"
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Robert Adams (University of California - Los Angeles), "Leibniz on Corporeal Substance"
  - Commentator: Louis Loeb
1978-1979
- Eastern Division
  - Speaker: Robert McRae, "Time and the Monad"
- Pacific Division
  - Speaker: Nicholas Jolley, "Monads, Minds and Memory"
  - Commentator: Peter Remnant
- Central Division
  - Speaker: Ignazio Angelelli, "The Classical Ontology of Relations and Leibniz"
  - Commentator: Mark Kulstad (Rise University)