Fourth Annual Conference of the
Leibniz Society of North America

3 - 5 December 2010
University of Houston
Houston, TX

Organized by Gregory Brown

PAPER ABSTRACTS

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• Christian Barth (Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): "Another Case of illegitimate Backward Projection: Why Leibnizian Apperception is not (essentially) higher-order Perception in the New Essays"
• Michael Ferreira (Ohio State University): "Simmons on Leibniz on the Intentionality of Sensation"
• Brian Glenny (Gordon College): "Leibniz on Molyneux's Question"
• Mogens Laerke (University of Aberdeen): "Leibniz's Cosmological Argument"
• Giovanni Merlo (Corpus Christi College, Oxford / University of Barcelona): "Leibnizian Aggregates are not Mind-Dependent Entities"
• Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University): "Leibnizian Encounters with Infinity"
• Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame University): "Leibniz and the Ground of Possibility"
• Christopher Noble (Villanova University): "Leibniz's Comments on Spinoza's Philosophy"
• Maria Picone (Rice University): "Aporetic Monologues: Questions Surrounding 'Von der Allmacht'"
• Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University): "Force, Absolute Motion, and the Threat of Circularity in Leibniz"
• Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oriel College, Oxford): "The Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles, the Tabula Rasa and Unthinking Minds"
• Evelyn Vargas (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina): "Seeing is Believing. Leibniz on Perception and Will"