Fourth Annual Conference of the
Leibniz Society of North America

3 - 5 December 2010
University of Houston
Houston, TX

Organized by Gregory Brown

SCHEDULE

All sessions will be held in M. D. Anderson Library, room 212S, which is located directly behind the Honors College Commons. Coffee and breakfast will be in The Honors College Commons, which is on the second floor of the library. As you enter the front of the library, take a hard right and go up the spiral stairway to the Honors College Commons.

• Friday, 3 December 2010
  • 2:00-2:30: Coffee
  • 2:30-5:50: Session 1 (Chair: Mark Kulstad, Rice University)
    • 2:30-3:30: Brian Glenny (Gordon College), "Leibniz on Molyneux's Question."
    • 3:40-4:40: Christopher Noble (Villanova University), "Leibniz's Comments on Spinoza's Philosophy."
    • 4:50-5:50: Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University), "Force, Absolute Motion, and the Threat of Circularity in Leibniz."
    • 6:15: Reception (Palacio del Rio, University of Houston Hilton)
• Saturday, 4 December 2010
  • 8:30-9:00: Light Breakfast
  • 9:00-12:20: Session 2 (Chair: Brandon Look, University of Kentucky)
    • 9:00-10:00: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oriel College, Oxford), "The Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles, the Tabula Rasa, and Unthinking Minds."
    • 10:10-11:10: Mogens Laerke (University of Aberdeen), "Leibniz's Cosmological Argument."
    • 11:20-12:20: Giovanni Merlo (University of Barcelona), "Leibnizian Aggregates are not Mind-Dependent Entities."
    • 12:20-2:00: Lunch
  • 2:00-5:20: Session 3 (Chair: Donald Rutherford, University of California - San Diego)
    • 2:00-3:00: Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University), "Leibnizian Encounters with Infinity."
    • 3:10-4:10: Maria Picone (Rice University), "Aporetic Monologues: Questions Surrounding 'Von der Allmacht.'"
    • 4:20-5:20: 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."
  • 5:30-6:00: LSNA Executive Committee Meeting
  • 6:30: Dinner for Conference Participants
• Sunday, 5 December 2010
  • 8:30-9:00: Light Breakfast
  • 9:00-12:20: Session 4 (Chair: Martha Bolton, Rutgers)
    • 9:00-10:00: Samuel Newlands (University of Notre Dame), "Leibniz and the Ground of Possibility."
    • 10:10-11:10: Michael Ferreira (Ohio State University), "Simmons on Leibniz on the Intentionality of Sensation."
    • 11:20-12:20: Evelyn Vargas (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina), "Seeing is Believing: Leibniz on Perception and Will."