empw events











Saturday
03/03
1pm Coffee

1:30-2:30pm Jean-Luc Marion
[Chicago/Sorbonne]
"Descartes between Nietzsche
and Heidegger"

2:45-3:45pm Richard Strier
[Chicago]
"Self-revelation and Self-satisfaction in Montaigne
& Descartes"


3:45-4:45pm Anja Jauernig

[Notre Dame]
"The Modal Strength of Leibniz's
Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles"

5:00-6:00
pm Matt Kisner
[South Carolina]
"Spinoza's Virtuous Passions"

8:30pm Dinner


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Abstracts
[download pdf]
TheMidwest
 Seminar in Early
Modern
Philosophy


 { details of MSEMP 2008 to be announced }


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last year's program:



March 3-4 2007



Sunday
03/04
8:45am Coffee

9:00
-10:00
am Liz Goodnick
[Michigan, Ann Arbor]
"Hume on the Epistemic Superiority
of Polytheism to Monotheism"


10:00-11:00pm Lea Schweitz
[Chicago]
" 'Nearer to God than All Other Things':
Leibniz's Account of Human Uniqueness
"

11:15-12:15pm Geoffrey Gorham
[Wisconsin, Eau Claire]
"Descartes on God's Relation to Time"

12:15-1:15
pm Jeffrey K. McDonough
[Harvard]
"Leibniz: Creation and Conservation
and Concurrence"



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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Dan Garber (Princeton)
Yitzhak Melamed (Chicago)
Steven Nadler (Wisconsin-Madison)



















   
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