2019
Delphine Antoine-Mahut (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon): "Descartes in the Pantheon. New materials on Claude Clerselier's Editorial Work" Friday April 25, 2019
Paul Lodge (Oxford): "Leibniz on Vital Principles and Plastic Natures," Monday March 25, 2019
Melissa Merritt (University of New South Wales) "Kant and Psychological Monism"Monday February 25, 2019
Khaled El-Rouayheb (Harvard): "The Liar Paradox in 15th Century Shiraz: The Exchange between Sadr al-Din Al-Dashtaki and Jalal al-Din al-Dawani,” Friday February 15, 2019
Kathryn Tabb (Columbia) "Locke on Complex Ideas and the Ethics of Belief," Friday February 8, 2019
2018
Workshop: International Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy, Day 2, Sunday September 30, 2018:
Doug Blue (Harvard): “Instrumentalism about infinite number in Leibniz.” Comments by Abram Kaplan (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Robert Mason (Toronto): "Leibniz's Infinite Analysis Account of Contingency." Comments by Jeff McDonough (Harvard)
Dominic Dimech (Sydney): "Hume's Relative Ideas." Comments by Doina Rusu (Groningen)
Elena Gordon (Sydney): “Hume on the capabilities of children and the emergence of fictions.” Comments by Donald Ainslie (Toronto)
Workshop: International Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy, Day 1, Saturday September 29, 2018:
Sabine van Enckevort (Groningen): “Real and Apparent Things: Peter Auriol's Alignment of the Object of Illusions and Veridical Perception.” Comments by Anik Waldo (Sydney)
Ariane Schneck (HU Berlin): "Descartes on Freedom and the Ability to Do Otherwise." Comments by Martin Lenz (Groningen)
Robbie Matyasi (Toronto): “Revisiting Spinoza’s essentialism.” Comments by Sebastian Bender (HU Berlin)
Christian Henkel (Groningen): “Contextualising Cordemoy's Occasionalism: A Project of Deconstruction and Reconstruction.” Comments by Marleen Rozemond (Toronto)
Mariska Leunissen (UNC) "Conviction, (Alternative) Facts, and Fake News in Aristotle's Natural Science", Friday September 7, 2018
Lucia Oliveri (Münster/Rutgers) The Logic of the Imagination: A Useful Fiction, Friday February 16, 2018
2017
Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College) “Disagreement about Substance and Unity in the Lebiniz-Arnauld Correspondence,” Friday December 1, 2017
Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame) “Assimilation and Aboutness: Crossing the Mind-World Gap (or not) with Aquinas’s Intelligible Species,” Friday October 27, 2017
Christof Rapp (Munich) “Aristotle & Aristotelian Naturalism,” Friday October 16, 2017
Julia Borcherding (Yale/NYU) “Moral Knowledge in Leibniz’s New Essays,” Friday September 29, 2017
Andrea Sangiacomo (University of Groningen) “Teleology and Mechanism in the 17th Century,” Friday September 11, 2017
Jens Timmerman (University of St. Andrews) "Autonomy, Progress and Virtue: Why Kant Has Nothing to Fear from the Overdemandingness Objection,” Friday August 25, 2017
Piotr Szalek (Catholic University of Lublin) "Early Modern Origins of Pragmatism,” Friday May 19, 2017
Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University) "On Living Mirrors and Mites: Leibniz’s Encounter with Pascal on Infinity and Living Things circa 1696", Friday May 12, 2017
2016
Workshop: Émilie Du Châtelet – 310th Anniversary, Co-sponsored with the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, Friday and Saturday, November 18-19, 2016:
Free Staged Reading of Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson Directed by Judy Braha (CFA School of Theater), with a Panel Discussion and Talk Back to follow.
Judith Zinsser (Miami University, Ohio) "The Evolution of Emilie Du Chatelet's Ways of Thinking: From the "Metaphysique d'Amour" to a "Metaphysique du Tout"
George Smith (Tufts University) "How Much Did She See? Du Chatelet's Commentary on Newton's Principia,"
Ruth Hagengruber (Paderborn University) "Du Chatelet and the Fight Over Metaphysics,"
Marius Stan (Boston College) "Substance and Body in Du Chatelet's Institutions de Physique,"
Andrew Janiak (Duke University) "Emilie Du Chatelet & the Scope of Physics in the Early Eighteenth Century,"
Katherine Brading, (University of Notre Dame) "Beyond the Newtonians: Du Chatelet's Quest in her Institutions de Physique"
Lanier Anderson (Stanford University) “Nietschean Autonomy and the Meaning of Sovereign Individual’,” October 17, 2016
Workshop: God and the Philosophers, co-sponsored with Ann Blair and James Hankins, Harvard History Department, April 8, 2016:
Craig Martin (Oakland University) “Averroes, Averroism, and the New Sciences”
Debora Shuger (UCLA) "Place and Presence: the metaphysics of the Eucharist on the threshold of modernity"
Daniel Garber (Princeton University) "Spinoza: God of the Philosophers and God of the Bible"
Steven Nadler (UW Madison) "Malebranche's Miracles"
Lisa Downing(Ohio State University) "Locke on the Possibility of Thinking Matter and the Impossibility of a Material God"
Jeff McDonough (Harvard University) "Spinoza on Personal Immortality" Harvard University
2014
Jon McGinnis (University Missouri – St. Louis) "Mind the Gap: Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space and Its Reception"
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Kara Richardson (Syracuse University) "Avicenna on Determinism and Human Freedom"
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Emma Gannage (Georgetown University) "Revisiting al-Kindi's Sources"
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Riccardo Strobino (Ruhr-Universität Bochum/University of Cambridge) "Necessity in Avicenna's theory of science" Saturday, October 4, 2014
Paul Guyer (Brown University) "Mendelssohn, Kant and the Postulate of Immortality" Saturday, December 7, 2014
Marius Stan (Boston College) "Unity for Kant's Natural Philosophy" Saturday, December 7, 2014
Dominik Perler (HU Berlin/Princeton Global Scholar) "How can we control our emotions? Two medieval perspectives" Saturday, February 8, 2014
Sarah Byer (Boston College) "Victorinus and Augustine in the Commentary Tradition on Aristotle: Substance, Existence, and Actuality" Saturday, February 8, 2014
Ken Winkler (Yale University) "Causal Realism and Hume's Revisions of the Enquiry"
Saturday, March 8th, 2014
Elizabeth Radcliffe (The College of William and Mary) "Alcali and Acid, Oil and Vinegar: Hume on Contrary Passions" Saturday, March 8th, 2014
2013
Victor Caston (University of Michigan) "Aristotle on Illusions, Hallucinations, and Dreams"
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Christiana Olfert (Tufts) "Aristotle, Action, and Fitting Oneself to the World" Saturday, November 23, 2013
Ollie Koistinen (University of Turku) "From Descartes's True and Immutable Natures to Kant's Transcendental Deduction"
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Becko Copenhaver (Lewis and Clarke College) "Reidian Moral Perception"
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Yumiko Inukai (UMass Boston) "Hume's Tensions in Fictions"
Saturday, February 23, 2013
James Harris (St. Andrews) "Late Hume: Between Authority and Liberty"
Saturday, February 23, 2013
2012
David Charles (Oxford University) "Aristotle on Taste"
Saturday, November 3. 2012
Casey Perin (UC Irvine) “Knowledge, Stability and Virtue in the Meno”
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Brandon Look (University of Kentucky) "Understanding the Amphiboly: Kant’s Critique of Leibniz”
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Jean-Luc Solère (Boston College) "Bayle and the Thinking Cadavers"
Friday, March 23, 2012
Anja Jauernig (University of Pittsburgh) "Kant’s Realism and Fictionalism about Things in Themselves"
Friday, February 24, 2012
2011
Yitzak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) "Spinoza's Deification of Existence"
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Ursula Renz (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt) "Finite subjects in the Ethics: Spinoza’s conception of the human mind and its consequences for his rationalism"
Friday, September 23, 2011
Mary Louise Gill (Brown University) "The Limits of Perception: Another look at Theaetetus 184-186.”
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Sean Greenberg (UC Irvine) "Occasionalism and Human Freedom in Malebranche: 'Things that Undermine Each Other?'"
April 9, 2011
Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto) "Hume's Philosophical Reflections on Sensory Beliefs"
March 25, 2011
Rae Langton (MIT) "Humility and Contingency: Lessons from Kant's 1755 Nova Dilucidatio"
March 4, 2011
2010
Justin Broackes (Brown University) "Locke on Substance"
November 5, 2010
Tad Schmaltz (Duke University) "Descartes's Critique of Scholastic Teleology"
October 2, 2010
Sukjae Lee (Ohio State) "Leibnizian Appetition"
April 20, 2010
Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto) "Mills Can't Think: Leibniz's Approach to the Mind-Body Problem "
April 16, 2010
Andrew Janiak (Duke University) "Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton"
April 9, 2010
Don Garrett (NYU) "Representation and Misrepresentation in Spinoza's Philosophy of Mind"
March 26, 2010
2009
Alison Simmons (Harvard University) "Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered"
November 21, 2009
Alan Nelson (UNC) "Innateness and the Intentionality of Sensation"
October 31, 2009
Catherine Wilson (CUNY) "Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity"
May 1, 2009
Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania) "Descartes' Rehabilitation of the Senses"
April 3, 2009
Michael Della Rocca (Yale University) "Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza"
March 13, 2009
Margaret Atherton (UW Milwaukee) "Berkeley and Locke on Real Knowledge"
February 7, 2009
2008
Des Hogan (Princeton University) "Noumenal Affection"
December 12, 2008
Martin Lin (Rutgers University) "Leibniz on the Modal Status of Absolute Space and Time "
November 21, 2008
Paul Hoffman (UC Riverside) "Reasons, Causes and Inclinations"
July 3, 2008
Martha Bolton (Rutgers University) "Leibniz and Substantial Unity"
April 18, 2008
Daniel Garber (Princeton University) "Enchanting the World: Leibniz on Body, Substance and Monad"
February 22, 2008
2007
Donald Baxter (University of Connecticut) "Hume, Distinctions of Reason, and Differential Resemblance"
October, 26, 2007
Donald Rutherford (UC San Diego) "Leibniz on Infinitesimals and the Reality of Force"
October 12, 2007
Donald Rutherford (UC San Diego) "Leibniz on Possible Worlds and Compossibility"
October 11, 2007