Below is the program for the Fourth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America, which will be held at the University of Houston in Houston, TX from 3 to 5 December 2010. Active links are to abstracts of the papers. Further information about the conference can be found on the website for the conference at http://www.gwleibniz.com/lsna_houston.
- 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."
