Justin E. H. Smith

Call for Papers / Appel à propositions, LSNA, Montréal, 2012

(le français suit)

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America will be hosted jointly by the université de Montréal and by Concordia University in Montreal, October 19-20, 2012. It will be preceded, on October 17 and 18 in Montreal, by the North American wing of a pair of conferences on Leibniz and Bayle, the first of which will be held in Paris, at the Sorbonne, on from the 13th to the 15th of September, 2012.

We are currently inviting submissions for papers to be delivered at the LSNA meeting on October 19-20. Papers may be on any aspect of Leibniz's philosophy, and should have a delivery time of 45-50 minutes. Papers may be in either English or French.

Please send a 1- to 2-page abstract of your paper to Christian Leduc (christian.leduc.1@gmail.com) or to Justin Smith (justismi@alcor.concordia.ca) by December 15, 2011.

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Le colloque annuel de la Société Leibnizienne de l'Amérique du Nord se tiendra conjointement à l'université de Montréal et à l'université Concordia, à Montréal, 19-20 octobre, 2012. Cette réunion sera précédée par le volet nord-américain d'un diptyque de colloques sur Leibniz et Bayle, dont le premier aura lieu à Paris, en Sorbonne, 13-15 septembre, 2012.

Nous vous invitons à soumettre vos propositions de communication à la réunion de la SLAN (les organisateurs du colloque Leibniz-Bayle feront un appel à propositions séparé). Les interventions peuvent porter sur tous les aspects et toutes les périodes de la philosophie de Leibniz. Chaque intervenant aura autour de 45-50 minutes pour sa communication. Les langues officielles du colloque sont le français et l'anglais.

Veuillez faire parvenir un résumé de votre communication (1-2 pages) à Christian Leduc (christian.leduc.1@gmail.com) ou à Justin Smith (justismi@alcor.concordia.ca) avant le 15 décembre, 2011.

Philosophy and Its History

A Workshop on Methods, Aims, and New Directions in the Scholarship of Early Modern Philosophy

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

October 29-30, 2011

Programme

Saturday, October 29 (Room MB 15.224, in the John Molson School of Business)

11:30-11:50 Welcome and Introduction (Mogens Laerke, Eric Schliesser, and Justin Smith)

11:50-12:40 Michael Della Rocca (Yale University): "The Taming of Philosophy"

12:40-1:30 Mary Domski (University of New Mexico): "Difference, Disunity, and the Dialogue Between Past and Present"

1:30-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:20 Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent): "True Philosophic Prophecy"

3:20-4:10 Yitzhak Melamed (The Johns Hopkins University): "The Political Domestication of Spinoza, or, Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination"

4:15-5:05 Julie R. Klein (Villanova University): "The Dialectics of Philosophy and Its History"

5:10-6:00 Delphine Kolesnik (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon): "On the Construction of Models and Counter-Models in the History of Cartesian Philosophy: Régius and Malebranche"

7:00 Dinner for participants at La Sala Rosa (4848 Blvd. St. Laurent)

Sunday, October 30 (Room 769, Hall Building)

9:00-9:50 Roger Ariew and Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida):  "Confronting Evil Demons: The Contingency of Philosophical Problems"

9:50-10:40 Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen): "The Internal-External Distinction in the Historiography of Philosophy"

10:50-11:40 Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina): "Philosophical Systems and their History"

11:40-12:30 Tad M. Schmaltz (University of Michigan): "What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy?"

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:20 Mogens Laerke (University of Aberdeen and Fondation Marie Curie): "The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism"

2:20-3:10 Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia University): "The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process: The Archaeological Analogy"

3:20-4:10 Koen Vermeir (CNRS, Paris): "A Plea for Philosophical Promiscuity"

4:10-5:00 Dan Garber (Princeton University): Discussion

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This event is being made possible with generous support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and from the Matchette Foundation.

For more information please contact Justin Smith: justismi@alcor.concordia.ca