Texas A&M Conference in Early Modern Philosophy/
South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy

Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
October 23-25, 2008

To commemorate its tenth annual meeting, the South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy is returning to the place of its origin, Texas A&M University, on October 23-25, 2008. Like similar seminars in other parts of the country, the South Central Seminar is an informal group designed to foster interaction among scholars working on topics in the history of early modern philosophy.

Schedule of Events

Click on paper title for abstract and photo of presenter.

Thursday, October 23

5:00     Martha Brandt Bolton, Rutgers University
            The Psychological Ground of Substantial Unity in Leibniz's Metaphysics

Friday, October 24

9:00     Paul Hoffman, University of California, Riverside
            Descartes and Aquinas on 'Per Se' Subsistence and the Union of Soul and Body

10:30   Michael LeBuffe, Texas A&M University
            Spinozistic Perfectionism

2:00     Alan Nelson, University of North Carolina
            Amphibologicism and the Theory of Ideas (the Moderns on the sense-intellect continuum)
3:30     Don Rutherford, University of California, San Diego
            Hobbes and Epicureanism

5:00     Susan James, University of London, Birkbeck College
            Spinoza on Right and Power

7:30     Conference dinner, home of Steve and Breaux Daniel

Saturday, October 25

9:00     Stephen Daniel, Texas A&M University
            The Linguistic Character of Mind in Berkeley

10:30   Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin
            Malebranche's Shadow: Divine Providence in the Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence

2:00    Christia Mercer, Columbia University
           Methodology and Mind in the Seventeenth Century

3:30    John Carriero, University of California, Los Angeles
           Spinoza on Salvation and Beatitude

5:00    Don Garrett, New York University
           Hume’s Causal Sense and the Metaphysics of Causation

All sessions will be held on the Texas A&M University campus in the Philosophy Department's Seminar Room, Bolton 213 (click for campus map). Although there is no registration fee for the seminar, we ask that you register for the seminar and indicate your intention to attend the seminar dinner on Friday night by contacting the conference organizer:

Steve Daniel Department of Philosophy Texas A&M University Phone: 979-845-5619 or 979-846-4649 Email: sdaniel@philosophy.tamu.edu

Accommodations are available at the Memorial Student Center on campus (979-845-8909; ask for the Philosophy conference rooms). Rates: rooms with a twin bed ($65), a room with two double beds ($75 for one person, $80 for two), a deluxe king room ($110 for one person, $115 for two), and a deluxe room with two double beds ($110 for one, $115 for two).

For more information, go to the conference website at http://philosophy.tamu.edu/%7Esdaniel/seminar08.html.

Travel: College Station is served by Continental Airlines via Houston and American Airlines via Dallas-Fort Worth. College Station is located 100 miles from Houston, 175 miles from Dallas-Fort Worth, and 100 miles from Austin.

Major funding for this conference is provided by the Department of Philosophy and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. Additional support comes from the Texas A&M University Political Theory Convocation, the Departments of Communication, English, Sociology, Political Science, and European and Classical Languages and Cultures, and the Religious Studies Program.

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