The schedule is available here.
All times are US Eastern Standard Time
12:00–1:15pm
Optional visit to Harvard Art Museums
1:30–1:45pm
Coffee and Welcome
1:45–3:15pm
Tzuchien Tho (University of Bristol), “Living Force and Stationary Action: Leibniz at the Limits of Analytic Mechanics”
Comments: Marius Stan (Boston College)
3:15–3:30pm
Coffee break
3:30–5:00pm
Keynote Address by Donald Rutherford (UCSD, Emeritus), “Leibniz’s General Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom”
5:00–5:30pm
Toast and Celebration of Donald Rutherford on the Occasion of his Retirement from Teaching
5:30–6:30pm
EC Business meeting
7:00pm
Dinner at Nirvana Restaurant (participants only)
9:00–9:30am
Continental Breakfast
9:30–11:00am
Katherine Dunlop (UT Austin), “Leibniz and Du Châtelet on the Ideality and Epistemology of Space and Time”
Comments: Michael Futch (University of Tulsa)
11:00–11:15am
Coffee Break
11:15am–12:45pm
Andrew Burnside (Vanderbilt), “PSR Problems: Spinoza, Leibniz, Du Châtelet”
Comments: Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
12:45–2:00pm
Catered lunch in Robins Library
2:00–2:15pm
Coffee break
2:15–3:45pm
Osvaldo Ottaviani (Technion), “Leibniz on Substance, Subject, and the Absolute”
Comments: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
3:45–4:00pm
Coffee break
4:00–5:45pm
Henry Straughan (Yale), “Personal Identity and Punishment in Leibniz and Locke”
Comments: Kristen Irwin (Loyola Chicago)
5:45–6:30pm
Business Meeting of the LSNA (open to all LSNA members)
7:00pm
Dinner at Collett Restaurant (participants only)
9:00–9:30am
Continental Breakfast
9:30–11:00am
Miriam Aiello (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), “Remembering ‘without Mark’: the Cognitive and Moral Significance of Reminiscence in Leibniz’s New Essays“
Comments: Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge)
11:00–11:15am
Coffee break
11:15am–12:45pm
Keynote address by Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) “Leibniz and Cudworth”
12:45–2:00pm
Catered lunch in Robins Library
2:15–3:15pm
Optional visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History
(in-person)
All times are US Eastern Standard Time
1:00-2:30pm
Aleksandra Horowska (University of Wrocław), “Do Animals Have Any Rights? The Leibnizian Perspective”
Comment: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
2:45-4:15pm
Mike Hansen (Brigham Young University), “Mills, Cheese, and Worms in Leibnizian Perception”
Comment: Stewart Duncan (University of Florida)
4:30-6:00pm
Qiu Lin (Duke University), “A Different Monadology: Du Châtelet on Monads, Bodies, and Sensory Impression”
Comment: Clara Carus (Paderborn University)
6:30pm
Reception
9:00-10:30am
Filippo Costantini (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice/McMaster), “Leibniz’s Abstractionist Approach to Quantity”
Comment: Noa Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
10:45am-12:15pm
Jen Nguyen (Harvard University), “Leibniz’s Comparativism about Quantity”
Comment: John Whipple (University of Illinois-Chicago)
12:15-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-3:00pm
Vincenzo De Risi (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), “The Genesis of Relationism: Leibniz’s Early Theory of Space and Newton’s Scholium”
Comment: Michael Futch (University of Tulsa)
3:15-4:45pm
Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University), “Did Leibniz Escape the Labyrinth of the Continuum?”
Comment: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth University)
5:00-6:00pm
Business Meeting
6:30pm
Dinner
9:00-10:30am
Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge), “The Power of Love and the Force of Reason: Leibniz and Du Châtelet on the Foundations of Morality”
Comment: Andrew Janiak (Duke University)
10:45am-12:15pm
Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (University of California-Davis), “Faculty Monism in Leibniz, Wolff, and Baumgarten: How to Best Deny the Distinction Between Perception and Thought”
Comment: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
All times are US Eastern Standard Time
11:00-12:20
Michael Hansen (BYU), “Point of View in Leibnizian Perception”
Commentator: Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State)
12:30-1:50
James Mackey (Western Ontario), “Leibniz and the Problem of Personal Identity”
Commentator: Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst)
2:00-3:20
Nicholas Birmingham (Western Ontario), “Fiction, Symbol, Infinitesimal: The Leibnizian Concepts of Transcendental Philosophy”
Commentator: Caterina Marinelli (Rome)
11:00-12:20
Alessandro Becchi (Florence), “Natural Machines and Contingent Truths in Leibniz”
Commentator: Arnaud Pelletier (Brussels)
12.30–1.50
Fatema Amijee (British Columbia), “Leibniz and Du Châtelet on Substance and Sufficient Reason”
Commentator: Anne-Lise Rey (Paris-Nanterre)
2.00–3.20
Laura Pelegrín (Diego Portales), “Natorp’s Early Reading of Leibniz”
Commentator: Brandon Look (Kentucky)
11.00–12.20
Åsne Grøgaard (Oxford), “The Unimportance of Hope in Leibniz’s Philosophy”
Commentator: Donald Rutherford (UC San Diego)
12.30–1.50
Keynote: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory), “Leibniz and Locke on Natural Equality of Human Beings”
Commentator: Julia Borcherding (Cambridge)
2.00–3.20
Business Meeting
“Leibniz on the Order and Artifice in Reproduction”
Evangelian Collings (Pittsburgh)
Commentator: Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore)
“First Experiences and Ingredience in Leibniz’s Late Metaphysics”
Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Commentator: Paul Lodge (Oxford)
Jun Young Kim (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Commentator: Yual Chiek (St. John’s)
“Leibniz’s Conceptualism about Composition”
Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State)
Commenator: Brandon Look (Kentucky)
“God Can Do Otherwise: A Defense of Act Contingency in Leibniz’s Theodicy”
Dylan Flint (Ohio State)
Commentator: Chloe Armstrong (Lawrence)
Julia Borcherding (Cambridge).
Commentator: Marleen Rozemond (Toronto)
“Leibniz’s Mediation between Hobbes and Plato in Leibniz’s Philosophy of Law”
Sören Hand (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Commentator: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory)
“Descriptive Completeness and Circular Multitudes”
Stefano Papa (University of Vienna)
Commentator: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth)
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