Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

In the Fall 2008 Semester the UNYEMW will be held at Cornell. For more information, click here.

Past UNYEMW Events:

Speakers for Spring 2007:

February 25
Shoshana Smith (Colgate): "Knowledge of the Good and the Role of the Passions in Descartes"
Commentator: Nic Koziolek (Colgate)

March 25, 12:30pm
Georges Dicker (SUNY Brockport): "Anti-Berkeley"
Commentator: Andre Gallois (Syracuse)

April 15
Andrew Chignell (Cornell): "Kant, Beauty, and the Real Possibility of Supersensibles"
Commentator: Rich Booher (Syracuse)

April 29
Pablo Muchnik (Siena): "The Immorality of Self-Love"
Commentator: Jeremy Dickinson (Syracuse)

May 6
Stefanie Rocknack (Harwick)
Commentator: TBA

Speakers for Fall 2006:

September 9
Rachel Cohon (SUNY, Albany): "Hume on Reason and Moral Discrimination."
Commentator: Ernesto V. Garcia (Syracuse)

October 21
Christia Mercer (Columbia University): "Leibniz, Matter, and the Metaphysics of the Resurrection"
Commentator: Aaron Koller (Syracuse).

October 29
Julie Cooper (Syracuse University): "Maimonides and Spinoza on the Politics of Humility."
Commentator: TBA

November 15 at 7:15pm
Don Garrett (NYU): "Spinoza on the Essence of the Human Body and the Part of the Mind that is Eternal."
Commentator: Kien-How Goh (Syracuse)