Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop
Syracuse hosts a workshop on Early Modern Philosophy several times each semester. The Workshop is open to the public. Meetings are at noon unless otherwise noted, and are held in 538 Hall of Languages. Lunch is provided for those who RSVP. For more information or to RSVP for a future meeting, contact Ernesto V. Garcia.
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)
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