Early Modern—Saint Louis
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Philosophers surrounding the Gateway Arch

Early Modern—Saint Louis (EM-STL) is a conference on Modern philosophy held each year in Saint Louis, MO.

 
Program
 

Friday, May 3rd, 2019

12:00-12:30
Coffee and conference info available

Morgan Stanley Event Space

 

Holekamp Classroom

12:30-1:30
"Locke and the Persistent Unreality of Space"
Walter Ott (University of Virginia)

 

12:30-1:30
"Kant's 'As If' and Hume's 'Remote Analogy': Deism and Theism in the Prolegomena"
Tim Jankowiak (Towson University)

1:40-2:40
"Locke on Knowledge, Propositions, and Particles"
Shelley Weinberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 

1:40-2:40
"Beauty as Cognitive Perfection: Kant's Copernican Turn in Aesthetics"
Jessica Williams (University of South Florida)

2:50-3:50
"Women in John Locke's Family: Free from Conventions, Tied by the Natural Appointment"
Alzbeta Hajkova (Purdue University)

 

2:50-3:50
"Mary Shepherd's Teleological Argument"
Daniel Collette (Marquette University)

4:00-6:00
Panel on Race in Early Modern Philosophy

"Valuing the Margins: Spinoza's Philosophy as Intersectional"
Patrick Miller (University of South Florida)
"Amerindians, Barbarians, and Slaves. Aristotle and the Valladolid Controversy"
Camilo Martinez (Princeton University)
"Inferior Creatures and Natural and Artificial Inferiority in Hume's Theory of Justice"
Steve Mischler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Comments by Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)
 

 

Saturday, May 4th, 2019

9:00-11:00
Panel on External Existence in British Philosophy

Tim Black (California State University Northridge)
Annemarie Butler (Iowa State University)
Louise Daoust (Eckerd College)

Morgan Stanley Event Space

 

Holekamp Classroom

11:10-12:20
"Gender and Virtue: Adam Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Sophie de Grouchy on Self-Command"
Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham University)

 

11:10-12:20
"Spinoza's Universal Human Essence"
Christopher Martin (University of Toledo)

Break for Lunch

1:40-2:40
"Wollstonecraft's Political Conception of Marriage: Friendship, Autonomy, and Property"
Allauren Forbes (University of Pennsylvania)

 

1:40-2:40
"The Truth Rule in Descartes and Arnauld"
Eric Stencil (Utah Valley University)

2:50-3:50
"Mary Astell's Intellectual Modesty And Its Consequences for Testimony and Faith"
Mark Boespflug (University of Colorado Boulder)

 

2:50-3:50
"Leibniz's Lost (and Best) Argument Against Causal Interaction"
Tobias Flattery (University of Notre Dame)

4:00-6:00
Keynote Address
"Kant, Inferentialism, and the Question of Perception"
David Landy (San Francisco State University)

 

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Sponsored by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Philosophy
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences
and the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University

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Richard Fry (SIUE), organizer

Please contact me with any questions!