Provisional Program
All sessions will be held in the Faculty Lounge of the Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 211. Registration, including the conference dinner, is free. To insure a place at the dinner, please register by September 30.
Friday, October 18
1:30-2:00 pm Session 1 2:00-3:15 3:30-4:45 5:00-6:15 6:15 Saturday, October 19 8:30 onwards Session 2 9:00-10:15 10:30-11:45 12:00-2:00 Session 3 2:00-3:15 3:30-4:45 5:00-6:00 7:00 Sunday, October 20 8:30 onwards Session 4 9:00-10:15 10:30-11:45 |
Coffee & Welcome Ohad Nachtomy (Bar Ilan University & Fordham University): "Ce qu'il vienne de dire de la double infinité n'est qu'une entrée dans mon system - Leibniz’s Response to Pascal on Infinity and the Nature of Living Beings” Giovanni Merlo (University of Barcelona, Winner of the 2012 LSNA Essay Prize): “Complexity, Existence and Infinite Analysis” Steve Steward (Syracuse): “Solving the Lucky and Guaranteed Proof Problems” Reception Breakfast in HGS Julia Jorati (Ohio State): “Three Types of Spontaneity, Teleology and Monadic Actions” Christopher Noble (Villanova University): “Is Knowledge Necessary for Action? Leibniz and the Occasionalists” Lunch Marine Picon (ENS Lyon): “Another Look at Leibniz and Platonism” Peter Myrdal (Uppsala): “Why are Faculties Unintelligible? The Metaphysical Basis of Leibniz’s Criticism of Aristotelian Powers” LSNA Business Meeting Conference Dinner at Bentara Restaurant Breakfast in HGS Gregory Brown (Houston): “Leibniz on the Possibility of a Spatial Vacuum” John Whipple (University of Illinois): “Discours Exoterique in in the Essais de Theodicée: Moral and Physical Evil” |
A pdf version of the program can be downloaded here.