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Southwest Seminar in
Early Modern Philosophy |
28
February – 1 March 2009
California Institute of Technology
Featuring Invited Speaker:
The fourth annual meeting of the Southwest Seminar in Early Modern
Philosophy will be held 28 February – 1 March 2009 at the California Institute
of Technology in
We are pleased to announce the
program for the fourth annual meeting of the Southwest Seminar.
Saturday 28 February |
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9-9:30am |
CONTINENTAL
BREAKFAST |
9:30-11am |
“The
Challenging Patient: Medicine in the Correspondence between
Descartes and Princess Elisabeth” Susan Mills, |
11:15am-12:25pm |
“Malebranche
on Knowing One’s Own Mind” Matthew Shockey, |
12:30-1:30pm |
LUNCH |
1:30-2:40pm |
“Hume
on Continence and Virtue” Kate Abramson, |
2:45-3:55pm |
“Explanation,
Newtonianism, and the Way of Ideas: Philosophical Method in the Scottish
Enlightenment” Ryan Nichols, |
4-4:30pm |
COFFEE
BREAK |
4:30-5:40pm |
“Leibniz,
Body and Monad” Daniel Garber, |
6-9:30pm |
Conference Dinner at Saladang Song Address: Please RSVP to Gideon Manning if you wish to
attend. |
Sunday 1 March |
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9-9:30am |
CONTINENTAL
BREAKFAST |
9:30-10:40am |
“Locke’s
Familiar Substratum” Robert Pasnau, |
10:45-11:55am |
“Inherence-Causation-Conceivability
in Spinoza, or On the Delicate
Art of Bullet-Biting” Yitzhak Melamed, |
Unless otherwise noted, all Seminar events will
take place in the Treasury Room in Dabney Hall (4C on the Caltech campus map). |
REGISTRATION
There is no registration fee for
the Southwest Seminar, though we do ask that those who plan on attending to
please contact the local organizer, Gideon Manning (gmax@hss.caltech.edu), no
later than 10 February. Please indicate
which days you plan to be in attendance.
If you are interested in attending the conference dinner on Saturday, we
suggest contacting Gideon as soon as possible, since space at this event is
limited.
TRAVEL AND LODGING INFORMATION
For those participants flying into Southern California, there are
three airports that are close to Caltech:
LODGING INFORMATION
We have secured a special rate of
$160/night for conference participants at The Athenaeum, which is the
Caltech Faculty Club. Free internet and a gym pass are included in the
cost of a room. To place a reservation,
call (626) 395-8200 and mention that you are part of the Southwest Seminar
group. You will need to secure your
reservation with a credit card.
Participants may also stay at
either the Hilton ($158/night) or Sheraton ($164/night) near campus at
the discounted Caltech rate. There is
also a Comfort Inn roughly 1.5 miles from
Caltech, which offers rooms at a standard rate of $90/night.
Please note that while lodging
costs are somewhat high in
TALK ON
FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY
On Friday 27 February at 4pm, Daniel Garber will be presenting
“Remarks on the Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy.” The talk will take
place at the Einstein Papers Project (E3 on the Caltech campus map), and all Seminar participants are
invited to attend. A dinner will follow
the talk (starting around 6pm) at Celestino’s, an Italian Restaurant at
CONTACT
INFORMATION
If you have any questions about the 2009 meeting of the Southwest Seminar, feel
free to contact the local organizer, Gideon Manning (gmax@hss.caltech.edu), or either one of the general
organizers, Donald Rutherford (drutherford@ucsd.edu) or Mary Domski
(mdomski@unm.edu).