The Harvard Workshop in Early Modern
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About the Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy:
The Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy will be meeting intermittently during the course of the academic year to discuss work in progress by distinguished scholars of early modern philosophy. Those interested in attending meetings are encouraged to contact either Jeff McDonough (jkmcdon at fas dot harvard dot edu) or Alison Simmons (asimmons dot fas dot harvard dot edu). We are very grateful to the committee for the Provostial Fund in the Arts and Humanities for its continued support of the workshop.
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Upcoming Talks:

 

"Innateness and the Intentionality of Sensation"
Alan Nelson
October 31, 2009

"Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered"
Alison Simmons
November 21, 2009

"TBA"
Marleen Rozemond
April 16, 2010

"TBA"
Don Garrett
March 26, 2010

"Kant on Logical and Real Meaning "
Andrew Janiak
April 9, 2010

"Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton"
Andrew Janiak
April 10, 2010

 

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Past Talks:

2009

 

"Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity"
Catherine Wilson
May 1, 2009

"Descartes' Rehabilitation of the Senses"
Gary Hatfield
April 3, 2009

"Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza"
Michael Della Rocca
March 13, 2009

"Berkeley and Locke on Real Knowledge"
Margaret Atherton
February 7, 2009

 

 

2008

 

"Noumenal Affection"
Des Hogan
December 12, 2008

"Leibniz on the Modal Status of Absolute Space and Time "
Martin Lin
November 21, 2008

"Reasons, Causes and Inclinations"
Paul Hoffman
July 3, 2008

"Leibniz and Substantial Unity"
Martha Bolton
April 18, 2008

"Enchanting the World: Leibniz on Body, Substance and Monad"
Daniel Garber
February 22, 2008

2007

"Hume, Distinctions of Reason, and Differential Resemblance"
Donald Baxter
October, 26, 2007

"Leibniz on Infinitesimals and the Reality of Force"
Donald Rutherford
October 12, 2007

"Leibniz on Possible Worlds and Compossibility"
Donald Rutherford
October 11, 2007

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