Draft Programme for Leibniz Conference
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Leibniz and the English-Speaking World
University of Liverpool 3-6 September, 2003
Funded by the British Academy, the British Society for the History of Philosophy, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst and the Mind Association
Programme
Wednesday (3rd September)
14.00-15.00 REGISTRATION (Foyer, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
15.00 SESSION I (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Andreas Blank (University of Pittsburgh) ‘John Wilkins’ Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language and the Development of Leibniz’s Theory of Metaphysical Concepts’
Jaap Maat (University of Amsterdam) ‘Leibniz and the English language planners’
Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University, Houston, President of the American Leibniz Society)
16.45 TEA
17.15 SESSION II (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Catherine Wilson (University of British Columbia) ‘Two Opponents of Epicurean Atomism: Leibniz and Cavendish’ Chair: Norma B. Goethe (University of Cordoba)
18.15 BREAK (Bar open, Derby and Rathbone Hall)
19.00 DINNER (Dining Room, Derby and Rathbone Hall)
Evening - Free Thursday (4th September) 08.00 BREAKFAST (Dining Room, Derby and Rathbone Hall) 09.00 SESSION III (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
George MacDonald Ross (University of Leeds) ‘Leibniz’s Debt to Hobbes’
Patrick Riley (Harvard University) ‘Leibniz and Thomas Burnett’
Chair: John Rogers (University of Keele)
10.45 BREAK
11.15 SESSION IV (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Philip Beeley (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster) ‘ “ Un des mes amis”. On Leibniz’s Relation to the English Mathematician and Theologian John Wallis’
Stuart Brown (Open University) ‘Leibniz and Robert Boyle: Two Views of Faith and Reason’
Chair: Maria Rosa Antognazza (King's College, London)
13.00 LUNCH (Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
14.00 SESSION V (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Alexandra Lewendoski (Technische Universität, Berlin) ‘Leibniz in Shaftesbury’s Thoughts’
Sean Greenberg (Johns Hopkins University) ‘ Freedom as a Fairy Tale: Leibniz, King, and the Project of the Theodicy’
Chair: TBA
15.45 BREAK
16.15 SESSION VI (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Martha Bolton (Rutgers University) ‘Nouveaux Essais: A Conversation between Locke and Leibniz?’
Nicholas Jolley (University of California, Irvine) ‘Leibniz, Locke and the Epistemology of Toleration’ Chair: Candice Shelby (University of Colorado at Denver)
18.00 BAR OPEN (Derby and Rathbone Hall)
20.00 CONFERENCE DINNER (Dining Room, Derby and Rathbone Hall) Friday (5th September)
08.00 BREAKFAST (Dining Room, Derby and Rathbone Hall)
09.00 SESSION VII (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Pauline Phemister (University of Liverpool) ‘ The Principle of Uniformity in Leibniz’s Correspondence with Damaris Masham’
Marc Bobro (University of Southern Maine) ‘ Was I always a Person? Leibniz and Conway on the Origin and Identity of the Rational Soul’
Chair: TBA
10.45 COFFEE
SESSION VIII (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Tsuyoshi Matsuda (University of Kobe) ‘Leibniz’s “Realism” in Contrast to Berkeley’s Principles’
Stephen Daniel (Texas A & M University) ‘Leibniz, the Toland-Berkeley Critique of Abstraction, and Ramism’
Chair: Stuart Brown (Open University)
13.00 LUNCH (Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
14.00 SESSION IX (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Gregory Brown (University of Houston) ‘ Is the logic in London different from the logic in Hanover? Some methodological issues in Leibniz's dispute with the Newtonians over the cause of gravity.’
William Starr (Marquette University) ‘Leibniz and Hume’
Chair: TBA
15.45 BREAK
16.15 SESSION X (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Teaching Leibniz (George MacDonald Ross)
18.00 RECEPTION (Bar, Derby and Rathbone Hall)
19.00 DINNER (Dining Room, Derby and Rathbone Hall)
Evening - Free Saturday (6th September)
08.00 BREAKFAST (Dining Room, Derby and Rathbone Hall)
09.00 SESSION XI (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Evelyn Vargas (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) ‘ Synechism and Monadology: Charles Sanders Peirce’s Reading of Leibniz’
Alberto Guillermo Ranea (Universidad Torcuato di Tella) ‘Herbert Wildon Carr and the Fortunes of Leibnizian Monads’
Chair: Andreas Blank (University of Pittsburgh)
10.45 COFFEE
11.15 SESSION XII (Senior Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University) ‘ Leibniz, Russell and Wittgenstein on Possible and Impossible Notions’ Norma B. Goethe (University of Cordoba) ‘How Bertrand Russell made Leibniz into a “fellow spirit”’
Chair: TBA
13.00 LUNCH (Dining Room, Roscoe and Gladstone Hall)
Conference Closes