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