Friday, October 23, 2015:
1.30–2.00 pm | Coffee & Welcome |
2.00–3.30 pm | John Whipple (University of Illinois at Chicago), ‘Leibniz on Fundamental Ontology: Conciliatory or Exoteric?’ Comments: Brandon C. Look (University of Kentucky) |
4.00–5.30 pm | Martha Bolton (Rutgers), ‘Leibniz on Primary Force, the ‘Law of the Series’ and the Transtemporal Identity of a Substance’ Comments: Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University) |
6.00–7.00 pm | Reception in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Leibniz Review and of Glenn Hartz’s editorship; speech by Mark Kulstad (Rice); held in the University Museum, off the lobby of University Hall |
Saturday, October 24, 2015:
9.00–9.30 am | Continental breakfast |
9.30–11.00 am | Elizabeth A. Robinson (Nazareth College) and John Grey (Michigan State University), ‘Tracing Reason’s Arc:
The Principle of Sufficient Reason from Leibniz to Kant’ Comments: Anja Jauernig (NYU) |
11.15 am –12.45 pm | Sebastian Bender (Rice), ‘Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR’ Comments: Sam Newlands (Notre Dame) |
12.45–2.00 pm | Lunch break |
2.00–3.30 pm | Thomas Feeney (University of St. Thomas), ‘Leibniz, Acosmism, and Incompossibility’ Comments: Donald Rutherford (UCSD) |
4.00–5.30 pm | Sukjae Lee (Seoul National University), ‘Leibniz on Formal Causation’ Comments: Tad M. Schmaltz (University of Michigan) |
5.30–6.30 pm | Business meeting |
7.00 pm | Conference dinner at Mughal Darbar Indian and Mughlai Cuisine |
Sunday, October 25, 2015:
9.00–9.30 am | Continental breakfast |
9.30–11.00 am | Kristen Irwin (Loyola University Chicago), ‘Heretics, Indifference, and Universalism: Leibniz on Religious Toleration’ Comments: Juan Garcia (Ohio State) |
11.15 am –12.45 pm | Adam Harmer (University of California, Riverside), ‘Leibniz Against the World Soul: Three Versions’ Comments: Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard) |