Early Modern—Saint Louis (EM-STL) is a yearly conference on Modern philosophy in Saint Louis, MO. Programs from past conferences can be found below.
Friday, April 20, 2018
12:00-12:30
Coffee and conference info available
Morgan Stanley Event Space |
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Holekamp Classroom |
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Chair: Eugene Marshall (Florida International University) |
Chair: Krista Rodkey (Hope College) |
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12:30-1:30 |
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12:30-1:30 |
1:40-2:40 |
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1:40-2:40 |
2:50-3:50 |
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2:50-3:50 |
4:00-6:00
Panel on Teaching Modern Philosophy
Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)
Saturday, April 21st, 2018
9:00-10:00
"Mill's Presponse to Frege"
Lewis Powell (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
10:10-11:10
"Astell On Living Up to One's Rational Nature"
Michaela Manson (University of Toronto)
11:20-12:20
"Hume's Content Empiricism"
Kevin Busch (University of Oxford)
Break for Lunch
1:40-2:40
"'On External Existence': Mary Shepherd on our Knowledge of a Mind-Independent World"
Louise Daoust (Eckerd College)
2:50-3:50
"Leibniz on Place"
Jen Nguyen (Harvard University)
4:00-6:00
Keynote Address
"Locke and Hume on the Demonstrability of God's Existence"
Annemarie Butler (Iowa State University)
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2017 Program
Friday, 21 Apr, 2017
12:00-12:30: Coffee and conference info available
12:30-1:30
"Locke's Epistemic Humility"
Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)
1:40-2:40
"Spinoza and Gender Inequality"
Francesca di Poppa (Texas Tech University)
2:50-3:50
"The Contingent Necessity of Descartes' Eternal Truths"
Jeremy Skrzypek (Saint Louis University)
4:00-6:00
Panel on Teaching Modern Philosophy
Eugene Marshall (Florida International University),
Judith Crane (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
Saturday, 22 Apr, 2017
9:00-10:00
"Locke and Hume on Eternity and Immensity"
Annemarie Butler (Iowa State University)
10:10-11:10
"Descartes on the Animal Within, and the Animals Without"
Evan Thomas (The Ohio State University)
11:20-12:20
"Mary Shepherd and the Abstract Self"
Deborah Boyle (College of Charleston)
Break for Lunch
1:40-2:40
"Knowledge and Assent in Kant"
Everett Fulmer (Saint Louis University)
2:50-3:50
"Causal Inference and Perception in the Treatise and first Enquiry; Hume's Anticipation of Modularity"
Louis Loeb (University of Michigan)
4:00-6:00
Keynote Address
"The Role of Motivation in Cartesian Freedom"
Scott Ragland (Saint Louis University)