Registration is now open for the International Conference at the Lampeter Campus of University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, 3 – 5 July 2015.
This conference will celebrate Leibniz’s work by exploring the depth of his philosophical vision in conjunction with his engagement with the sciences of his time. The provisional schedule is as follows:
Day 1: Friday 3 July 2015 | |
| 13.30 | Registration |
| 14.00 – 14.15 | Welcome |
| 14.15 – 15.15 | Michael Kempe (Hanover & Göttingen): A genius in chains? Leibniz, the Baroque Court and the metaphysics of cameralism (Keynote address) |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Coffee and tea |
Session 1: Metaphysics | |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Christopher Noble (Villanova): The soul as spiritual automaton: Leibniz’s natural philosophy and the construction of concepts |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Tzuchien Tho (Berlin): Physical causality in the monadic world |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Stefano di Bella (Milan): Conceptual analysis and ontology in the De Volder correspondence |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Panel discussion |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
Day 2: Sat. 4 July 2015 | |
| 8.30 | Coffee and tea |
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Eberhard Knobloch (Berlin): Leibniz’s mathematical handling of death, catastrophes, and insurances (invited talk) |
Session 2: Mathematics and science | |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Elina & Alexander Shukhman (Orenburg): Leibniz’s achievements in binary fractions in the context of the history of mathematics |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Miguel Palomo (Seville): Galileo’s Discorsi and Leibniz’s foundation of the calculus |
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Coffee and tea |
| 11.15 – 11.45 | Alessandro Becchi (Pisa): Between learned science and practical knowledge: Leibniz, Leeuwenhoek and the school for microscopists |
| 11.45 – 12.15 | Richard T. W. Arthur (McMaster): Leibniz, organic matter and astrobiology |
| 12.15 – 13.00 | Panel discussion |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
Session 3: Epistemology | |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Lucia Oliveri (Münster): On the epistemological status of thought experiments in Leibniz’s metaphysics: conceivability, possibility and compossibility |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Martha Bolton (Rutgers): Leibniz on knowledge of general contingent truths |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee and tea |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Chris Meyns (Toronto): Leibniz and the ethics of probability |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Dale Jacquette (Bern): Leibniz’s empirical, not empiricist methodology |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Panel discussion |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
Day 3: Sun. 5 July 2015 | |
| 8.30 | Coffee and tea |
Session 4: Ethics and theology | |
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Jill Hernandez (San Antonio): Can Leibniz’s theodicy account for atrocious harms? |
| 9.30 – 10.00 | Paul Lodge (Oxford): Leibniz’s esoteric promise of universal salvation |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Coffee and tea |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Samuel Murray (Saint Louis): Leibnizian deliberation: sufficient inclination and indifference |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Agustín Echavarría (Navarra): Leibniz on efficacious and sufficient grace |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Panel discussion |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Maria Rosa Antognazza (London): Philosophy and science in Leibniz (Keynote address) |
| 13.00 | End |
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