previous years

2023-24 

Fall 2023 Fri 10/13 – John Proios (U. Chicago): “The Knowledge of Free People: Dialectic, Intelligibility, and Liberation in Plato’s Sophist” Fri 10/27 – Marie Jayasekera (Cal State Long Beach): “Experience and Definitions in the Hobbes-Bramhall Debate” Fri 11/03 – Juan Carlos Gonzalez (UCSD): “Did Kant Care About Aristotle? On §§72-73 of the Critique of the Power of Judgment.” Fri 11/17 – Jacob Zellmer (UCSD): “Spinoza on the Natural Light.” Fri 12/01 – Robert Pasnau (UC Boulder), TBD2021-2022

Winter 2024

Fri 01/26 – Dominic Bailey (CU Boulder), on the ‘opposition argument’ in Plato’s Phaedo Fri 02/02 – Anna Marmodoro (Durham University), on Plato’s ‘Parmenidean Essentialism’ Fri 02/09 — Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame) on Kant’s notion of dignity Fri 02/16 – Pavlos Kontos (University of Patras) — on Aristotle and the unity of virtue Fri 03/08 – Alison Simmons (Harvard University) — on Descartes Spring 2024

*mon 04/01 — chris shields (ucsd) on suarez’s nominalism fri 04/26 — panel on ‘new narratives’ with: patricia marechal (ucsd) & john proios (uchicago) — on history of philosophy of race and racism in ancient philosophy; sam rickless (ucsd) — on contributions from women to early modern philosophy; clinton tolley (ucsd) & michael hardimon (ucsd) — on women-philosophers and philosophy of race in modern german philosophy fri may 10 – josefine klingspor (yale) – on spinoza fri may 17 – ralph wedgwood (usc) – on the stoics fri may 31 – ashley attwood (stanford/arkansas) – on aristotle’s de anima 1.2 fri june 7 – claudi brink (new hampshire) on kant

2022-23

Fall 2022 week 2 – fri oct 7 – jc gonzalez (ucsd) on kant, concepts, purposes week 4 – fri oct 21 – julia greig (ucsd) on stoic views of death, dying, and personal identity week 6 – fri nov 4 – patricia marechal (ucsd) on [tbd] week 8 – fri nov 18 – leo moauro (ucsd) on spinoza’s value projectivism Winter 2023 Spring 2023

2021-22

Fall 2021 October 8: Joe Stratmann (UCSD), “Miracles, Metaphysics, and Method: Syntheticity from Wolff to Kant” October 15: Rachel Singpurwalla (Maryland), “Plato on the Private Ideology of the Family” November 5: Max Edwards (UCSD), “Kant on the Relation between Pure and ‘Schematized’ Categories” November 12: Daniel Cohen (UCSD), “The Early Heidegger’s Concept of Death” November 19: Eric Watkins (UCSD),  “Kant’s Criticism of Metaphysics” Winter 2022 January 14: Julia Grieg (UCSD), “The Fuzzy Boundaries of Death in Epicurean Thought” [on pause for talks by history/allison chair search candidates] Spring 2022 April 8: Lorenzo Spagnesi (Trier) on the regulative use of reason in Kant April 22: Leo Moauro (UCSD) on desire and judgments of value in Spinoza April 29: Stephen Howard (KU Leuven) on Kant’s late philosophy of nature May 6: Sam Newlands (Notre Dame) on Regis and anti-Spinozism May 19-20: UCSD Early Modern Graduate Workshop with Marie Jayasekera (CSU Long Beach) and Kristin Primus (UC Berkeley) [website] May 27: tbd

2020-21

Fall 2020 [via zoom] fri oct 2 joe stratmann (ucsd) on kant fri oct 23 janelle dewitt (ucla) on anselm and kant on freedom fri oct 30 rosalind chaplin (ucsd) on kant fri nov 13 julia jorati (umass) on early modern philosophy of race (rrhp) fri dec 4 robin muller (csu northridge) on the unity of merleau-ponty’s phenomenology Winter 2021 [via zoom] fri jan 22 zack brants (ucsd) on plato and pleasure fri feb 26 lydia patton (virginia tech) on helmholtz, hering, and perception Spring 2021 [still via zoom] fri apr 16 michael pittman (ucsd), hegel on the logic of the understanding fri apr 23 justin vlasits (tuebingen/uic), plato on knowledge in the philebus fri apr 30 joe stratmann (ucsd), the wolffian foundations of kant’s moral philosophy fri may 14 rosalind chaplin (ucsd), kant on idealism and indeterminacy fri may 21 leo moauro (ucsd) on spinoza and perfection [ucsd spinoza workshop tues-weds may 18-19] fri may 28 jc gonzalez (ucsd) on kant’s concept of life fri jun 4 lucy allais (ucsd) on free markets in kant

2019-20

Fall 2019 Oct 4 Gerad Gentry (Lewis University) on Kant and German Idealism Oct 18 Claudi Brink (UCSD) on Kant Nov 8 RRHP discussion of Peter Park’s Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy Nov 14 [*thurs!*] Steven Nadler (Wisconsin) on Malebranche, Arnauld, Fénelon Nov 15 Robert Pasnau (Colorado) [tentative!] on tbd Nov 22 Leo Moauro (UCSD) on Spinoza Winter 2020 Jan 17 Joe Stratmann (UCSD) on German rationalism Jan 31 Julia Muñoz (UNAM) on Kant’s theoretical philosophy Feb 7 Eric Watkins (UCSD) on the unconditioned in Kant Feb 21 [tbd] Mar 7 Michael Hardimon (UCSD) on Hegel on race (rrhp) Mar 14 Jessica Williams (South Florida) and Tim Jankowiak (Towson) on phenomenalism Spring 2020 [via zoom] apr 10 — don rutherford (ucsd) on descartes apr 17 — bas tonissen (ucsd) on kant on self-love may 1 — justin smith (paris 7) on anton wilhelm amo (rrhp) may 8 — marie jayasekera (csu long beach) on descartes may 22 — charlotte sabourin (ubc) on kant, wollstonecraft, hippel, and the status of women in the state

2018-19

Fall 2018 Oct 5 — Dalia Nassar (Sydney) on Herder and the philosophy of nature Oct 18 *Thurs* 4-530pm — Yasuo Deguchi and Ryosuke Igarashi (Kyoto) on themes from Kant Nov 2 — Emily Hulme Kozey (Princeton) on technē in the Platonic dialogues Nov 14 *Weds* 4-530pm — Julie Walsh (Wellesley) on Eve, Malebranche, and women Nov 30 — Monte Johnson (UCSD) on Democritus Winter 2019 Jan 19 — Patrick Frierson (Whitman) on Montessori and the history of philosophy of education Feb 22 — Voula Tsouna (UC Santa Barbara) on the Epicureans and techne Mar 8 — Sean Greenberg (UC Irvine) [*postponed*] Mar 15 — Francey Russell (Yale) [*postponed*] Spring 2019 Apr 1 — Don Rutherford (UC San Diego) on ethics and self-knowledge in Montaigne and others May 3 — Nick Riggle (University of San Diego) on Schiller, freedom, and aesthetic value May 10 — Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego) on Vasconcelos and Mexican philosophy of culture May 17 — Clerk Shaw (Tennessee) on Epicurean philosophy May 29 (weds) — Marko Malink (NYU) on history of philosophy of logic June 7 — Michael Hardimon (UC San Diego) on Hegel and race [*postponed*]

2017-18

Fall 2017 Oct 6 — Joe Stratmann (UCSD), ‘Kant’s Mathematical Antinomies and the Problem of Circular Conditioning’ Oct 20 — Brian Tracz (UCSD), ‘Kant on Images’ Oct 27 — Blythe Greene (UCSD), ‘Negation, Contradiction, and Kind-Crossing in Posterior Analytics 1.11’ Nov 3 — Michael LeBuffe (Otago), ‘Ideas in Spinoza’s Metaphysics’ Nov 17 — Hynek Bartos (Prague), ‘Aristotle Reads Hippocrates’ Dec 1 — Lisa Shabel (Ohio State), ‘Kant on the ‘ostensive construction’ of mathematical concepts’ Winter 2018 January 19 *9:30am* — Christopher Yeomans (Purdue), on Hegel on space and time January 23 (Tues) *10am* — Eric Schliesser (Ghent), ‘Weird Metaphysical Modality and Newton’s and Clarke’s Polemics with Spinoza’ February 9 — Marcela Garcia (Morelia/UNAM), on Schelling’s reception of Aristotle March 2 — Matias Slavov (UCLA), ‘The Intelligibility of Universal Gravitation – What is Hume’s Position?’ March 9 — Andrew Cooper (University College, London), ‘Kant on natural history’ March 16 — Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva/Athens), on Aristotle on color Spring 2018 April 6 — Nate Rockwood (BYU) on Locke on faith and reason April 20 — Rosalind Chaplin (UCSD) on Kant and the size of the world May 11 *11am* — Amy Wendling (Creighton) (co-sponsored with International Institute) on Marxism, time, and labor May 25 –Lucy Allais (UCSD) on Kant and the disunity of the self June 1 — Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College) on Aristotle 2016-17 Fall 2016 Sept 30 Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins) Do the ancients see value in humanity? Oct 7 Andrew Wong (UCSD) on the methodology of Pyrrhonian skepticism Oct 21 Tim Jankowiak (Towson) Kant on the law of continuity Nov 4 JP Messina (UCSD) Markets and Motives: On Motivational “Crowding Out” in Kant and Smith Dec 2 Phil Horky (Durham) Category theory in the early Academy Winter 2017 Feb 3 Blythe Greene (UCSD) on time in the Timaeus Feb 10 Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia) on the history of black nationalism Feb 24 Matt Brown (UT Dallas) on Dewey’s philosophy of logic and science Mar 6 Nick Stang (Toronto) on Kant’s schematism Spring 2017 Apr 3 Clinton Tolley UCSD) on Edith Stein and the experience of intersubjectivity Apr 7 Anthony Bruno (Toronto) on Fichte’s ‘genetic’ deduction of the categories Apr 28 Peter Myrdal (Turku) on Leibniz on substance and force May 19 Deborah Brown (Queensland) on Descartes and substantial union June 2 Brian Tracz (UCSD) on modern German philosophy of perception 2015-16 Fall 2015 Oct 2 Ben Sheredos (UCSD) Brentano’s Act Psychology was not Aristotelian (or, wasn’t empirical) Oct 16 Peter Yong (UCSD) on Hegel and perception Oct 30 Eric Watkins (UCSD) Kant on real grounds and conditions Nov 6 Samuel Murray (Notre Dame) on Aquinas and certa malitia Nov 13 Dorothea Frede (Hamburg) on Aristotle and reasonable emotions Dec 4 David Forman (UNLV) on Leibniz, progress, and eternal recurrence Winter 2016 Jan 8 Sebastian Bender (Rice) on Leibniz and the principle of sufficient reason Feb 12 Rafeeq Hasan (Amherst) on freedom and poverty in the Kantian state Feb 19 Don Rutherford (UCSD) On the wisdom of the moderns Feb 26 Jim Kreines (Claremont McKenna) Against the ‘new’ Kant Spring 2016 Apr 1 Michael White (Arizona State) on ancient philosophy Apr 5 Lucy Allais (UCSD/Wits) on Kant and racism Apr 8 Ana Laura Edelhoff (Humboldt/Berlin) on Aristotle’s categories Apr 22 Joseph Stratmann (UCSD) on Kant and the transcendental ideal June 10 Daniel Sutherland (Illinois-Chicago) on Kant’s applied mathematics 2014-15 Fall 2014 Oct 24 David Brink (UCSD) Completeness and Realism about Eudaimonia: Lessons from the Big Rock Candy Mountains Nov 14 Erik Olson (UCSD) on Spinoza on modality Nov 21 Marcy Lascano (Cal State Long Beach) on Margaret Cavendish’s metaphysics Dec 12 Peter Yong (UCSD) on Hegel Winter 2015 Feb 13 Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame) On Kant’s ‘tragic problem’ Feb 20 Peter Yong (UCSD) on modern European philosophy Feb 27 Stephen Zylstra (Toronto) On Spinoza on Necessity, Perfection, and Divine Immutability Mar 13 Derk Pereboom (Cornell) On transcendental arguments in Kant (and after) Spring 2015 Mar 30 [Monday!] Jennifer Uleman (SUNY Purchase) “How would you regard a friend?” On Suicide, Friendship, and Self-Regard in Kant Apr 10 Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) Conceptions of Substance in Descartes and Leibniz�s Rejection of Materialism Apr 24 Lucy Allais (UCSD) Transcendental Idealism in the Transcendental Aesthetic May 15 Michael Oberst (Berlin) Kant, Causal Skepticism, and the Refutation of Idealism May 22 Paula Gottlieb (Wisconsin) Aristotle, the Principle of Non-Contradiction, and Posterior Analytics A 11 2013-14 Fall 2013 Oct 11 Karolina Huebner (Toronto) on Spinoza, the affects, and identity Oct 18 Pierre Destrée (Louvain) on poetics and politics in Aristotle’s /Poetics/ Oct 25 Eric Watkins (UCSD) on Kant and the unconditioned Nov 8 Kristen Inglis (Pittsburgh) on Aristotle and rational desire Nov 22 Dan Schwartz (UCSD) on utopia and progress in Bacon’s /The New Atlantis/ Dec 6 Kristen Irwin (Biola) on Locke, Bayle, and religious (in)tolerance Winter 2014 Feb 7 Monte Johnson (UCSD) “Aristotle’s Architectonic Sciences” Feb 21 Clinton Tolley (UCSD) “Intuition, Perception, and Experience in Kant” Feb 28 Daniel Guevara (UC Santa Cruz) “Kant’s conception of philosophy” Mar 7 Eric Watkins (UCSD) and Marcus Willaschek (Frankfurt) “Kant’s Account of Cognition” Spring 2014 Apr 11 Gila Sher (UCSD) on Kant and truth May 12 Peter Anstey (Sydney) on early modern philosophy May 16 Tyke Nunez (Pittsburgh) on Kant and apperception May 23 Jozef Mueller (UC Riverside) on Aristotle, agency, and responsiblity May 30 Florian Marwede (Frankfurt) on Kant, happiness, and the highest good June 6 Zed Adams (New School) on history of philosophy of color 2012-13 FALL 2012 Oct 5 Peter Yong (UCSD) on Hegel and phenomenal givenness Oct 19 Peter Thielke (Pomona) “Intelligible possession and things in themselves” Nov 9 Terry Irwin (Oxford) on Aristotelian ethics WINTER 2013 Jan 18 Daniel Schwartz (UCSD) on Bacon’s natural histories Feb 1 Clinton Tolley (UCSD) on Kant’s use of ‘Erkenntnis’ in its historical context Mar 1 Alex Klein (Cal State Long Beach) on William James and the relation between psychology, science, and religious belief Mar 8 Daniel Althof (UCSD/Jena) on Hegel’s account of the Notion Mar 15 Sam Rickless (UCSD) on Berkeley’s argument for God’s existence in the Principles SPRING 2013 Apr 5 Kyle Sereda (UCSD) “Leibniz on the ontology of numbers” Weds Apr 17, 11-12:30 Carl Posy (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) “Systematicity and Semantics: Kant on the unity of the proposition” [joint meeting with the Southern California working group in History and Philosophy of Logic and Math (HPLM)] Apr 19 Peter Yong (UCSD) on Hegel and ‘sense-certainty’ May 3 Nate Rockwood (UCSD) on Locke on scientific knowledge May 17 Ben Sheredos (UCSD) “Mental acts in Brentano and Husserl: from act-psychology to phenomenology” May 24 Don Rutherford (UCSD) “Perfectionism in Spinoza and Nietzsche” 2011-12 FALL 2011 Sept 30 Sam Rickless (UCSD) Locke on identity Oct 7 Tim Jankowiak (UCSD) Relational and non-relational intentionality in intentionalist interpretations of Kant Oct 14 Daniel Schwartz (UCSD) Baconian natural history and scientific progress Oct 28 Peter Yong (UCSD) on Hegel Nov 5 Malebranche Day with Tom Lennon, Sean Greenberg, Patricia Easton, Julie Walsh and Don Rutherford Nov 18 Eric Schliesser (Ghent) The Newtonians against Spinoza on motion Dec 2 Richard Kraut (Northwestern) Aristotle on friendship WINTER 2012 Feb 3 Martin Lin (Rutgers) on the modal status of absolute space and time in Leibniz Feb 17 Hemmo Laiho (Turku, Finland/UCLA) on Kant and perceptual particulars Feb 24 Henry Mendell (CSU-LA) on Aristotle’s definitions of the soul Mar 2 Marcus Willaschek (Frankfurt) on Kant and the highest good Mar 10 Bonnie Kent (UC Irvine) on Aristotle and Aquinas and virtue SPRING 2012 Apr 13 Don Rutherford (UCSD) on Leibniz and the ideality of space Apr 27 Nate Rockwood (UCSD) on Locke May 11 Samantha Matherne (UC Riverside) on Kant and aesthetic ideas May 18 Michael Hardimon (UCSD) on Heidegger May 25 Julie Walsh (UCSD/Quebec-Montreal) on Locke 2010-11 FALL 2010 Oct 1 James Messina (UCSD), on Kant and the ground of the unity of space Oct 15 Lewis Powell (USC), on Hume’s maxim of conceivability and his treatment of modality Oct 29 Nate Rockwood (UCSD), on Hume’s account of identity Nov 12 Daniel Schwartz (UCSD), on Bacon’s account of sense-perception Nov 19 Henry Allison (UC Davis), on the formulations of the Categorical Imperative in Kant’s /Groundwork/ WINTER 2011 Feb 4 Clinton Tolley (UCSD), on Kant’s doctrine of concepts Feb 11 Monte Johnson (UCSD), on Democritus, on what’s up to us Feb 25 Sean Greenberg (UC Irvine), on Malebranche, consent, and human freedom SPRING 2011 Apr 8 Julie Walsh (UCSD/Western Ontario), on Molyneux’s problem and Locke’s view of freedom Apr 12 Ina Goy (Tuebingen), on Kant, biology, and the argument from design May 6 Tim Jankowiak (UCSD), on Kant on empirical intuitions May 13 Don Rutherford (UCSD), on Leibniz on the ideality of space May 27 Peter Yong (UCSD), on Kant’s analysis of the ontological argument 2009-10 FALL 2009 Oct 2 James Messina (UCSD), “Kant’s hidden ontology of space” Oct 16 Michael Friedman (Stanford), “Kant on geometry and spatial intuition” Nov 6 Daniel Schwartz (UCSD), “Baconian Foundationalism and the Problem of Certainty” Nov 13 Marcy Lascano (CSU Long Beach), “Kant on Leibnizian Emanation, Creation, and God’s Freedom” Nov 20 Timothy Rosenkoetter (Johns Hopkins), “Groundwork III: A Space for Kantian Non-Cognitivism?” WINTER 2010 Jan 15 Jeremy Heis (UC Irvine), “Ernst Cassirer’s Neo-Kantian philosophy of geometry” Jan 29 Eric Watkins and Kimberly Brewer (UCSD), “A Difficulty Still Awaits: Kant, Spinoza, and the Threat of Theological Determinism” Feb 5 Monte Johnson (UCSD), “A syllogistic, mathematical, and mechanistic model of Aristotelian explanation and answer to Socratesʼ criticism of natural science in Platoʼs Phaedo” Mar 5 Matthew Shockey (Indiana, South Bend), “Heidegger’s anxiety and Descartes’ uncertainty” SPRING 2010 Apr 9 Don Rutherford (UCSD), “Hobbes on Virtue and the Laws of Nature” Apr 23 Tim Jankowiak (UCSD), “Kant on Sensation and the Matter of Appearances” May 14 Sam Rickless (UCSD), on 17th century accounts of qualities June 4 Clinton Tolley (UCSD), “Kant’s Transcendental Logic as a General Logic” 2008-9 SPRING 2009 Lara Ostaric (St. Michael’s), on aesthetic judgment in German Idealism Peter Myrdal (Uppsala/UCLA), on Leibniz on happiness Daniel Schwartz, “Leaping to Conclusions Inductively: The Case of Francis Bacon” Tim Jankowiak, on Kant, sensation, reality, and phenomenalism Nate Rockwood, on Locke and personal identity Josef Cressotti (UC Riverside), on Kant, pleasure, and judgments of taste WINTER 2009 Karolina Huebner (Chicago/UCSD), on Spinoza and the reality of finite things Clinton Tolley, on Kant, logic, and truth Aaron Garrett (Boston Univ), on Bishop Butler and ‘bullshit’ Erin Frykholm, on Hume on character FALL 2008 Sam Rickless, “Berkeley on the perception of physical objects Kristen Irwin, “The Autonomy of Reason: Bayle’s Skeptico-Rationalist Conception of Reason” Matt Brown, “Evidence in John Dewey’s Theory of Inquiry” 2007-8 SPRING 2008 Daniel Schwartz, “On Communicating to Cavemen: Plato and the Problems of Didactic Persuasion” Tim Jankowiak, “The Subjects of Singular Judgments in Kant’s Logic and Theory of Experience” Karolina Huebner (Chicago), “Spinoza, Hobbes, and rhetoric” Elliot Paul (Yale), “Cartesian notions of certainty and doubt” Don Rutherford, “The History of Philosophy as Philosophy” WINTER 2008 Matt Brown, “John Dewey’s theory of inquiry” Helmut Heit (Hannover), “Truth and Effect: Background, Content and Current Topicality of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science” Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt/Berkeley), “The Unity of Reason and the Diversity of Life: The Idea of a System in Kant and in Nineteenth Century Philosophy” Juhana Lemetti (Helsinki), “Late Hobbes and maker’s knowledge” FALL 2007 James Messina, “Spatial Relations, Different Places, and the Possibility of Coordination: The First Metaphysical Exposition Revisited” Erin Frykholm, “Feeling and Sentiment in Hume’s Moral Theory” Clinton Tolley, “Logical Forms as Objects of Intuition in Husserl’s Sixth Logische Untersuchung” David Owen (Arizona), “Belief, Causal Reasoning, and the Passions” Kristen Irwin, “Corrosive Reason and Epistemic Immunity: Pierre Bayle on Reason and the Mysteries” 2006-7 SPRING 2007 James Messina, “Unity Amidst Diversity: The Place of Space in Kant’s Account of Self-Awareness and Objective Experience” Susan Castro (UCLA), “Kant’s Aristotelian Path from Experience to Moral Metaphysics in the First Critique and the Groundwork” Tim Jankowiak, “Berkeley’s ‘Master Argument’: Its Shape and Where It Doesn’t Fail” Dan Garber (Princeton), “Activity and Causality” Wayne Martin (Essex), “Hegel’s Failed Confessional Enterprise” WINTER 2007 Doug Hutchinson (Toronto) and Monte Johnson, “Reconstructing Aristotle’s Lost Protrepticus” Lisa Shapiro (SFU), “Rethinking Descartes’s Institution of Nature: The Passions of the Soul and Body-Mind Causation” Mary Domski (New Mexico), “Naturalism, Nominalism, and the Mathematical Treatment of Nature: Reconsidering Locke’s Relationship to Newton” David Brink, “Mill’s Ambivalence about Duty” FALL 2006 Matt Kisner (South Carolina), “Virtuous Passions: Spinoza on the Power of Passivity” Henry Allison (UC Davis), “Hume’s Philosophical Insouciance: A Reading of Treatise 1.4.7” James Messina, “Catching Kant’s ‘I’: Knowing Oneself as an Object in the First Critique” Monte Johnson, “Aristotle on the Value of the Sciences” Eric Watkins, “Kant on the Hiddenness of God” 2005-6 SPRING 2006 Susan Castro (UCLA), “The Transcendental Analytic of Groundwork II” Wayne Martin (Essex), “Conscience and Consciousness: Rousseau’s Critique of the Stoic Theory of Oikeosis” Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), “Subjects, Things and Properties: On Leibniz’s Ontological Approach” Matt Brown, “To See Like a Child: John Dewey, the Tao, and Nonconceptual Experience” Holly Andersen (Pittsburgh) and Rick Grush, “The History of the Specious Present Doctrine: From Reid to Hodgson and ‘E.R. Clay'” R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford), “Is Modus Ponens Analytic sensu Kant?” WINTER 2005 Helmut Heit (Hanover/UCSD) , “Origins of Scientific Thought in Ancient Ionia?” John Whipple (UC Irvine), “Hobbes on Miracles in Leviathan” Dale Dorsey, “Humean Constructivism and the Relativity Problem(s)” Adam Streed, “Mill’s Radical Feminism” Babette Babich (Fordham), “The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic” FALL 2005 Don Rutherford, “Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Experience” Jens Timmermann (St Andrews), “Acting from Duty” Michael Tiboris, “Stoic Children: The Moral Psychology of the Cradle” James Messina, “Making Raum for Nonconceptual Content: The Place of Intuitions in Kant’s Epistemology” 2004-5 SPRING 2005 Eric Watkins, “Kant on Transcendental Laws” Kristen Irwin, “Bayle seulement philosophe? Challenging Gianluca Mori’s Reading of Bayle” Holly Andersen (Pittsburgh, HPS) and Rick Grush, “History of the ‘Specious Present’ I: From Reid to Hodgson and Clay” Don Rutherford, “Leibniz as Idealist” WINTER 2005 Eric Watkins, “Making Sense of Mutual Interaction: Simultaneity and the Equality of Action and Reaction” Kory Schaff, “Hegel’s Solution to Poverty?” Charlie Kurth, “Dissolving Wilson’s Puzzle About Spinoza’s Theory of Falsity” Matt Brown, “A Deweyan Inquiry into Rorty’s Attack on Inquiry into Inquiry” Robert Merrihew Adams (Oxford), “The Priority of the Perfect in the Philosophical Theology of the Continental Rationalists” Susan Castro (UCLA), “The Method of Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Groundwork I” FALL 2004 Rick Grush, “Berkeley and the Spatiality of Vision” Sam Rickless, “Is Locke’s Theory of Knowledge Inconsistent?” Luke Robinson, “Ross, Conflicts of Obligation, and the Concept of a Prima Facie Obligation” Lex Newman (Utah), “Descartes on the Will” Ryan Hickerson, “Where Do (Kantian) Concepts Come From?” Michael Gill (Arizona), “Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth” 2003-4 SPRING 2004 Joseph Schear (Chicago), “Heidegger on Ontological Difference” Kory Schaff, “Perpetual Peace or Endless Politics? Kant, Hegel, and the Politics of Globalization” Eric Watkins, “On the Necessity and Nature of Simples: Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Early Kant” Melissa Johnson, “Is Kant’s General Logic Extensional or Intensional?” Greg Shirley, “Heidegger and the Old and New Logic” WINTER 2004 Matthew Kisner, “Descartes’s Psychologism” Matt Egan, “The Issue of Unity in Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy” Carl Sachs, “Is Truth a Useful Fiction? Nietzsche Between Idealism and Empiricism” Wayne Martin, “Fichte’s Transcendental Phenomenology of Agency” FALL 2003 Kristen Irwin, “Heidegger’s Transcendental Phenomenology” Kory Schaff, “Hegel on Work, Freedom, and Community” Ryan Hickerson, “What Was Brentano’s Problem?” John Vella, “Euripides and the Limits of Reason” Falk Wunderlich (Berlin), “Kant’s Theory of Consciousness in Context” 2002-3 SPRING 2003 Matthew Kisner, “Descartes’ Psychologism” P.D. Magnus, “Reid’s Dilemma and the Uses of Pragmatism” Don Rutherford, “Hobbes’s New Science of Ethics” Ryan Hickerson, “Logical Normativity and Husserlian Fulfillment” WINTER 2003 Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Discussion of Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Don Rutherford, “A Leibnizian Theory of Spontaneity” Kristen Irwin, “‘True’ Kantian Pluralism” Wayne Martin, “An Exercise in Kantian Logic” Andrew Youpa (UC Irvine), “Spinoza’s Ethical Objectivism” FALL 2002 Rick Grush, “What Berkeley Should Have Said” Matthew Kisner, “Skepticism and Idealism in the Early Descartes” Wayne Martin, “The Judgment Stroke and the Truth-Predicate: Frege and the Phenomenology of Judgment” Eric Watkins, “Kant’s Model of Causality” 2001-2 SPRING 2002 Matthew Kisner,”Lions, Polecats and Foxes: Would Hobbesian Subjects Agree to Covenant?” Ryan Hickerson,”Phenomenology without Phenomena: The Riddle of Intentional Objects in Husserl’s Logical Investigations” Carl Sachs, “Subspecie Spinozae: The Spinoza-Nietzsche Connection” Kory Schaff,”Socializing the Mind? McDowell’s Hegelianism Revisited” P. D. Magnus, “Underdetermination and Aspirations of Certainty”