Alan Nelson Retirement Conference
May 3 @ 9:00 am - May 4 @ 5:00 pm
Celebrating Alan Nelson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
May 3-4, 2023
Friday May 3
9:00-9:45: Phillip Bold (Minnesota) “Later Wittgenstein on the Analysis of Experience: A Problem for Early Modern Empiricism?”
9:45-10:30: Emily Kelahan (Dickinson): TBD
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00-11:45: Lex Newman (Utah): “Descartes’ Conception of Knowledge”
11:45-12:30: Aurora Yu (UNC) “Sensation and the Innate Idea of the Mind-Body Union”
12:30-1:45: Lunch
1:45-2:30: David Cunning (Iowa) “Systematic Thinking in the History of Philosophy – And a Point about Confusion”
2:30-3:15: Break
3:15-4:45: Remarks from Departmental Colleagues
4:45-5:00: Break
5:00-5:30: Remarks from Alan Nelson
Dinner
Saturday May 4
9:00-9:45: Jeff McDonough (Harvard): “Time for Du Châtelet”
9:45-10:15: Stephen Puryear (NCSU): “Can Animals Be Owned?”
10:15-10:30: Break
10:30-11:15: Michaela Tiller (St. Michael’s): “The Strict Interpretation of Locke and Cockburn”
11:15-12:00: Ken Brown (Cal Poly): “Locke on Memory”
12:00-1:15: Lunch
1:15-2:00: David Landy (SFSU): “Shepherd on the Representation of Causal Relations”
2:00-2:45: John Whipple (UIC): “Leibniz’s Grounding Argument for Simple Substances”
2:45-3:15: Break
3:15-4:00: Noa Shein (Hebrew University): “Part One of the Ethics and the Deliverance from Confusion”
4:00-4:45: Cathay Liu (NUS): “TBD, Possibly Descartes and Xunzi”
