Conference Line-up: Sentiment and Reason in Early Modern Ethics

On March 21st and 22nd, I will be hosting a conference on Sentiment and Reason in Early Modern Ethics here at UB.  As of this week, the full line-up of speakers and commenters has been finalized.  I am very excited about the way the conference is shaping up!  I want to stress how impressed I was with the breadth and quality of submissions I received for the conference.  It seems like there is a lot of interesting work being done in early modern ethics, and I hope that we start seeing more opportunities for people to present work on those topics.

Here is the full lineup for the conference:

Invited Speakers:

• Kate Abramson (Indiana)
• Rachel Cohon (Albany)
• Geoff Sayre-McCord (Chapel Hill)

Submitted Papers:

“Partial Emotions and Impartial Moral Judgments: Can Humean Sentimentalists Have it Both Ways?”

• Paper by: Max Barkhausen (NYU)
• Comments from: Miriam Schlieffer-McCormick (Richmond)

“The Role of Sympathy in Reid’s Action Theory”

• Paper by: Marina Folescu (Missouri-Columbia)
• Comments from: Esther Kroeker (Antwerp)

“Leibniz and the Humean Gap between Knowledge and Motivation”

• Paper by: Julia Jorati (Ohio State University)
• Comments from: Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore)

“Descartes and Princess Elisabeth on the Regulation of Disordered Passions”

• Paper by: Lauren Kopajtic (Harvard)
• Comments from: Shoshana Brassfield (Frostburg)

“Spinoza’s Changing Problem is No Problem At All”

• Paper by: Eugene Marshall (Wellesley)
• Comments from: Martin Lin (Rutgers)

“Adam Smith’s Sentimentalist Account of Reason’s Ability to Motivate”

• Paper by: John McHugh (Denison)
• Comments from: Imola Ilyes (York)