2015 Locke Workshop Program

UWO-CUNY John Locke Workshop

May 1-3, 2015

London, Ontario

Friday May 1

8:30-9:00         Coffee

9:00-10:15       Nathan Rockwood (Virginia Tech) “Locke on Scientific Knowledge”

Andrew Janiak (Duke) (commentator)

10:15-10:45     Coffee Break

10:45-12:00     Patrick Connolly (Iowa State) “Locke and the Methodology of Newton’s Principia”

Bill Harper (Western) (commentator)

12:00-1:45       Lunch

1:45-3:00         Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester) and Ed Slowik (Winona State) “Locke on Temporal and Spatial Measures”

Katherine Dunlop (UT Austin) (commentator)

3:00-3:30         Rotman Speaker Reception

3:30-5:00         Peter Anstey (Sydney) (Rotman Speakers Series) “Locke on Measurement”

7:00-10:00       Dinner

Saturday May 2

8:30-9:00         Coffee

9:00-10:15       Lex Newman (Utah) “Locke’s Empiricism and His Mechanist Idea of Body”

Antonia LoLordo (UVA) (commentator)

10:15-10:45     Coffee Break

10:45-12:00     Allison Kuklok (St. Michael’s) “Locke, Hume, and Causal Power in Bodies”

Michael Jacovides (Purdue) (commentator)

12:00-1:30       Lunch

1:30-2:45         Benjamin Hill (Western) “Natural Powers in Locke’s Philosophy of Science: A Contradiction?”

Elliot Rossiter (Western) (commentator)

2:45-3:00         Coffee Break

3:00-4:15         Patrick Arnold (Nebraska) “Locke’s Conventionalism about Biological Species”

Susanna Goodin (Wyoming) (commentator)

4:15-4:30         Coffee Break

4:30-5:45         Margaret Atherton (UW- Milwaukee) (Invited) “Locke and Berkeley on Real Knowledge

7:00-10:00       Dinner

Sunday May 3

8:30-9:00         Coffee

9:00-10:15       Kathryn Tabb (Pittsburgh) “Locke’s Mad Errors: Associated Ideas and the Ethics of Belief”

Louis Charland (Western) (commentator)

10:15-10:30     Coffee Break

10:30-11:45     Jessica Gordon-Roth (CUNY) “Locke, Clarke, and Collins on the Possibility of Thinking Matter”

William Uzgalis (Oregon State) (commentator)

11:45-1:00       Lunch (for those traveling later in the day)

Session Chairs: Edwin McCann (USC), Julie Walsh (UQAM), Benjamin Hill (Western) and Jessica Gordon-Roth (CUNY)

Organizers: Benjamin Hill and Jessica Gordon-Roth

Registration Deadline for those who wish to attend, but who are not on the program:

April 15

To register please send an email to: johnlockesociety (at) uwo (dot) ca