TEMPO 2025

A Modern Conference

April 25-26th, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

 

 
 
Modern Philosophers arrayed above a night-time shot of the reflecting pool at the Jefferson Memorial
 
 
 
 

Program

Friday, April 25th
Friday's talks are in New North 311 and New North 202.
Friday's plenaries are all in New North 311.

 
12:00

Coffee and Conference Registration outside New North 202

 
12:30

Plenary: "Shepherd on Mathematics," Maité Cruz, Union College

 
2:00

NN 311: "On Two Assumptions About Shepherd's Defense of the Causal Principle," Keota Fields, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

NN 202: "Gabrielle Suchon on Women's Right to the Pursuit of Knowledge," Margaret Matthews, Assumption University

 
3:00

NN 311: "Cleanthes' Naturally Propagating Books and Borges' Library of Babel," David Landy, San Francisco State University

NN 202: "John Stuart Mill and Existentialism," Usman Mehboob, Govt. Zamindar Postgraduate College, Gujrat

 
4:00

NN 311: "Kant on the Formality of the 'I think'," Michael Powell, The University of Chicago

NN 202: "Reason and Resistance in Sor Juana," Areins Pelayo, Grand Valley State University

 
 
6:30

Social time!

 
 
 
 

Saturday, April 26th
Saturday's talks are in Old North 205 and New North 204.
Saturday's plenaries are all in Old North 205.

 
9:30

Plenary: "Conway: Type Dualist, Transmutative Monist," Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval, University of California, Davis

 
11:00

ON 205: "Hobbes on Power Estimation and the Passions of the Mind," Claudia Dumitru, Yale University

NN 204: "The Metaphysics of Happiness in Descartes and Mullā Sadrā," Jaleel Fotovat-Ahmadi, Boston University

 
12:00

NN 204: Lunch Break

 
1:30

ON 205: "Humean Philosophy of Science," James Mattingly, Georgetown University

 
2:30

ON 205: "Leibniz's Perspectiva Analogy," Jen Nguyen, Bucknell University

 
3:30

Keynote Address: "Cavendish (and Aristotle and Augustine but not Hobbes) on Virtue," Daniel Whiting, University of Southampton

 
5:00

Closing remarks and social time!

 

Please contact our Program Committee Chair for 2025 with any questions.

 
 

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