Coffee and conference info available!

Panel: Catherine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft
Elle Gordon, McGill / New Narratives
Allauren Forbes, McMaster University

Room One: "Cloistering as Respite in Early Modern Women's Writings," Tyra Lennie, McMaster University

Room Two: "Shepherd's Accounts of Space and Time,"
David Landy, San Francisco State University

Room One: "Women: 'Akin to Persons',"
RW Martins, The New School for Social Research

Room Two: "Mary Shepherd's Paradox of Nonexistence,"
Keota Fields, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Room One: "Descartes' and Spinoza's Accounts of Freedom: Self-Determination in the Meditations and the Ethics,"
Emmaline Secada, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Room Two: "Mary Shepherd on Space and Minds," Manuel Fasko, University of Basel and Peter West, College of Charleston

Plenary: Descartes on the Perception of Aesthetic Properties
Domenica Romagni, Colorado State University

Social time!

Panel: Newtonian Themes in Du Châtelet
Qiu Lin, Cornell University
Aaron Wells, Paderborn University
Andrew Janiak,Duke University

Room One: "The Role of God in the Philosophy of Émilie Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics," Liz Goodnick, MSU Denver

Room Two: "Damaris Masham on Loving Persons,"
Getty Lustila, Northeastern University

Lunch Break and TEMPO Business Meeting

Room One: "Berkeley and Subconscious Information Processing: A Reply to Brook," Todd DeRose, The Ohio State University

Room Two: "The Dawn of Responsibility in Thoughts and Sentiments," Iziah C Topete, Penn State University

Room One: "Cudworth's Conscious Self,"
Matthew Leisinger, York University

Room Two: "Can there be romantic love without jealousy? The debate between José Pérez de Montoro and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in their romances de celos,"Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Room One: "Diagnosing Hume's Problem with His Account of Personal Identity," Tim Black, California State University, Northridge

Room Two: "The Grounds of Moral Equality in Im Yunjidang and Anne Conway," Hope Sample, Carleton College and
Hwa Yeong Wang, Emory University

Keynote: Sympathetic Curiosity: Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Hamilton, and the Bechdel Test in the History of Philosophy
Deborah Boyle, College of Charleston

Closing remarks and social time!

Plenary Talk: "The Disharmony of Leibniz and Du Châtelet,"
Fatema Amijee, University of British Columbia

Room One: "Du Châtelet on Physical Qualities and Physical Explanation," Qiu Lin, Duke University

Room Two: "Spinoza on Democracy and Group Agency," Matthew Schrepfer, Brown University

Room One: "A Powerful Metaphysics? A case for Mary Shepherd's proto‑dispositionalism," Manuel Fasko, University of Basel

Room Two: "Spinoza and Epicurus on Pleasure: Healthy and Happy Natural Being" Brandon Smith, McGill University

Room One: "Shepherd's Account of Mental Representation,"
David Landy, San Francisco State University

Room Two: "Marinella's Reclamation of Dress and Outward Beauty,"
Tyra Lennie, McMaster University

Panel: Teaching Through Texts
Julia Jorati (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Lewis Powell (SUNY Buffalo)
Patrick Connolly (Lehigh University)

Panel: Wollstonecraft: Cross-Genre Philosopher
Allauren Forbes (McMaster University)
Charlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)
Martin Fog Lantz Arndal (University of Copenhagen)

Room One: "Applying Descartes's Causal Principle to the Passions of the Soul," Evangelian Collings, University of Pittsburgh

Room Two: "Pufendorf's Legacy in Hume's Account of Virtue,"
Enrico Galvagni, University of St. Andrews

Room One: "Imagination and Representation in Berkeley's Theory of Perception," Evan Sommers, UC Irvine

Room Two: "Hume on 'Delicate Sympathy',"
James Chamberlain, University of Sheffield

Room One: "Testimony, Induction, and the Language of Nature,"
Todd DeRose, The Ohio State University

Room Two: "Individuation and the Role of 'Interest' in Descartes' Method of Happiness," Jaleel Fotovat-Ahmadi, Boston University

Keynote Address: "Berkeley and Reid on Perceptual Learning,"
Becko Copenhaver, Washington University in St. Louis

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Panel: Jane Austen, Philosopher
Tim Black (California State University, Northridge) on Sense and Sensibility
Margaret Watkins (St. Vincent College) on Emma
Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham University) on Persuasion

Social Time

Panel: Race and Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy
Dwight K. Lewis (University of Central Florida)
Justin E.H. Smith (University of Paris)

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Keynote Address: "Hume, History and Monuments"
Andre C. Willis (Religious Studies, Brown University)
Emily Kelehan (Philosophy, Illinois Wesleyan)

Social Time

Keynote Address: "Metaphysics and Early Modern Misogyny"
Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)

Panel on Race in Early Modern Philosophy

"Valuing the Margins: Spinoza's Philosophy as Intersectional,"
Patrick Miller (University of South Florida)

"Amerindians, Barbarians, and Slaves. Aristotle and the Valladolid Controversy," Camilo Martinez (Princeton University)

"Inferior Creatures and Natural and Artificial Inferiority in Hume's Theory of Justice," Steve Mischler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Comments by Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)