TEMPO 2024

A Modern Conference

April 26-27th, 2024 in Denver

 
 
Modern Philosophers arrayed around a sunset shot of downtown Denver
 
 
 
 

Program

 
12:00

Coffee and conference info available!

 
12:30

Panel: Explanation and Gravitation: Boyle, Newton and Early Modern Science in Dialogue
Patrick Connolly, Johns Hopkins University
Dana Matthiessen, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
James Mattingly, Georgetown University

 
2:00

Room 250: "Montaigne on the Cultivation of Innocence," Chris Edelman, University of the Incarnate Word

Room 260: "Locke on the Demonstrability of Morality," Spencer Cardwell, University of Colorado Boulder

 
3:00

Room 250: "Managing Boredom with Sophie de Grouchy," Getty L. Lustila, Northeastern University

Room 260: "Shepherd's Account of Kinds as Like Causes," Judith Crane, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

 
4:00

Room 250: "Marriage, Liberation, and Jane Austen," Tyra Lennie, McMaster University

Room 260: "Mary Shepherd on kind membership, ordinary inductions, and the identity of cause and effect," Robert Ziegler, University of Virginia, Travis Tanner, University of Virginia

 
5:00

Plenary: Fortuna and War in Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, and Madame de Lafayette
Aminah Hasan-Birdwell, Emory University

 
6:30

Social time!

 
 
 
 
 
9:00

Panel: Causation in Mental Representation, a Conversation Betwixt Philosophers: Hume, Kant, and Shepherd
David Landy, San Francisco State University
Annemarie Butler, Iowa State University
Louise Daoust, Eckerd College

 
11:00

Room 250: "Marriage & Alienated Labor: Cavendish on Chastity," Allauren Forbes, McMaster University

Room 260: "Cognitio VS Scientia: Antognazza, Wolff, and Early-Modern Knowing," Dino Jakusic, University of Warwick, UK

 
12:00

Lunch Break and TEMPO Business Meeting

 
1:30

Room 250: "Margaret Cavendish on Skepticism and Probable Opinion," Andre LeBrun, University of California, Irvine

Room 260: "Du Châtelet's Psychological Theory of Ideal Time ," Robert McQueen, Boston College

 
2:30

Room 250: "Margaret Cavendish on Music," Daniel Whiting, University of Southampton

Room 260: "Hutcheson on Emotion Regulation and the Association of Ideas," Eric Entrican Wilson, Georgia State University

 
3:30

Room 250: "Berkeley against the Infinite Force of Percussion," Scott Harkema, Ohio State University

Room 260: "What Hume said to the Tortoise," Thomas Holden, University of California Santa Barbara

 
4:30

Keynote: Why Read Philosophy by Immoral Philosophers?
Keota Fields, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

 
6:00

Closing remarks and social time!

 
 
 

Please read about TEMPO and contact our Program Committee Chair for 2024 with any questions.