The Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization and
San Francisco State University present:

TEMPO 2026

May 1st-2nd in San Francisco

Celebrating 10 Years of TEMPO

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Program

 
11:30

Coffee and Conference Registration outside Humanities 391

 
12:00

Humanities 391: "A Problem for Humean Modality," Kevin Busch, Claremont McKenna College

Humanities 392: "Modernizing Descartes's Algebra: Leibniz's Calculus of Situations Revisited," Jen Nguyen, Bucknell University

 
1:00

Humanities 391: "Kant's Internalist Account of Intentionality," Tim Jankowiak, Towson University

Humanities 392: "Are Leibniz's Two Realms at Peace?" Aaron Wells, Metropolitan State University of Denver

 
2:00

Humanities 391: "Constructing New Canons: A Pedagogical Chat," Patrick Frierson, Whitman College

Humanities 392: "Ideas and their Objects: A Reassessment of Spinoza's Parallelism," Raphaelle Dupont, University of Toronto

 
3:00

Humanities 391: "Experiential Learning in the Early Modern Philosophy Classroom," Areins Pelayo, Grand Valley State University

Humanities 392: "Disambiguating the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Émilie Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics," Justin Steinberg, Cornell

 
4:00

Humanities 391: "If You Can Teach Hume (Leibniz, Aristotle), You Can Teach Zhuangzi (Wäldä Həywät, Dōgen)," Virginia Sharpe, Rutgers—New Brunswick

Humanities 392: "From Non-Extended Simples to Extended Bodies: Revisiting Du Châtelet's Argument," Qiu Lin, Simon Fraser University

 
5:00

Plenary: "Newton, Turner, and Barrow on God, Space, and Motion", Patrick Connolly, Johns Hopkins University

 
6:30

Social time!

 
 
 
 
 
9:00

Humanities 391: "Methodological Idealism," James Mattingly, Georgetown University

Humanities 392: "Teresa of Ávila on the Veridicality of Mystical Experience," Zachary Agoff, Stanford Online High School

 
10:00

Humanities 391: "A Reinterpretation and Internal Critique of Shepherd's Argument for the Causal Maxim," Alvaro Antonio Prado Velásquez, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee

Humanities 392: "Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Rational and Contented Life," Brandon Smith, University of Wisconsin—Madison

 
11:00

Humanities 391: "The Miraculous as the Marvelous: Shepherd on Extraordinary Occurrences as Instructive," Louise Daoust, Eckerd College

Humanities 392: "Descartes on Skill and Practical Knowledge," Alison Chen, UCLA Philosophy

 
12:00

Lunch Break

 
1:30

Humanities 391: "Astell's Occasional Occasionalism: Astell on Causation and Sensation," Eric Stencil , Utah Valley University

Humanities 392: "Gabrielle Suchon on Curiosity," Margaret Matthews, Assumption University

 
2:30

Humanities 391: "'Something between a Man and a Beast': Changelings and Moral Personhood in John Locke," Matthew Koshak, Georgetown University

Humanities 392: "Marriage as Unfreedom: Servitude, Slavery, and Tradwives," Allauren Forbes, McMaster University

 
3:30

Humanities 391: "Echo Chambers and the Early Modern Witch Hunts," Julie Walsh, Wellesley College

Humanities 392: "Love and Reciprocity for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz," Sergio Armando Gallegos Ordorica, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

 
4:30

Keynote Address: "Can Mary Astell Make Room for Implicit Bias in Her Epistemology?" Jessica Gordon-Roth, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

 
6:00

Closing remarks and social time!

 

Please contact our Program Committee Chair for 2026 with any questions.

 
 

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