SCHEDULE

All sessions will be held in room 118 of the Classroom and Business Building, which is located due North of the Hilton Hotel on campus, as indicated on this map.

• Friday, 4 November 2016
  • 1:00-2:00: Welcome, coffee, and a (fairly) short paper
    • Gregory Brown (University of Houston), "Some Background to the Leibniz-Caroline-Clarke Correspondence"
  • 2:00-5:15: Session 1 Chair: Mark Kulstad (Rice University)
    • 2:00-3:30: Julia Joráti (Ohio State University), "The Contingency of the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles"
      • Commentator: Martha Bolton (Rutgers)
    • 3:45-5:15: Owen Pikkert (University of Toronto), "Leibniz's arguments from the PSR to the PII"
      • Commentator: Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State)
• Saturday, 5 November 2016
  • 9:00-9:30: Breakfast
  • 9:30-12:45: Session 2 Chair: Donald Rutherford (University of California, San Diego)
    • 9:30-11:00: Martin Lin (Rutgers), "The Modal Status of the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles in the Correspondence with Clarke"
      • Commentator: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oriel College, Oxford University)
    • 11:15-12:45: Jack Davidson (Texas Luthern University), "The Divided Mind—Leibniz & Clarke on Intellect, Will, & Free Choice"
      • Commentator: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
    • 12:40-2:00: Lunch
  • 2:00-5:15: Session 3 Chair: Katherine Dunlop (University of Texas, Austin)
    • 2:00-3:30: Leonardo Ruiz Gómez (Universidad Panamericana, Campus México), "On the relation between the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles and the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence"
      • Commentator: Evelyn Vargas (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
    • 3:45-5:15: Paul Lodge (Mansfield College, Oxford Universty), "Leibniz on the Grounds for the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Correspondence with Clarke"
      • Commentator: John Whipple (University of Illinois, Chicago)
  • 5:30-6:30: LSNA Business Meeting
  • 7:00: Dinner for Conference Participants
• Sunday, 6 December 2016
  • 9:00-9:30: Breakfast
  • 9:30-12:45: Session 4 Chair: Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory University)
    • 9:30-11:00: Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College), "Space-Time Parallelism in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence: Vacuums Beyond and Within the World"
      • Commentator: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
    • 11:15-12:45: Gregory Brown (University of Houston), "Did Samuel Clarke really disavow action at a distance in his correspondence with Leibniz?:  Newton, Clarke, and Bentley on gravitation and action at a distance"
      • Commentator: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)