16-18 July 2018, Mansfield College, Oxford
Keynote Speakers
Lisa Downing (Ohio State) & Ed McCann (University of Southern California)
Schedule
Monday, July 16
9:00-10:15: Sean Silver (University of Michigan), “What is John Locke’s Idea of Complexity?”
Commentator: Kathryn Tabb (Columbia University)
10:15-11:30: Shigeyuki Aoki (University of Aizu), “The Development of Analogy in Locke’s Philosophy”
Commentator: Matt Priselac (University of Oklahoma)
11:30-12:00: Coffee & Biscuits (in college)
12:00-1:15 Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Locke on Infinity as Quantity”
Commentator: Benjamin Hill (Western University)
1:15-2:15: Lunch (in college)
2:15-3:30: Martin Lenz (Groningen), “Locke’s Life-World: The Teleological Role of Secondary Qualities”
Commentator: Vili Lahteenmaki (University of Helsinki)
3:30-5:15: Keynote Lisa Downing (The Ohio State University), “Qualities, Powers, and Bare Powers in Locke”
Tuesday, July 17
9:00-10:15: James Harris (University of St. Andrews), “Locke versus Filmer revisited”
Commentator: Patrick Connolly (Lehigh University)
10:15-11:30: Hina Nazar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Locke and Rousseau on Educating for Freedom”
Commentator: Shelley Weinberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:30-12:00: Coffee & Biscuits (in college)
12:00-1:15: Giuliana Di Biase (University “G.d’Annunzio”), “Locke’s Coercive Morality”
Commentator: Daniel Layman (Davidson College)
1:15-2:15: Lunch (in college)
2:15-3:30: Kiyoshi Shimokawa (Gakushuin University), “Locke on Toleration and the Harm Principle”
Commentator: Luisa Simonutti (Institute for the History of Modern Philosophical and Scientific Thought)
3:30-4:45: Ed Curley (University of Michigan), “Locke on Religious Toleration”
Commentator: Doug Casson (St. Olaf College)
Wednesday, July 18
9:00-10:15: Emily Kelahan (Illinois Wesleyan University), “Locke and Hume on Miracles, Testimony, and Probability”
Commentator: David Owen (University of Arizona)
10:15-11:30: Elisabeth Thorsson (University of York), “Revisiting Locke’s Thinking Matter: A Third Way?”
Commentator: Matt Leisinger (Yale University)
11:30-12:00: Coffee & Biscuits (in college)
12:00-1:15: Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria and University of Hamburg), “Consciousness, Personal Identity, and Repentance in John Locke’s Views on Salvation”
Commentator: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin)
1:15-2:45: Lunch (on your own)
2:45-4:30: Keynote: Edwin McCann (University of Southern California), “Conventionalism and its Discontents: Locke on Really Nominal Essences and Nominally Real Essences”
7:30: Banquet (in college)
Organizers: Paul Lodge (Mansfield College), Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia), Jessica Gordon-Roth (University of Minnesota)
Registration Fee: 75 £, please register before June 1. Contact the organizers to register.
The 2018 Locke Workshop is supported by:
Mansfield College, University of Oxford
The University of Virginia Philosophy Department
The University of Minnesota Philosophy Department
The John Locke Society (JLS)
The John Locke Society 