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  • Fall 2024 Workshop

    UNYWMP Workshop at Union College, Fall 2024
    Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor

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    Friday September 20

    Union College Philosophy Department Speaker Series

    Everest Lounge (inside Hale House)

    4:30pm-6:30pm

    Hume’s Final Verdict on Skepticism:

    Evidence and Correction of Skeptical Doubts in Hume’s First
    Enquiry

    Don Garrett (NYU)

    Saturday September 21

    All talks will be in Everest Lounge (inside Hale House).
    Talks should be no longer than 50 minutes long, to allow for 40 minutes Q&A.

    10:10am-11:40am

    Rachel Cohon (SUNY Albany)

    The Role of Gossip in Hume’s Artificial Virtues

    Chair: Maité Cruz (Union)


    11:50am-1:20pm

    Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany)

    Kant’s Perfectionist Constitutivism

    Chair: Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse)


    2:40pm-4:10pm

    Maité Cruz (Union)

    “The corollaries included in the impressions of sense”: Mary Shepherd’s Epistemology

    Chair: Justin Steinberg (Cornell)


    4:20pm-5:50pm

    Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore)

    Apperception and Monad Classification in Leibniz’s Monadology

    Chair: Don Garrett (NYU)


    Sunday September 22

    All talks will be in Everest Lounge (inside Hale House)


    9:30am-11:00am

    Stewart Duncan (SUNY Buffalo)

    Cudworth and Spinoza

    Chair: Karolina Hübner (Cornell)


    11:10am-12:40pm

    Marcus Adams (SUNY Albany)

    Two Principles of Hobbes’s Epistemology

    Chair: Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore)


    1:45pm-3:15pm

    Justin Steinberg (Cornell)

    Hobbes and Spinoza on the State as an Individual

    Chair: Michelle Kosch (Cornell)

Philosophy Department Speaker Series

Since 2013, the Philosophy Department hosts an annual workshop on new work in philosophy, funded by the Ichabod S. Spencer Foundation. Typically held in the spring term, each workshop features a small group of scholars focusing on a focused topic in philosophy. Our 2013 inaugural workshop’s focus was ‘Race and the Enlightenment’, our 2014 workshop’s focus was ‘The Ethics of Forgiveness and Revenge’, and our 2015 workshop’s focus was ‘Critical Reflection and Belief’. The 2018 workshop was on “Physician Assisted Suicide/Medically Assisted Dying”.