Conference in Honor of Don Garrett
May 23 and 24, 2023
New York University Kimmel Center, Room 914 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012
Registration for the conference is free but required. Only registered participants will be admitted to the conference venue by NYU Public Safety. Registration is now closed.
May 23
9:00–9:25 Sign-in and Coffee
9:25–9:30 Welcome
9:30–10:50 Keynote Talk
Michael Della Rocca (Yale University), “Humeanism in Spinoza and Hume: Some Pathologies”
Chair: Nathan Sasser (Greenville Technical College)
10:50–11:00 Break
11:00–1:00 Spinoza Panel
Karolina Hübner (Cornell University), “On True Ideas”
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University), “Spinoza’s Necessitarianism:
Modality and Time”
John Morrison (Barnard College), “Spinoza on Mind, Body, and
Numerical Identity”
Chair: Jason Fisette (University of Nevada, Reno)
1:00–3:00 Lunch Break
3:00–4:20 Keynote Talk
Elizabeth Radcliffe (College of William and Mary), “The Anatomy of Character in Hume’s Treatise”
Chair: Hsueh Qu (National University of Singapore)
4:20–4:30 Break
4:30–6:30 Hume Panel
Rachel Cohon (SUNY Albany), "Self-Obligation without a Mental Act:
Hume on Promising Revisited”
Karl Schafer (University of Texas at Austin), “Mental Faculties and the
Foundations of Hume’s Philosophy”
Peter Millican (University of Oxford), “Debating with Don for Nearly 30 Years:
Induction, Reason, Causation, Necessity, Miracles, and Scepticism”
Chair: Lorraine Besser (Middlebury College)
6:30–7:30 Reception
May 24
9:00–9:30 Sign-in and Coffee
9:30–10:50 Keynote Talk
Christia Mercer (Columbia University), “The Limits of Perfectibility in the Thought of G.W. Leibniz and Anne Conway”
Chair: Graham Clay (University College Dublin)
10:50–11:00 Break
11:00–1:00 Shepherd Panel
Maité Cruz (Union College), “Shepherd on Change and Causation”
David Landy (San Francisco State University), “Shepherd on the Causal
Efficacy of Space and Time”
Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia), “Mary Shepherd on Mind and Body”
Chair: Timothy Yenter (University of Mississippi)
1:00–3:00 Lunch Break
3:00–4:20 Keynote Talk
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (UNC–Chapel Hill), “Hume’s Theory of Normative Judgment”
Chair: Elena Gordon (McGill University)
4:20–4:30 Break
4:30–7:00 Naturalism Panel
Justin Steinberg (CUNY, Brooklyn College), “Spinoza’s Political Naturalism”
Angela Coventry (Portland State University), “Spinoza and Hume on Miracles”
Thomas Holden (UC Santa Barbara), “Hume’s Sensus Probabilitatis”
Louis Loeb (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “The Case Against Cartesian
Rationalism in Hume and Reid”
Chair: David Barnett (University of Toronto)
We gratefully acknowledge generous support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU, the New York Institute of Philosophy, and the NYU Philosophy Department
If you have any questions, please email us.