Eastern Division
Chair: Robert M. Adams (Yale University)
Speaker: Richard Arthur (Middlebury College), "Infinite Aggregates and
Phenomenal Wholes"
Pacific Division
Chair: Alan Nelson (University of
California, Irvine)
Speaker: Allison Coudert (Arizona State University), "Leibniz and the
Kabbalah"
Central Division
Chair: Daniel Garber (University of
Chicago)
Speaker: Laurence Carlin (Rice University), "Infinite Accumulations and
Pantheistic Implications: Leibniz and the Anima Mundi"
(Winner of the 1997 Leibniz Society Essay Competition)
Commentator: Gregory Brown (University of Houston)
Eastern Division
Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Fabrizio Mondadori (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Duns
Scotus and Leibniz on the Possible"
Joint Session of the North American Spinoza Society and the Leibniz
Society of North America
Chair: Paul Bagley (Loyola University)
Speaker: Mark Kulstad (Rice Universty), "Leibniz, Spinoza, and Tschirnhaus:
Philosophical Relations 1675-76"
Speaker: Christia Mercer (Columbia University), "Spinoza and Leibniz on
Substance and Mode"
Commentator: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
Pacific Division
Chair: John Carriero (University of California, Los Angeles)
Speaker: Paul Lodge (Tulane University), "The Failure of Leibniz's
Correspondence with De Volder"
(Winner of the 1998 Leibniz Society Essay Competition)
Commentator: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
Central Division
Chair: Jan Cover (Purdue University)
Speaker: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College), "Structure and Reality in
Leibniz's Metaphysics"
Eastern Division
Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Catherine Wilson (University of British Columbia), "Plenitude and
Compossibility"
Pacific Division
Chair: Donald Rutherford (University of California, San Diego)
Speaker: Franklin T. Perkins (Pennsylvania State University), "Ideas and
Self-Reflection"
(Winner of the 1999 Leibniz Society Essay Competition)
Commentator: Nicholas Jolley (Syracuse University)
Speaker: Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv University), "Leibniz: Polemics and Epistemological Pluralism"
Central Division
Chair: Jan Cover (Purdue University)
Speaker: Robert M. Sleigh, Jr. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
"Leibniz's Theodicy"
Eastern Division
Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Glenn Hartz (The Ohio State University), "Why
Leibniz Wouldn't, Couldn't, and Shouldn't Endorse Phenomenalism"
Pacific Division
Chair: J.A. Cover (Purdue University)
Speaker: M. Rosa Antognazza (University of Aberdeen), "Trinity and Incarnation: The Relationship Between Philosophy and Revealed Theology in Leibniz's Thought" (Winner of the 2000 Leibniz Society Essay Competition)
Commentator: Michael Griffin (Wake Forest University)
Central Division
Joint Session of the Leibniz Society of North America and
the North American Kant Society
Chair: Samuel Levey (Dartmouth College)
Speaker: Donald Rutherford (University of California, San Diego), "Kant and Leibniz on the Principle of Succession"
Speaker: Rae Langton (University of Edinburgh), "Mirrors and Windows:
Kant and Leibniz on the Limits of Perception"
Eastern Division
Chair: Jan Cover (Purdue University)
Speaker: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago), "Leibniz and Idealism"
Pacific Division
Chair: Kenneth Clatterbaugh (University of Washington)
Speaker: Michael Futch
(Augusta State University), "Leibniz on Plenitude, Infinity, and the
Eternity of the World"
(Winner of the 2001 Leibniz Society Essay Competition)
Commentator:
Gregory Brown (University of Houston)
Central Division
Chair: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshall College)
Speaker: George Gale (University of Missouri, Kansas City), "The Best of All Possible Physics: Tracing Some Interactions among Metaphysical Perfection, Physical Optimality, and Method in Physics"
Commentator: Laurence Carlin (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh)