48th Annual Cincinnati Philosophy Colloquium

May 11- May 12, 2012
University of Cincinnati

425 and 417 Tangeman University Center

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the College of Arts & Sciences and the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center [original link path: https://www.artsci.uc.edu/taft.html].

• Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Indiana University
  • Machines of the Body in the 17th Century
• Zvi Biener, University of Cincinnati
  • "We cannot say all of nature is not alive:" A Physiological Context for Newton's Search for Causes.
• Dennis Des Chene, Washington University in St. Louis
  • TBA
• Jeffrey McDonough, Harvard University
  • Leibniz on Monadic Teleology and Optimal Form
• Justin Smith, Concordia University
  • Variety compensated by Identity: Leibniz and Herder on the Disanalogy between Race and Species
• Charles Wolfe, University of Ghent
  • Newtonian Analogies in Eighteenth-Century Life Science: The Case of Vitalism and Provisionally Inexplicable Explicative Devices and

• The 1st Annual Donald Gustafson Memorial Lecture:
  John Bickle, Mississippi State University
  • Eliminative Materialism Gets a Second Chance (Let's Get It Right This Time)

Free and open to the public.

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Zvi.Biener@uc.edu.

Visitors should contact the Hampton Inn and Suites for accomodations. Mention Group Code "PUC" for a discounted rate.