Two CUNY PhD students in philosophy, Jesse Atencio and Jules Salomone, will speak at this upcoming conference at Princeton.

Sixth Annual Princeton-Penn-Columbia Graduate Conference in the History of Modern Philosophy

Saturday, May 2, 2015
Princeton University
All talks will be held in Marx Hall, Room 201.

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee in the Tower Room (1879 Hall)

10:30 – 11:45 Galen Barry (University of Virginia) “Spinoza’s Explanation for the Feeling of Freedom”

12:00 – 1:15 Hannah Laurens (Oxford University) “Reconsidering Spinoza’s Rationalism: Overcoming the Passions through Scientia Intuitiva”

1:15 – 2:15 Lunch in the Tower Room

2:15 – 3:30 Jesse James Atencio (CUNY Graduate Center) “Hume, Naturalism, and Intelligent Design”

3:45 – 5:00 Jules Salomone (CUNY Graduate Center) “Transcendental Idealism Revisited? Transcendental Affection and the Supersensible in Kant’s Third Critique”

5:00 – 5:30 Tea in the Tower Room

5:30 – 7:00 Keynote Lecture: Desmond Hogan (Princeton University) “Schopenhauer’s Transcendental Aesthetic”

7:00 – 8:00 Reception in the Tower Room

8:00 – 10:00 Dinner at Masala Grill