Cornell University Philosophy Department

Conferences Summer 2008

Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy

May 29-31, 2008

4th Biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson Philosophy Conference

June 30 - July 2, 2008

Further information about accommodations, registration, exact location, and program will appear on this website as they are set.

This conference series honors the memory of Margaret Dauler Wilson, historian of Early Modern Philosophy who taught at, Princeton University from 1970 to 1998. Previous conferences in the series have been held in San Diego, California, and Grafton, Vermont as well as in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Papers presented may be in any area of philosophy, but should be intelligible to historians of early modern philosophy since the majority of participants will likely be specialists in that area of philosophy. In past conferences in the series, papers have been presented on every major philosopher of the 17th and 18th centuries, and there have been presentations as well on ethics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

Graduate student papers

Philosophy graduate students will present in small-group sessions. Each session will be 50 minutes total in length including 30 minutes for paper presentation followed by 20 minutes of discussion. To be considered for presentation, an abstract of the paper (750 words or less) should be submitted by March 15. Prof. Sean Greenberg is the coordinator of the graduate student program at the conference; abstracts should be submitted to him at greenbes@uci.edu. Full papers, or abstracts longer than 750 words, may be submitted but the additional material will be considered only at the discretion of the reviewer.

Faculty papers

Faculty members interested in presenting papers should contact the Advisory Board of the conference series by email at this address: mdwconference@gmail.com.

Other questions about this conference, or the conference series, may also be sent to the email address above. The Advisory Board of the conference series includes Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers University), Vere Chappell (U Mass Amherst), Sean Greenberg (UC Irvine), Mark Kulstad (Rice University), Ruth Mattern, and Donald Rutherford (UC San Diego).