The Pacific Northwest/Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will be held on March 9 - 11th at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR.

The keynote speaker will be Catherine Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center), who will present "Hobbes and the Laws of Nature."

If you wish to attend the PNWC SEMP, please contact Rebecca Copenhaver at rebeccac@lclark.edu.

Travel
Portland is served by the Portland International Airport (PDX).

Downtown Portland is a short (20 minute) cab ride from the airport.

Lewis & Clark college is a moderate cab ride from downtown Portland. However, it is cheaper and easier to take the Pioneer Express Shuttle, which departs from downtown at Pioneer Square, in front of Nordstrom's, across the street from Starbucks. Here is a map from the Benson Hotel to the departure point for the Pioneer Express.

Here is a map of the Lewis & Clark College campus.

Lodging
A block of ten rooms has been reserved for participants of the PNWC SEMP, at the Benson Hotel, in Downtown Portland. The rooms will be held until March 5th.

Program (pdf)
The seminar will be held in Howard Hall, 302.

Friday, March 9th:
3:30 - 5:00: Catherine Wilson, "Hobbes and the Laws of Nature."

Saturday, March 10th
Coffee, Tea, and Breakfast Pastries

9:00 - 10:00: David Clemenson, "Descartes and the Jesuits on Intentional Representation."
10:15 - 11:15: Raffaella De Rosa, "A Causal Account of Cartesian Sensations?"
11:30 - 12:30: Larry Nolan, "Cartesian Trialism on Trial."

Lunch: A box lunch will be provided for those who request it. Please email Rebecca Copenhaver, at rebeccac@lclark.edu.

Coffee and Tea

2:00 - 3:00: Kate Moran, "Can Kant Have an Account of Moral Education?"
3:15 - 4:15: Samuel Newlands, "Spinoza and the Ethics of Individuation."
4:30 - 5:30: Richard Manning, "Spinoza’s Transcendental Deduction of the Category of a Natural End."

6:30: Dinner at Jake's Famous Crawfish. (Here is a map from the Hotel - it is walking distance). Traditionally, participants in the PNWC pay for their own meal. Please let Rebecca Copenhaver know whether you wish to attend the dinner, at rebeccac@lclark.edu.

Sunday, March 11th
Coffee, Tea, and Breakfast Pastries

8:30 - 9:30: D. Kenneth Brown, "Decompounded Complexity in Locke’s Abstract Ideas."
9:45 - 10:45: Colin Heydt, "A delicate and an accurate pencil”: Adam Smith, Description, and the Practical Purposes of Ethics."
11:00 0 12:00: Todd Buras, "The Function of Sensation in Reid."