The UC San Diego Philosophy Department Presents:

Historical Perspectives on God's Order, Man's Order and the Order of Nature

March 4th to March 6th at UC San Diego

Organized by Eric Watkins

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Program

Friday, March 4

9:00 am - 9:15 am

• Welcome
• Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
• Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics/University of California, San Diego
• Eleonora Montuschi, London School of Economics

Chair: Dennis Des Chene, Washington University, St. Louis

9:15 am - 10:45 am

• Marilyn McCord Adams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • “Powers versus Laws: God and the Order of Nature in Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham”

10:45 am - 11:15 am

• Coffee Break

11:15 am - 12:45 pm

• Steve Nadler, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • “The Order of Nature and Moral Luck: Maimonides on Divine Providence”

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

• Lunch (for all registered participants)

Chair: Russell Re Manning, Cambridge University

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

• Daniel Garber, Princeton University
  • “Divine Laws and Divine Decrees: Laws of Nature in Descartes and Leibniz”

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

• Coffee Break

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

• Robert Merrihew Adams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • “Power, Cause, and Law in Malebranche’s Occasionalism”

6:30 pm

• Dinner (for select registered participants)

Saturday, March 5

Chair: John Hedley Brooke, Oxford University

9:00 am - 10:30 am

• Donald Rutherford, University of California, San Diego
  • “Laws and Powers in Leibniz”

10:30 am - 11:00 am

• Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

• Martha Bolton, Rutgers University
  • “Leibniz on Monadic Change”

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

• Lunch (for all registered participants)

Chair: Margaret Yee, Oxford University

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

• Andrew Chignell, Cornell University
  • “Kant on Hoping for a Miracle”

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

• Coffee Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

• Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame
  • “Kant and the End of Theodicy”

6:00 pm

• Dinner (for select registered participants)

Sunday, March 6

Chair: Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary

9:00 am - 10:30 am

• Desmond Hogan, Princeton University
  • “Kant's Theory of Divine and Secondary Causation”

10:30 am - 11:00 am

• Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

• Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
  • “Kant on Man, God, and the Order of Nature”

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

• Lunch (for all registered participants)