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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

Introduction

  • Marilyn McCord Adams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Powers versus Laws: God and the Order of Nature in Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham”
  • Robert Merrihew Adams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Power, Cause, and Law in Malebranche’s Occasionalism”
  • Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame, “Kant and the End of Theodicy”
  • Martha Bolton, Rutgers University, “Leibniz on Monadic Change”
  • Andrew Chignell, Cornell University, “Kant on Hoping for a Miracle”
  • Daniel Garber, Princeton University, “Divine Laws and Divine Decrees: Laws of Nature in Descartes and Leibniz”
  • Desmond Hogan, Princeton University, “Kant's Theory of Divine and Secondary Causation”
  • Steve Nadler, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “The Order of Nature and Moral Luck: Maimonides on Divine Providence”
  • Donald Rutherford, University of California, San Diego, “Laws and Powers in Leibniz”
  • Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego, “Kant on Man, God, and the Order of Nature”