Metaphysics and Theology Workshop

Date and Time

December 5 - December 6, 2025
09:00AM - 05:00PM EST

Location

Robbins Library, Emerson 211

Friday, December 5 - Saturday, December 6

 

Please register here.

 

Friday, December 5

8:30am: Coffee and light breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am: Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame), “A Puzzle about Intellectual Memory: Three States of Mental Forms in Aquinas”
11:00am - 12:30pm: Dominik Perler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “One Substance and Many Attributes: Spinoza and the Scholastic Background” 
12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch [Emerson Hall 307]
1:30pm - 3:00pm: Stephan Schmid (Universität Hamburg), "Spinoza’s Attributes as Ways of Being"
3:30pm - 5:00pm: Julia Borcherding (Cambridge University), "Divine Minds: Leibniz on the imago Dei Thesis and the Commonwealth of Spirits"


Saturday, December 6

8:30am: Coffee and light breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford University), "What Kind of Trope Theorist Was Hume?"
11:00am - 12:30pm: Sam Newlands (University of Notre Dame), "Panentheism, Idealism, and Monism"
12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch [Emerson Hall 307]

 

Organizers:

Clara Carus (Harvard University)
Jeff McDonough (Harvard University)

 

Co-Sponored by the Abigail Adams Institute and the Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities