Workshop on Modern Philosophy

About This Event

UNYWMP will host a workshop with the following papers and film presented:

• Haley Brennan (NYU), “Cavendish on the Selves of Parts and Wholes”
• Lorraine Besser (Middlebury), “Hume’s Two Theories of Justice: On the differences between justice in the Treatise and the second Enquiry”
• Daniel Brinkerhoff Young (Union), “Species-Being, Communal Generosity, and Natural Norms in Marxism”
• William Lewis (Skidmore) and Chelsea Knight (Bennington), Documentary Film: Islets of Equality and Prosperity: Fourier, Godin, and the Search for a Passional Economy (France/USA 2026, 20 minutes)
• Michael Veldman (Hamilton), “The Method of Hypotheses and the Leibnizian Origins of Extra-Empirical Reasoning”
• Sarah Kizuk (Skidmore) and Getty Lustila (Northeastern), “Cordova and Spinoza on Monism”
• Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst), “Du Châtelet’s Theory of Freedom and Its Origins”

Featured Guests

• Lorraine Besser (Middlebury)
• Haley Brennan (NYU)
• Daniel Brinkerhoff Young (Union)
• Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst)
• Sarah Kizuk (Skidmore)
• Chelsea Knight (Bennington)
• William Lewis (Skidmore)
• Getty Lustila (Northeastern)
• Michael Veldman (Hamilton)