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New York University
Department of Philosophy

2012 Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

“Inequality”

The Ninth NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

New York University, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914
November 9-10, 2012

Registration is available here.

The New York University Department of Philosophy will host the ninth in its series of annual conferences on issues in the history of modern philosophy on November 9 and 10, 2012. Each conference in the series examines the development of a central philosophical problem from early modern philosophy to the present, exploring the evolution of formulations of the problem and of approaches to resolving it. By examining the work of philosophers of the past both in historical context and in relation to contemporary philosophical thinking, the conferences allow philosophy’s past and present to illuminate one another.

Friday, November 9
1:00–2:00 Check-in
2:00–4:00 First session: Locke
Speaker Jeremy Waldron. "'Yet all this consists with the Equality, which all Men are in' —Locke's Egalitarian Arguments for Inequality". (NYU School of Law; University of Oxford) 
Commentator Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University). Show bio.
4:30–6:30 Second session: Rousseau
Speaker Frederick Neuhouser (Barnard College/Columbia University).
"Rousseau's Critique of Social Inequality".
Commentator Niko Kolodny. Show bio. (University of California, Berkeley)
6:30–7:30 Reception
Saturday, November 10
10:00–12:00 Third session: Wollstonecraft
Speaker Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John's College, Cambridge). "Inequality".
Commentator Eileen Hunt Botting (University of Notre Dame). Show bio. Comments.
2:00–4:00 Fourth session: Marx
Speaker Allen Wood (Indiana University). "Karl Marx on Equality".
Commentator Jonathan Wolff (University of College London). Show bio.
4:30–6:30 Fifth session: Contemporary Philosophy
Speaker Thomas Pogge (Yale University). "Treating People as Equals".
Commentator Larry Temkin Show bio. (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

Conference attendees may click on the following link to reserve a room at the Paramount Hotel at a special NYU rate: Paramount Hotel.

Questions may be directed to: philo.modernconference@nyu.edu

Conference Directors: Béatrice Longuenesse, John Richardson, and Don Garrett.

Past conferences

2011"Freedom of the Will"
2010 "The Metaphysics of Modality"
2009 “The Foundations of Morality”
2008 “Skepticism”
2007 “Aesthetic Judgment”
2006 “Understanding Space and Time”
2005 “Reason and the Emotions in Modern Philosophy”
2004 “Self-consciousness and Personal Identity in Modern Philosophy”