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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

Participants

Speakers:

• 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”

Session Chairs and Other Participants:

• John Hedley Brooke, Oxford University

• Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics/University of California, San Diego

• Dennis Des Chene, Washington University, St. Louis

• Russell Re Manning, Cambridge University.

• Eric Martin, London School of Economics (Post-Doctoral Researcher)

• James Messina, University of California (Graduate Student Researcher)

• Eleonora Montuschi, London School of Economics

• Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary

• Rebecca Robinson, London School of Economics (Project Manager)

• Margaret Yee, Oxford University

• Peter Yong, University of California (Graduate Student Researcher)