John Locke
July 4 Monday
17:30 Visit to the ancient city of Assos, the temple of Athena, the ancient theater; opening speech of Örsan K. Öymen in the ancient theatre; wine, blue sea, sunset across the ancient Assos city gate, city walls and Nekropolis.
21:00 Dinner (Eden Beach Hotel Restaurant / Kadırga bay)
July 5 Tuesday
14:00 Antonia LoLordo: “Locke on Ethics”
15:30 Samuel Rickless: “Locke on Free Will and Epistemic Responsibility”
17:00 Shelley Weinberg: “Locke’s Epistemology of Traditional Revelation”
18:30 Patrick Connolly: “Causation in Locke’s Proof of God’s Existence”
July 6 Wednesday
14:00 Nathan Rockwood: “Locke’s Criticism of Religious Experience”
15:30 Douglas Casson: “Locke on Fanaticism: An Unenthusiastic Account”
17:00 Daniel Layman: “Trust, Accountability and Salvation: Locke’s Legal Case for Toleration”
18:30 Larry Udell: “Locke on Slavery: Racism or Prejudice?”
July 7 Thursday
15:00 Visit to the ancient city and museum of Troy
21:00 Farewell dinner (Assos Terrace Hotel Restaurant)
PS: The meetings will take place at the Assos Terrace Hotel at an open air venue. (Telephone: 90-286-7640285). All talks and discussions are in English. There will be no translations. Every presentation and session is 1 hour. There will be a 30 minute break between each session.
About the speakers:
Samuel Rickless: University of California (San Diego) Department of Philosophy (Professor). Areas of interest and research: History of ancient philosophy, history of modern philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, philosophy of language. He is the author of the books “Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides”, “Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism” and “Locke” as well as the author of numerous articles in his area.
Antonia LoLordo: University of Virginia Department of Philosophy (Professor/Chairperson). Areas of interest and research: 17th and 18th century philosophy, Gassendi, Locke, Shepherd. She is the author of the books “Locke’s Moral Man” and “Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy” as well as the author of numerous articles in her area.
Douglas Casson: St. Olaf College Department of Political Science (Professor). Areas of interest and research: ancient and modern political philosophy, religion and politics, constitutional law. He is the author of the book “Liberating Judgment: Fanaticism, Skepticism and John Locke’s Politics of Probability” as well as the author of numerous articles in his area.
Shelley Weinberg: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Department of Philosophy (Associate Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy. She is the author of the book “Consciousness in Locke” as well as the author of numerous articles in her area.
Larry Udell: West Chester University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, philosophy of the social sciences. He is the author of various articles in his area.
Daniel Layman: Davidson College Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Political philosophy, ethics. He is the author of the books “Is Political Authority an Illusion? A Debate” (with Michael Huemer) and “Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the 19th Century” as well as the author of various articles in his area.
Patrick Connolly: Lehigh University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern philosophy, history of science, philosophy of science, applied ethics, medieval philosophy, Kant. He is the author of various articles in his area.
Nathan Rockwood: Brigham Young University Department of Philosophy (Assistant Professor). Areas of interest and research: Early modern epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Descartes, Locke, Hume. He is the author of various articles in his area.
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