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Freedom and Evil Conference

Freedom and Evil Conference
April 13 - April 14, 2024
9:00AM - 12:00PM
353 University Hall

Date Range
Add to Calendar 2024-04-13 09:00:00 2024-04-14 12:00:00 Freedom and Evil Conference Saturday April 13th9:00am Bagels and Coffee9:15-10:45am 1st Session “Kant and Anselm on Freedom and the Rational Origin of Evil” –Janelle DeWitt (University of California-Los Angeles)11:00-12:30pm 2nd Session “Spinoza on Evil, the Will, and Practical Reason” –Michael Rosenthal (Toronto) Lunch Break 1:45-3:15pm 3rd Session: “Leibniz, the Problem of Regret, and the Problem of the Essentially Damned” –Jeremy W. Skrzypek (Ohio Dominican University)3:30-5:00pm Keynote Address: “An Early Modern Metaphysics of Evil” –Sam Newlands (Notre Dame)5:00pm Reception in the Gluck Library (University Hall 314) Sunday April 14th9:00am Bagels and Coffee 9:15-10:45am 4th Session “Being without limit: Radical evil and the desire to ‘be like God’” –Bas Tonissen (University of California-San Diego)11:00-12:30pm 5th Session “Hegel on the Origin of Evil and the Task of Education” –Matthew Stripling (American University)Sponsored by The Early Modern Group, The Kant Group, and The Philosophy of Religion GroupConference Organizers: Jacob Caldwell (The Ohio State University), Dylan Flint (The Ohio State University) 353 University Hall Department of Philosophy philosophy@osu.edu America/New_York public

Saturday April 13th

9:00am Bagels and Coffee

9:15-10:45am 1st Session “Kant and Anselm on Freedom and the Rational Origin of Evil” –Janelle DeWitt (University of California-Los Angeles)

11:00-12:30pm 2nd Session “Spinoza on Evil, the Will, and Practical Reason” –Michael Rosenthal (Toronto)

 Lunch Break 

1:45-3:15pm 3rd Session: “Leibniz, the Problem of Regret, and the Problem of the Essentially Damned” –Jeremy W. Skrzypek (Ohio Dominican University)

3:30-5:00pm Keynote Address: “An Early Modern Metaphysics of Evil” –Sam Newlands (Notre Dame)

5:00pm Reception in the Gluck Library (University Hall 314)

 

Sunday April 14th

9:00am Bagels and Coffee 

9:15-10:45am 4th Session “Being without limit: Radical evil and the desire to ‘be like God’” –Bas Tonissen (University of California-San Diego)

11:00-12:30pm 5th Session “Hegel on the Origin of Evil and the Task of Education” –Matthew Stripling (American University)

Sponsored by The Early Modern Group, The Kant Group, and The Philosophy of Religion Group
Conference Organizers: Jacob Caldwell (The Ohio State University), Dylan Flint (The Ohio State University)