Conference: Historical Perspectives on God's Order, Man's Order and the Order of Nature

My colleague Eric Watkins has organized an exciting conference taking place here this weekend. A program and other details can be found here. Below is a list of the participants, including Eric himself and Donald Rutherford, Chair of the UCSD Philosophy department.

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

• 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 and Leibniz on Miracles”

• 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”