events  

Some talks I'm giving:

• in Berlin, at the “Power and Essence: Perspectives on Spinoza's Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics,” conference at Humboldt-Universität, February 2025

• at Yale University, at the Early Modern Philosophy Group, April 3, 2025

• in Columbia SC, a plenary talk at the meeting of the North American Spinoza Society, at the University of South Carolina, in May 2025

• in Toronto, keynote at the York University Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, June 12-13, 2025

• in Heidelberg, at the 8th Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Sept. 2025

• in NYC, at the NYU Conference on Issues in the History of Modern Philosophy,  November 7-8, 2025
  
  

Some events I'm helping organize:

• On April 12, 2025 Cornell Philosophy will be hosting another Central New York Workshop in Modern Philosophy, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation/Central NY Humanities Corridor, on the topic of women philosophers. Speakers include Karen Detlefsen, Lauren Kopajtic, Karin Nisenbaum, and Reed Winegar. The event is free and open to the public.

• Justin Steinberg and I started up the Cornell Modern Philosophy Roundtable (CAMPeR) this fall. Our first guest this year was Alison Simmons (Harvard), on Oct. 18, speaking on Descartes.  Don Garrett (NYU) will visit us on April 18th, and Tad Schmaltz (Michigan) will give a talk on Spinoza on April 28th. Throughout the year, we're also running a grad/faculty reading group: in the fall we read Ann Conway's Principles and this term we're reading Mary Shepherd.