Roster of Talks
**Please note that the conference will be open

to the public and no registration is required.**
John Brandau
the Johns Hopkins University
"Degrees of Essence and Perfection in Spinoza"
Ed Curley
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
"Spinoza's Lost Defense"
Dan Garber
Princeton University
"Spinoza's Cartesian Dualism in the Korte Verhandeling"
Karolina Hubner
University of Toronto
"The Early Spinoza on the Nature of Ideas"
Michael LeBuffe
Texas A&M University
"Spinoza's (Early) Provisional Morality"
Russ Leo
Princeton University
"Spinoza's Calvin: the Use and Abuse of Reformed Orthodoxy in the Korte Verhandeling van God, Mensch en deselvs Welstand"
Frédéric Manzini
Paris IV - Sorbonne
"When was Spinoza not young any more?"
Colin Marshall
University of Melbourne
"Reason in the Short Treatise"
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
the Johns Hopkins University
"The Development of Spinoza's Concepts of Substance and Attribute"
Filippo Mignini
University of Macerata
"Fictio/Verziering(e) in the First Writings of Spinoza"
John Morrison
Columbia University
Barnard College
"The Nature of Turth in the Ethicsand the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect"
Alan Nelson
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
"Spinoza's Early Writings on Truth"
Samuel Newlands
University of Notre Dame
"Spinoza's Early Anti-Abstractionism"
Ursula Renz
Universität Klagenfurt
"From the Passive to the Active Intellect"
Tad Schmaltz
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor

"Spinoza on Eternity and Duration: The 1663 Connection"
Pina Totaro
CNR-Rome
"The Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza's Ethics"