The 2006 CCEMP at CSULB was a great success. We had a wonderful program with interesting talks and great discussion sessions. Thanks to everyone who helped make the conference such an enjoyable experience for all!

1:00 PM : Tad Schmaltz, Duke University: "Elisabeth's Objections to Cartesian Interaction Reconsidered"

2:30 PM: Steven Huizenga, UC Santa Barbara: "Locke's State of War"

4:00 PM: Alice Sowaal, CSU San Francisco: "Mind and Method in Astell's 'Serious Proposal'"

Conference Reception

Continental Breakfast

9:30 AM : Martha Bolton, Rutgers University: "Locke and Leibniz on Power and Potentiality"

11:00 AM : John Whipple, UC Irvine: "Leibniz's Account of Creation"

12:15 PM: Lunch on Campus

2:00 PM : Todd Ryan, Trinity College: "Malebranche, Occasionalism and the Argument from Continuous Creation"

3:30 PM : Jennifer Smalligan, UC Berkeley: "Does Hume Hold a Dispositional Account of Belief?"

5:00 PM: Alan Nelson, UNC Chapel Hill: "Cartesian Innateness"

Conference Dinner