The Legacies of Richard Popkin

A conference at the Clark Library, June 11-12, 2006

Sunday, June 11
9:30 A.M	Morning Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Welcoming Remarks Peter H. Reill, UCLA Session 1 – Popkin and the History of Philosophy Chair: Richard Allan Watson, Washington University in St. Louis Brian Copenhaver, UCLA Popkin Non-Scepticus: The Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy Allison P. Coudert, UC Davis À Rebours in Academia: Richard Popkin’s Contributions to Intellectual History Sarah Hutton, Middlesex University Popkin’s Spinoza Peter K.J. Park, Loyola Marymount University Assessing the Work of Richard H. Popkin from the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies
1:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Session 2 – Religion and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Chair: Robert S. Westman, UC San Diego James E. Force, University of Kentucky Richard H. Popkin’s Concept of the Third Force and the Newtonian Synthesis of Theology and Scientific Methodology in Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, and William Whiston Martin Mulsow, Rutgers University The Third Force Revisited David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania The Study of the Mishnah and the Quest for Christian Identity in the Early Eighteenth Century: William Wotton and His Learned Friends Knox Peden, UC Berkeley Gilles Deleuze: From Hume to Spinoza (An attempt to make good on a Popkin request)
5:00 P.M.	Reception

Monday, June 12
9:30 A.M	Morning Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Session 3 – Popkin and the Skeptical Tradition Chair: John McCumber, UCLA John Christian Laursen, UC Riverside Popkin’s Skepticism and the Cynical Tradition José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Charron and Huet: Two Still Unexplored Legacies of Popkin’s Scholarship on Early Modern Skepticism Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale The Quarrel over Ancient and Modern Skepticism: Some Reflections on Descartes and His Context Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky Richard Popkin: A Son’s Memories
1:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Session 4 – Popkin and the Jews Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University The Shabbatai Zvi Movement from a European Perspective: Richard H. Popkin’s Contribution to the Field Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Richard Popkin’s Marrano Question David S. Katz, Tel Aviv University Popkin and the Jews David N. Myers, UCLA Richard Popkin and the (Re)Writing of Jewish History

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