Chloe Armstrong
Assistant Professor, Lawrence University.
Research
I work primarily on topics in early modern philosophy.
In my dissertation I defend the view that Leibniz is a necessitarian he thinks that all truths are metaphysically necessary. I argue that Leibniz's accounts of contingency are meant to show how he can find surrogate notions of contingency within his necessitarian framework. I explore the importance of these surrograte notions for Leibniz's understanding of possible worlds, divine and human freedom, and the laws of nature.
Here is an abstract.
I am also interested in Leibniz's subsequent intellectual influence. In “Bolzano, Kant and Leibniz" (2014), Sandra Lapointe and I examine the Kantian and Leibnizian origins of Bolzano's notion of analyticity. I have additional research interests in contemporary metaphysics and epistemology, as well as early analytic philosophy.
Teaching
Fall 2015 I am teaching Freshman Studies 100 at Lawrence University.
Winter 2016 I am teaching Intro to Philosophy 100, and History of Philosophy 200: Aristotle and Plato, at Lawrence University.
chloe.armstrong[at]lawrence.edu
Department of Philosophy
Lawrence University
711 E. Boldt Way
Appleton, Wi
54911
Upcoming talks
"Necessitarianism in Leibniz's Theodicy"
Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 27 February 2016.