Saturday, April 15, 2017, 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.

Topic: Locke's Legacy in Hume's Metaphysics and Epistemology

Chair: Jason Fisette (University of Nevada, Reno)

Speakers: Allison Kuklok (St. Michael's College)
"Knowing That versus Knowing How: Hume's Critique of Locke's Idea of Causal Power"

Timothy Yenter (University of Mississippi)
"Direct and Indirect Routes from Locke to Hume"

Saturday, March 4, 2017, 12:15 - 2:15 P.M.

Topic: Ideas, Evidence, and Method: Hume’s Skepticism and Naturalism concerning Knowledge and Causation (Graciela DePierris)

Chair: Erin Frykholm (University of Kansas)

Critics: Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto)
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)

Response: Graciela DePierris (Stanford University)

Friday, January 6, 2017, 11:15 A.M. - 1:15 P.M.

Topic: Hume's Epistemology through his Philosophy of Religion

Chair: Allison Kuklok (St. Michael's)

Speakers: Elizabeth Goodnick (Metropolitan State University, Denver)
“Philo’s Reversal and Hume on Belief”

Emily Kelahan (Illinois Wesleyan)
“Assessing Epistemic Agents in Hume’s Natural History of Religion”

Friday, April 1, 7:00 - 10:00 P.M.

Topic: Hume’s Moral Psychology

Chair: Erin Frykholm (Kansas)

Speakers: Lorraine Besser (Middlebury)
"Bridging Gaps Between Hume's Moral Psychology and Contemporary Psychological Research"

Rico Vitz (Azusa Pacific)
"Character, Culture, and the Limits of Humean Virtue"

Katharina Paxman (Brigham Young)
"Hume on the Cultivation of Disposition"

Commentator: Emily Kelahan (Illinois Wesleyan)

GIII-02: Thursday, March 03, 5:30 PM- 7:30 P.M.

Chair: Tina Baceski (Rockhurst University)

Speakers: Miren Boehm (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
"Old and New Hume"

Annemarie Butler (Iowa State University)
"How Social is Hume's Epistemology?"

Hume Society, Friday, January 8, 2016, 11:15 A.M. - 1:15 P.M.

Topic: Hume’s Conception of Space in Historical Context

Chair: Jason Fisette (University of Nevada, Reno)

Speakers: Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“A Feature of Hume’s Theory of Ideas”

Graciela de Pierris (Stanford University)
“Hume and Kant on Space and Infinite Divisibility”

G4A: Hume Society, Thursday, April, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.

Topic: Hume’s Scientific Methodology in the Treatise

Chair: David Landy (San Francisco State University)

Speakers: Graciela De Pierris (Stanford University)
"Hume’s Newtonian Methodology in the Science of Human Nature"

Paul Russell (University of Gothenburg and University of British Columbia)
"Hume, Williams, and the 'Science of Human Nature'"

Thursday, February 19, 2015, 5:30 PM- 7:30 P.M.

Speakers: Samuel Murray (Saint Louis University)
"A Humean Emendation to Reid's Volitional Theory of Agency"

Tina Baceski (Rockhurst University)
"Hume on the 'Naturalness' of Religious Belief"

Commentator: Mark Piper (James Madison University)

Topic: Hume on Religion

Chair: Lewis Powell (State University of New York at Buffalo)

Speakers: Deborah Boyle (College of Charleston)
“Hume on Natural Beliefs and Belief in God”

Emily Kelahan (Illinois Wesleyan University)
“The Design Argument in Hume’s Natural History of Religion”

Topic: Hume’s Moral Psychology

Speakers: Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto)
"What Exactly is an Impression of Reflection?"

John Bricke (University of Kansas)
"Hume: Morality, Motivation, and Truth"

Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)
"Sentiments: Skeptical Cure or Skeptical Cause?"

April 16th 2014
G3A — 8:00-10:00 p.m.

Topic: Humean Responses to Kant

February 27th 2014
GVII-4  - 5:30p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Topic: Hume on Evil

William E. Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University)

Chair: Tina Baceski (Rockhurst University)

December 29th 2013
GVII-4  - 9:00a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Topic: Hume on the Standards of Taste

Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)
"Negotiating Diversity of Tastes in the Second Enquiry and ‘Of the Standard of Taste’"

Chair: Michelle Dyke (New York University)

March 29th 2013
G7 — 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Topic: Hume’s Theory of Mental Representation

February 21st 2013
5:25-7:25 p.m.

Speaker: Donald L. M. Baxter (University of Connecticut)
“Hume on Substance.”
Commentator: Justin Broackes (Brown University)

Speaker: Galen Strawson (University of Reading/University of Texas, Austin)
“Hume on Personal Identity: ‘No Difficulty in the Case'.”
Commentator: Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)

December 30th 2012
GXI - 2  - 9:00a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Speakers: Colin Heydt (University of South Florida)
"Hume and His Contemporaries on the Moral Significance of Self"

Margaret Watkins (St. Vincent College)
"Private Virtue, Public Spirit: Hume's Hopes for 'Wise Laws and Institutions'"

Chair: Miriam McCormick (University of Richmond).

Topic: Hume, Human Nature, and Evolutionary Psychology

February 16th 2012
GII-6  - 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Speaker: Miren Boehm (University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee)
“Hume’s Two and the Same Definitions of Cause.”
Commentator: Abe Roth (Ohio State University)

Speaker: Jonathan Cottrell (New York University)
“Hume’s Propriety Principle.”
Commentator: Donald L. M. Baxter (University of Connecticut)

December 28th 2011
GII-2  - 9:00-11:00 a.m.

Speakers: Alison McIntyre (Wellesley College)
"Does Pride Always Have Intersubjective Resonance? Hume vs. Allestree"

Aaron Garrett (Boston University)
"Hume on Pride and Other Prejudices"

Chair: Yumiko Inukai (University of Massachusetts-Boston).

Speakers: Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto)
"Hume’s Reflections on Scepticism and the Senses"

Terence Penelhum (University of Calgary)
"Hume and Universal Causation"

David Raynor (University of Ottawa)
"Why David Hume is Britain's Greatest Philosopher"

Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)
"A Sense of Self: Hume and Condillac on Consciousness and Selfhood"

Chair: Peter Loptson (University of Guelph)