40th International Hume Society Conference
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
21-28 July 2013

 

Programme /Programação
Plenaries, Panels, and Author-meets-Critics sessions will have simultaneous translations
As palestras, mesas-redondas e a mesa “Autor se encontra com seus críticos” terão tradução simultânea


 
Sunday
Domingo
July 21
21 de julho

Registration & Seminars / Inscrições & Seminários

4:00–6:30

Registration / Inscrições – Hotel Pancetti

Seminars / Seminários John Wright (Central Michigan University)
“Hume and his Contemporaries (Reid, and Hutcheson or Mandeville)”

Angela Calvo de Saavedra (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
“The Character of True Philosophy”

 

Workshop
Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)

“The Second Annual Mentor Workshop for Early Career Women Scholars in Hume Studies and Related Areas of Early Modern Philosophy”

 

Allison Kuklok (Harvard University), with Angela Coventry (Portland State University)

Katharina Paxman (University of Western Ontario), with Jane McIntyre (Cleveland State University, Emeritus)

Sofía Calvente (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), with Angela Calvo de Saavedra (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)

Stephanie Hamdan Zahreddine (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), with Karánn Durland (Austin College)

Lisa Broussois (Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), with Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Jia Wei (Cambridge University), with Spyridon Tegos (University of Crete)

Porsiana Beatrice (Independent Scholar), with Lorenzo Greco (Oxford University)

 

Monday
segunda-feira
July 22
22 de julho

At the Campus Pampulha – UFMG

2:00–2:45

Registration / Inscrições

2:45–3:30

Opening Ceremony / Cerimônia de abertura

 

 

3:30–4:45

Plenary Session #1 / Palestra 1
José R. Maia Neto (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

“The Skeptical Cartesian Background of Hume’s ‘Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy’”
Chair / Coordenação: Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

 

 

 

5:05–6:35

Panel  / mesa-redonda - Reason & Reasoning
João Paulo Monteiro (Universidade de São Paulo / Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

“Hume, Causation, and Rationality”
David Owen (University of Arizona)

“Reason Alone”
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

“Hume on Practical Reasoning”
Chair / Coordenação: Don Garrett (New York University)

6:35

Welcome: Cocktails / Coquetel de Boas Vindas

 

 

Tuesday
terça-feira
July 23
23 de julho

At the Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da UFMG

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:30–10:45

Concurrent Session 1A/ Sessão simultânea 1A
John Wright (Central Michigan University), “Pyrrhonian Scepticism in Hume’s Theory of Space”
Commentator / Comentários: Graciella de Pierris (Stanford University)
Chair / Coordenação: Wade Robison (Rochester Institute of Technology)

 

Concurrent Session 1B/ Sessão simultânea 1B
Ann Levey (University of Calgary), “Hume’s Infamous Footnote”

Commentator / Comentários: Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva (Universidade de São Paulo)
Chair / Coordenação: João Pinto Furtado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

 

Concurrent Session 1C/ Sessão simultânea 1C
Spyridon Tegos (University of Crete), “Hume’s Case for French Politeness: The Status of Politeness in Monarchies and Republics” 
Commentator / Comentários: Cesar Kiraly (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Chair / Coordenação: Darío Perinetti (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

 

 

 

11:05–12:35

Panel / mesa-redonda - Scepticism & Sentiment
Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)

“Sentiments: Skeptical Cure or Skeptical Cause?”
Plínio Junqueira Smith (Universidade Federal do Estado de São Paulo)

“Reason and Sentiment: On the Allegedly Dual Structure of Hume's Philosophy”
Peter Kail (Oxford University)

“Hume and the Genealogy of Morality”
Chair / Coordenação: Darío Perinetti (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Lunch / Almoço

 

2:00–3:15

Plenary Session #2 / Palestra 2
Stephen Darwall (Yale University)

“David Hume: Modern Metaethicist, (Mostly) Ancient Normative Ethicist”
Chair / Coordenação: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:35–4:50

Concurrent Session 2A/ Sessão simultânea 2A
Marcos César Seneda (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia), “Zeno of Elea, Pierre Bayle and David Hume: paradoxes and skeptical reflections on the idea of space”
Commentator / Comentários: Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario) 
Chair / Coordenação: Hugo Macedo Arruda (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

 

Concurrent Session 2B/ Sessão simultânea 2B
Lisa Broussois (Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), “David Hume on the Right of Resistance”
Commentator / Comentários: Marcos Balieiro (Universidade Federal de Sergipe)
Chair / Coordenação: Angela Calvo de Saavedra (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)

 

Concurrent Session 2C/ Sessão simultânea 2C
Moritz Baumstark (University of Halle), “Hume and the querelle des anciens et des modernes”
Commentator / Comentários: Vinícius França Freitas  (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Chair / Coordenação: Sofía Calvente (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

 

 

5:10–6:40

Panel / mesa-redonda - Ancients & Moderns
Thomas Holden (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Hume, Ancient and Modern Religion, and the Autonomy of Philosophy”
Sara Albieri (Universidade de São Paulo)

“Hume and the Ancients and Moderns”
Orsan K. Oymen (Isik University, Istanbul)

“Hume and Pyrrhonism”
Chair / Coordenação: José R. Maia Neto (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

Evening
à noite

Cachaça e Violão (bar with open microphone / bar com microfone aberto)

 

 

Wednesday
quarta-feira
July 24
24 de julho

At the Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of UFMG

 

8:15-9:30

Lorenzo Greco (Marie Curie Fellow, Oxford and Mansfield College, Oxford), “Hume and the Narrative Self”
Commentator / Comentários: Jane McIntyre (Cleveland State University)
Chair / Coordenação: Ricardo Veiga (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

9:30

Excursion to Inhotim / Passeio ao Inhotim

 

 

Thursday
quinta-feira
July 25
25 de julho

At the Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of UFMG

9:30–10:45

Concurrent Session 3A/ Sessão simultânea 3A
Allison Kuklok (Harvard University), “More Than A Feeling”
Commentator / Comentários: Wendel de Holanda P. Campelo (Universidade Federal do Pará)
Chair / Coordenação: André Klaudat (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

 

Concurrent Session 3B/ Sessão simultânea 3B
Henrik Bohlin (Södertörn University), “Reason, Passion, and Perspectivism in Hume’s Moral Theory”
Commentator / Comentários: Adriano Naves de Brito (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos) 
Chair / Coordenação: Lorenzo Greco (marie Curie Fellow, Oxford and Mansfield College, Oxford)

 

Concurrent Session 3C/ Sessão simultânea 3C
Jia Wei (Cambridge University), “Tudor Justice in Early Modern England: Hume’s History of England Reconsidered”
Commentator / Comentários: Mark Spencer (Brock University)
Chair / Coordenação: Max Grober (Austin College)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

 

11:05-12:20

Plenary Session #3 / Palestra 3
Rachel Cohon (State University of New York, Albany)

“Acts of Intentional Self-Obligation: Hume, Scanlon, and Promising” 
Chair / Coordenação: Stephen Darwall (Yale University)

Lunch / Almoço

 

 

1:50–3:20

Panel / mesa-redonda - Justice & Society: 
Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)

“The Evolution of Hume’s Justice”
Angela Calvo de Saavedra (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)

“Are the Rules of Justice a Sufficient Device for a Flourishing Society?”
Renato Lessa (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

“Hume on Justice and Imagination”
Chair / Coordenação: Anice Lima de Araújo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

3:40–4:55

Concurrent Session 4A/ Sessão simultânea 4A
Sofía Calvente (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), “Hume’s Notions of Certainty and Evidence: Their Meaning in Context”
Commentator / Comentários: Saul Traiger (Occidental College)
Chair / Coordenação: Donald Baxter (University of Connecticut)

 

Concurrent Session 4B/ Sessão simultânea 4B
Juan Samuel Santos (University of Alberta), “Shamelessly Proud: A Humean Conception of Pride and Modesty”
Commentator / Comentários: Corliss Swain (St. Olaf College)
Chair / Coordenação: David Owen (University of Arizona)

 

Concurrent Session 4C/ Sessão simultânea 4C
Susan Hahn (Massachussetts Institute of Technology), “How can a skeptic have a standard of taste?”
Commentator / Comentários: Margaret Watkins (St. Vincent College) 
Chair / Coordenação: André Luís Gonçalves (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

5:15–6:30

Concurrent Session 5A/ Sessão simultânea 5A
Lewis Powell (State University of New York, Buffalo), “Reid’s Complaint against Hume’s Maxim” 
Commentator / Comentários: Matheus Batista dos Reis (
Fundação Helena Antipoff)
Chair / Coordenação: Matheus Tonani Marques Pereira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

 

Concurrent Session 5B/ Sessão simultânea 5B
Alison McIntyre (Wellesley College), “Fruitless Remorses: Hume’s Critique of the Penitential 
Project of The Whole Duty of Man in T 2.1.6–7” 
Commentator /Comentários: Åsa Carlson (Stockholm University)
Chair / Coordenação: Miguel Badía-Cabrera (Universidad de Puerto Rico)

 

Concurrent Session 5C/ Sessão simultânea 5C
Jason Fisette (The New School for Social Research / The George Washington University), “Hume on Secondary Qualities in a Corpuscular Age”
Commentator / Comentários: Tito Magri (La Sapienza Universitá di Roma)
Chair / Coordenação: Stephanie Hamdan Zahreddine (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

7:00

Free Guided Tour of the Museums of the “Circuito Cultural da Praça da Liberdade”

Visita guiada gratuita aos museus do “Circuito Cultural da Praça da Liberdade”

 

 

Friday
sexta-feira
July 26
26 de julho

At the Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of UFMG

9:30–10:45

Concurrent Session 6A/ Sessão simultânea 6A
Donald Baxter (University of Connecticut), “Hume’s Two Kinds of Assent”
Commentator / Comentários: Bruno Pettersen (Faculdade Jesuíta de Filosofia e Teologia)
Chair / Coordenação: Italo Lemos (Universidade Católica de Pernambuco)

 

Concurrent Session 6B/ Sessão simultânea 6B
Katharina Paxman (University of Western Ontario), “Imperceptible Impressions and Disorder in the Soul: A characterization of the distinction between calm and violent passions in Hume”
Commentator / Comentários: Haruko Inoue (Sapporo University)
Chair / Coordenação: Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)

 

Concurrent Session 6C/ Sessão simultânea 6C
Ryan Pollock (Penn State University), “Hume and the Extension of Justice: Making Resentments Felt Through Instability”
Commentator / Comentários: Rudmer Bijlsma (University of Antwerp)
Chair / Coordenação: Vinícius França Freitas (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

11:05-12:20

Concurrent Session 7A/ Sessão simultânea 7A
Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere), “Hume on Spatial Properties”
Commentator / Comentários: Angela Coventry (Portland State University) 
Chair / Coordenação: Jason Fisette (The New School for Social Research / The George Washington University)

 

Concurrent Session 7B/ Sessão simultânea 7B
Philip Reed (Canisius College), “Motivating Hume’s Natural Virtues”
Commentator / Comentários: Alessio Vaccari (La Sapienza Universitá di Roma)
Chair / Coordenação: Åsa Carlson (Stockholm University)

 

Concurrent Session 7C/ Sessão simultânea 7C
Marc Hanvelt (Carleton University), “Factionalism and the Opposition of Interests in David Hume’s Political Philosophy”
Commentator / Comentários: Wade Robison (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Chair / Coordenação: Cesar Kiraly (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Lunch / Almoço

 

 

1:50–3:20

Author Meets Critics / Autor se encontra com seus críticos: Don Garrett’s Hume 
Louis Loeb (University of Michigan)
Peter Millican (Oxford University)
Don Garrett (New York University) 
Chair / Coordenação: Karánn Durland (Austin College)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

3:40–4:55

Concurrent Session 8A/ Sessão simultânea 8A
Kevin Busch (Oxford University), “Rethinking Hume v. Kant on Causation”
Commentator / Comentários: André Klaudat (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Chair / Coordenação: Stephanie Hamdan Zahreddine (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

 

Concurrent Session 8B/ Sessão simultânea 8B
Gabriel Bertín de Almeida (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná), “Hume and Utilitarianism”
Commentator / Comentários: Marco Oliveira de Azevedo (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos)
Chair / Coordenação: Ann Levey (University of Calgary)

 

Concurrent Session 8C/ Sessão simultânea 8C
Todd Ryan (Trinity College), “Hume’s Use of Stratonism in the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion
Commentator / Comentários: Luiz Eva (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
Chair / Coordenação: Gregory Todd (Independent Scholar)

Coffee Break / Cafezinho

5:15–6:30

Plenary Session #4 / Palestra 4
Barry Stroud (University of California, Berkeley)

“Hume’s ‘Observation’ about ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’: Its Place in his ‘Science of Human Nature’”
Chair / Coordenação: Lívia Guimarães (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

6:30-7:30

Business Meeting / Assembleia Geral da Hume Society

8:30-11:30

Banquet /  Banquete

Saturday
sábado
July 27
27 de julho

Leave for Ouro Preto / Passeio a Ouro Preto

Charlotte Brown and William E. Morris: Enlightenment

Sunday
domingo
July 28
28 de julho

Farewell / Despedida

 

 

Conference Referees:

Hume Society Refereeing Policy: All submissions to any Hume Society Conference are anonymously refereed by at least two referees. The Programme Committee also does not know the names, countries or professional status of authors, until after their papers are selected for inclusion on the programme.


Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto)
Donald Baxter (University of Connecticut)
Helen Beebee (University of Manchester)
Martin Bell (University of York)
Lorraine Besser-Jones (Middlebury College)
Simon Blackburn (Cambridge University & UNC, Chapel Hill)
John Bricke (University of Kansas)
Annemarie Butler (Iowa State University)
Angela Calvo de Saavedra (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
Silvio Seno Chibeni (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Rachel Cohon (University at Albany, SUNY)
Tim Costelloe (William and Mary)
Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Remy Debes (University of Memphis)
Richard H. Dees (University of Rochester)
Georges Dicker (SUNY College Brockport)
Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario)
Don Garrett (New York University)
Michael Gill (University of Arizona)
Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere)
Eugene Heath (SUNY - New Paltz)
Kenneth Henley (Florida International University)
Thomas Holden (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Peter Kail (Oxford University)
Cesar Kiraly (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
André Klaudat (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Ann Levey (University of Calgary)
Jane McIntyre (Cleveland State University)
Peter Millican (Oxford University)
William E. Morris
Adriano Naves de Brito (Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos)
David W. D. Owen (University of Arizona)
Dario Perinetti (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Elizabeth Radcliffe (The College of William and Mary)
David Raynor (University of Ottawa)
Wade Robison (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Geoffrey Sayre McCord (University of North Carolina)
Margaret Schabas (The University of British Columbia)
Robert Shaver (University of Manitoba)
Mark G. Spencer (Brock University)
Anik Waldow (University of Sydney)
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College)
Christopher Williams (University of Nevada-Reno)
Ken Winkler (Yale University)

 

 

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