Conference Program

The 45th International Hume Society Conference

Hosted by the Institute of Philosophy,
Research Centre for the Humanities,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary

July 23th-27th 2018

Directors
Miren Boehm (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Tamas Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Mark Spencer (Brock University)
Margaret Watkins (Saint Vincent College)

The Hume Society is pleased to announce its 45th annual conference.

Program:

Monday, 23 July

  • 12:45 � 13:00: Opening Remarks
  • 13:00-14:30: Plenary Lecture: Marina Frasca-Spada (University of Cambridge)
  • 14:30-15:00: Coffee Break
  • 15:00-16:30: Panel Discussion: Passions and Morals

                             Rachel Cohon (University at Albany, SUNY)

                             Tito Magri (Sapienza University of Rome)

                             Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)

  • 16:30-17:00: Coffee Break
  • 17:00-18:00: Parallel Sessions

                            1) Pedro Faria (University of Cambridge): �Justice, Economic Activity and the Reframing of Hume�s Social Theory, 1740-1752�

                            Commentator: Ferenc Horcher (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

                            2) Sarah Paquette (Portland State University): �Belief Revisions in the Context of Hume�s Treatise and Contemporary Psychology�

                            Commentator: Katharina Paxman (Brigham Young University)

  • 18:00: Opening Reception

 

Tuesday, 24 July

  • 9:00-10:30: Plenary Lecture: Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen)
  • 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00-12:00: Parallel Sessions

                            1) Nathan Sasser (Greenville Technical College): �The Vulgar Belief in Body is Defeasibly Justified�

                            Commentator: Yongguang Nong (University of Edinburgh)

                            2) Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki) and Ville Vaara (University of Helsinki): �A Quantitative Approach to Royalist and Whig Sources  in Hume�s History of England�

                           Commentator: Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool)

  • 12:00-13:30: Lunch
  • 13:30-14:30: Parallel Sessions

                             1) Alexis Glenn (Brown University): �Hume�s History as Virtuous Hermeneutics: Toward a Humean Sense of Piety�

                             Commentator: Gregory Todd (Independent Scholar)

                             2) Dan Kervick (Independent Scholar): �Hume Against the Geometers: Extension and Geometry in Hume�s Treatise�

                             Commentator: Donald Baxter (University of Connecticut)

  • 14:30-15:00: Coffee Break
  • 15:00-16:30: Panel Discussion: Hume�s Projects

                            James Harris (University of St. Andrews)

                            Hsueh Qu (National University of Singapore)

                            Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)

  • 16:30-17:00: Coffee Break
  • 17:00-18:00: Parallel Sessions

                             1) Jason Fisette (University of Nevada, Reno): �Politeness and the Common Good in Hume�s Political Philosophy�

                             Commentator: Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio (Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al)

                             2) Todd Ryan (Trinity College): �Philo�s Second Circumstance: Malebranche and the General Law Theodicy in Hume�s Dialogues

                             Commentator: Lewis Powell (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

 

Wednesday, 25 July

  • 9:00-10:30: Author Meets Critics Session

                           Author: Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University): The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought


                           Critics:

                           Michael Gill (University of Arizona)

                           John Scott (University of California, Davis)

  • 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00-12:00: Parallel Sessions

                            1) Lorenzo Greco (University of Oxford): �Varieties of Humean Virtue Ethics�

                            Commentator: Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta)

                            2) Tom Pye (King�s College, Cambridge): �Hume, Montesquieu, and English History�

                            Commentator: Marc Hanvelt (Carleton University)

  • 12:00-13:30: Lunch
  • 13:30-15:00: Plenary Lecture: Andrew Sabl (Yale University)
  • 15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
  • 15:30-17:00: Parallel Sessions

                             1) Laura Nicol� (Lichtenberg Kolleg): �The Line and the Circle: the Natural History of Religion and the French�

                             Commentator: Andre Willis (Brown University)

                             2) Dan O�Brien (Oxford Brookes University): �Hume and Virtue Epistemology�

                             Commentator: Ann Levey (University of Calgary)

  • 17:00-17:30: Coffee Break
  • 17:30-18:30: Parallel Sessions

                             1) Bowen Chan (University of Toronto): �Scepticism, Custom, and Hume: Philosophy�s Place in Common Life�

                             Commentator: Kar�nn Durland (Austin College)

                             2) Getty Lustila (Brown University): �Enthusiasm and Modesty in Hume�s History�

                             Commentator: Liz Goodnick (Metropolitan State University)

 

Thursday, 26 July

  • 9:00-10:30: Panel Discussion: Mind and World

                           Kate Abramson (Indiana University, Bloomington)

                           Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick College)

                           Anik Waldow (University of Sydney)

  • 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00-12:00: Parallel Sessions

                             1) Lorraine Besser (Middlebury College): �A Humean Theory of Compassion�

                             Commentator: Esther Kroeker (University of Antwerp)

                             2) Naohito Mori (Kochi University): �On Whether the Tudor Government was an �Absolute Monarchy�: Reconsidering Hume�s View of the Rise of the Civilized Society�

                             Commentator: Max Skjonsberg (University of York)

  • 12:00-13:30: Lunch
  • 13:30-14:30: Parallel Sessions

                            1) Peter Millican (University of Oxford): �Hume�s Decisive Turn Away from Egoism�

                            Commentator: John P. Wright (Central Michigan University)

                            2) Wade Robison (Rochester Institute of Technology): �Hume, Descartes, and Adam: Hume�s Project�

                            Commentator: Karen Valihora (York University)

  • Excursion

 

Friday, 27 July

  • 9:00-10:00: Parallel Sessions

                          1) Alison McIntyre (Wellesley College): �Does Anger Represent Its Object as Evil? Hume vs. Malebranche and Hutcheson at T 2.3.3.5�

                          Commentator: Angela Calvo de Saavedra (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)

                          2) Ryu Susato (Keio University): ��Barometer of the Nation�: Hume�s View of Usury and Interest in the History of England�

                          Commentator: Spiros Tegos (University of Crete)

  • 10:00-10:30: Coffee Break
  • 10:30-11:30: Parallel Sessions

                            1) Keith Hankins (Chapman University) and John Thrasher (Monash University): �The Puzzle of Hume�s Politics�

                            Commentator: William Lemmens (University of Antwerp)

                            2) Christopher Williams (University of Nevada, Reno): �Absent Matters of Fact�

                            Commentator: Ruth Weintraub (Tel-Aviv University)

  • 11:30-13:00: Lunch
  • 13:00-14:00: Parallel Sessions

                            1) Wendel de Holanda Pereira Campelo (Federal University of Minas Gerais): �Hume�s Principle concerning the Existence of Mind-Independent Objects�

                            Commentator: Benjamin Nelson (University of Connecticut)

                            2) Amyas Merivale (University of Oxford): �The Integrity of Hume�s Four Dissertations�

                            Commentator: Jane McIntyre

  • 14:00-15:00: Business Meeting
  • 15:00-16:30: Plenary Lecture: Don Garrett (New York University)
  • 18:00: Conference Banquet