APA/CPA Sessions

1998 to 2007

 

 

 

 

Timeline of APA session administration compiled by Dorothy Coleman updated by Corliss Swain Hume Sessions at APA Meetings - A History
 
Division Venue

Session Description

Eastern

2007

 

Marriott Inner Harbor

Baltimore, MD

December 28, 2007

 

Topic: Humean Theory and Practice

 

Speakers:

Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond, "Hume’s Skeptical Politics"

 

Andrew Lister, Queens University, "Varieties of Scepticism and Toleration"

 

Chair: Daniel Flage, James Madison University

Central

2007

 

Palmer House Hilton

Chicago, IL

 

April 19, 2007

Speakers:

Charlotte Brown, Illinois Wesleyan University,  "Morality Without Metaphysics: Another Look at Hume's Sentimentalism"  [Abstract]

Ted Morris, Illinois Wesleyan University, "Metaphysics without Metaphysics: Projection, Representation, and Hume's Repudiation of Metaphysics" Abstract

Pacific

2007

The Westin St. Francis
San Francisco, CA
 

April 5, 2007

Thursday, April 5, 2007
6:00-8:00 p.m.


Topic: Hume: Reasons and Reasoning

Speakers:

Abraham Roth, Ohio State University, “Hume on Reasoning: Simple Versus Sophisticated”


Elizabeth Radcliffe, Santa Clara University,
“Humeanism and Value-Based Reasons” [Abstract]


Chair: Aaron Zimmerman, University of California–Santa Barbara

Eastern 2006 103rd Annual Meeting

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC

December 30, 2006

Chair: 

 

Speakers Ira J. Singer, Hofstra University, "Hume's Moral Critique of Religion"


Kenneth Winkler, Wellesley College and Yale University,  "Causal Realism and Hume's Revisions of the Enquiry"

 

Organizer: Kathleen Wallace, Hofstra University

Central

2006

104th Annual Meeting

Palmer House Hilton

Chicago, IL

April 27, 2006

Chair:  Karann Durland, Austin College

Author Meets Critics: Claudia Schmidt, Marquette University, David Hume: Reason in History

Critics: Corliss Swain , St. Olaf College
Saul Traiger,, Occidental College
Christopher Williams, University of Nevada–Reno

Pacific

2006

80th Annual Meeting

 

The Portland Hilton
Portland, OR

March 23, 2006

Chair: Saul Traiger, Occidental College

Speaker: Jackie Taylor,  University of San Francisco,   "Hume on Beauty and  Virtue"

Organizers: C. Swain, St. Olaf College, and J. McIntyre, Cleveland State University

Eastern

2005

102nd Annual Meeting

 

Hilton New York

New York, NY

December 28, 2005

Chair: Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond

Speakers:

Lorne Falkenstein, University of Western Ontario, "Hume and Reid on Objectivity"
 

Peter Loptson, Guelph University, "Hume and Smith: Projects in Social Science and the Roots of Normativity"
 

James Harris, University of St Andrews, "Hume and Kames"

Central

2005

103nd Annual Meeting

 

Palmer House Hilton

Chicago, IL

 

April 28, 2005

Chair: Dorothy Coleman, Northern Illinois University

 

Speaker:  Abraham Roth, University of Illinois at Chicago  "Skepticism and Psychology in Hume on Causal Inference"

 

Speaker:  Peter Kail,  University of Edinburgh  "Understanding Hume's Natural History of Religion"

Pacific

2005

79th Annual Meeting

The Westin St. Francis
San Francisco, CA
March 22 - 27, 2005

 

No Group Meeting

Eastern

2004

101st Annual Meeting

 

Boston Marriott Copley Place and

Westin Copley Place

Boston, MA

 

December 30, 2004

 

Topic: Hume’s Essays

 Speaker: Neil McArthur,  University  of Southern California, The Mandevillian Moment: Virtue, Commerce and Government in Hume's Essays"

Commentator: Eugene Heath, State University of New York at New Platz 

Speaker: Christopher Williams, University of Nevada-Reno, “Hume and Spenser”

Commentator: Sara Coodin, McGill University

Chair: Tim Costello

Central

2004

102nd Annual Meeting

 

Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois
April 22-25, 2004

Normativity in Hume

 

Speaker: Ted Morris,  Illinois Wesleyan University

 

Speaker:  Jane McIntyre, Cleveland State University

Pacific

2004

78th Annual Meeting

Hilton Pasadena
Pasadena, CA
March 27, 2004

 

S. Nicholas Jolley,  The University of California -Irvine

"Hume, Malebranche, and the Last Occult Quality"

Eastern 2003 100th Annual Meeting

Washington Hilton
Washington, D.C.

December 27-30, 2003

Hume's Political Philosophy

Speaker:  Tim Costelloe, College of William and Mary 

"Nature and Artifice: Hume on Religious Belief, Justice, and Allegiance to Government"

Commentator: Angela Coventry,  University of Arizona

 

Speaker:  Aaron Garrett, Boston Univeristy

"Hume on Character and Politics"

Commentator:  Eric Schliesser, Washington University

Central

2003

100th annual meeting

 

Cleveland Renaissance


Cleveland, OH
April 24-26, 2003    
 

Author Meets Critics:  Louis Loeb’s Stability and Justification in Hume’s ‘Treatise

Chair:  Dorothy Coleman, Northern Illinois University
Panelists:
Kate Abramson, University of Illinois, Champaigne-Urbana
Ted Morris, Illinois Wesleyan University
John Wright, Central Michigan University
Louis Loeb, University of Michigan

Pacific

2003

77th Annual Meeting

The Westin St. Francis

San Francisco, CA
March 29, 2003

Chair: Mark Collier, Stanford University)

Speaker: Jerry Fodor, Rutgers University

"Hume vs. Wittgenstein (Hume Wins)"

Eastern 2002

99th Annual Meeting
 

The Philadelphia Marriott
Philadelphia, PA

 

December 28

Chair: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

Speaker: Rachel Cohon, SUNY-Albany

"Hume on Pleasure"

 

Speaker:  Michelle Mason, University of Minnesota

"Humean Reasons"

Central 2002 100th Annual Meeting
 

Westin Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL


April 25-37, 2002

Chair: Tim Costelloe, College of William and Mary

Speaker:  Jacqueline Taylor, Tufts University

"Sympathy, Sentiment, and Character in Hume's Second Enquiry"

 

Speaker:   James King,  Northern Illinois University

"Shifts in Hume's Two Accounts of Justice: Substance or Style?"

 

Speaker:   Rachel Cohon, SUNY-Albany

"The Deeper Origin of Morals in the Treatise."

Pacific 2002

76th Annual Meeting


Westin Hotel
Seattle, Washington
 

March 27 - 31, 2002

Hume’s Science of the Mind
Chair: Mark Collier,  Stanford University

Speaker: Anne Jacobson, University of Houston
"Hume and the New Neuroscience: A Novel Reading of an Old Theory"

Speaker: Saul Traiger, Occidental College
"Imagination and Legal Reasoning in Hume’s Science of Mind"

Eastern 2001 98th Annual Meeting
Atlanta Hilton
Atlanta, GA
December 28, 2001,

Chair:  Michelle Mason


Speaker:   Richard Dees, University of Rochester

"Morality Above  Metaphysics: Philo's Stance in Dialogue XII"

 

Speaker:  Lorne Falkenstein, University of Western Ontario

"Hume s Purposes in the Natural History of Religion "

Central

2001

99th Annual Meeting

 

Hyatt Regency


Minneapolis, MN
MAY 2 - 5, 2001

 

No Group Meeting
Pacific 2001 75th Annual Meeting
Renaissance Parc 55
San Francisco, CA
March 29, 2001

Chair:  Mark Collier (Stanford University)

 

Speaker:  Wade L. Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology

"The Unity of Hume's Thought"

Eastern 2000

97th Annual Meeting


New York Hilton
New York, NY
December 27 - 30, 2000

Chair:  Elizabeth Radcliffe


Speaker:  Janet Broughton, UC-Berkeley

"The Inquiry in the Treatise"


Speaker:   James O'Shea,  University College Dublin

"The Role of Reflection in Hume"

Central

2000

99th Annual Meeting


Palmer House Hilton Chicago, IL

April 21, 2000

 Speaker:   Todd Ryan, Trinity College

 "Hume's Theory of Relations"

 

 Speaker:   Ryan Nichols, Ohio State University

 "Hume and Reid on Conception"

Pacific

2000

74th Annual Meeting


The Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque , NM
April 6, 2000

Chair:  David Owen, University of Arizona


Speaker:  Francis Dauer, UC, Santa Barbara
"Some Remarks on the Vulgar System"
 

Commentator:  Miriam McCormick, Grinnell

Central

 1999

97th Annual Meeting
 

Hyatt Regency

New Orleans, LA

May 7, 1999

Speaker:   James Shelley, Augustana College

"Reason and Normativity in Hume's Theory of Taste"    
 

Speaker:  Karann Durland, Austin College 

"Hume on Primary and Secondary Qualities

Central 1998

96th Annual Meeting

 

Palmer House Hilton Chicago, IL


May 7, 1998

Chair:  Kathleen Schmidt, Ohio State University


 Speaker:   Donald C. Ainslie, University of Toronto "Hume's Perceptions and Locke's Ideas"
 

Speaker:   Daniel Jacobson, College of Charleston

 "Hume's Moralist Aesthetic

 

 

 


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