Reception of British Authors in Europe Research Project

School of Advanced Study, University of London

Director: Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA

European Responses to David Hume

14-15 June 2002, Senate House

A Colloquium will be held on 14^th & 15^th June 2002 entitled 'European Responses to David Hume since 1739'. It will take place in the Court Room of Senate House, University of London, Malet St WC1, and is being convened by Prof. Peter Jones under the auspices of the Research Project and with the support of the British Academy. It will look at the reception of Hume's ideas on the Continent of Europe since the first publication of his work in 1739.

The Colloquium will enable contributors to the Project's volume on the European Reception of Hume to present their findings. No complete edition of Hume's works has yet been published, nor has his work been translated into many other languages. One major key lies in the circulation of French journals throughout Europe, and among topics to be covered will be the influence of Jesuit writings about Hume, the circulation of Hume's ideas by means of continental philosophical criticism, especially after Kant, and the extent to which Hume's History was selectively interpreted.

Programme

FRIDAY 14 JUNE

Court Room, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, WC1

2.30 pm               Introductions

          Elinor Shaffer – The Research Project 'The Reception of British Authors in Europe'

           Peter Jones – European Responses to David Hume

3.00 pm           M.A. Stewart (Emeritus, Lancaster) - Responses to Hume's Writings on Religion

3.45 pm        James Harris (St Catherine's College, Oxford) - 19^th Century Responses to Hume's Moral Philosophy

4.30 pm           BREAK

4.45 pm        Emilio Mazza (Istituto di Scienze Umane, Milan) - Translations of Hume's Works in Italy

5.30 pm        John Wright (Central Michigan University) - Scientific Responses to Hume's Writings

7.30 pm          COLLOQUIUM DINNER at the Court Restaurant, British Museum

(cost £14.50 excl. drinks & service)

SATURDAY 15 JUNE

Court Room, Senate House, University of London

9.15 am          Andrew Skinner (Emeritus, Glasgow) - Hume's Economics: Precursor to Steuart

10.00 am      Athanassia Glycofrydi-Leontsini (Athens) - Hume's Aesthetic Ideas in Greece

10.45 am          BREAK

11.00am          Bozena Kuznierz (Jagiellonian, Cracow) - Responses to Hume in Poland

11.45am          Paola Zanardi (Ferrara) - Italian Responses to Hume

12.45 - 2 pm Break for LUNCH - suggestions for local places to eat will be made on the day

2.15 pm        Pál Ács (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Responses to Hume in the Austro-Hungarian Region

3.00 pm          Panel discussion with all speakers

3.45pm          BREAK

4.00- 5.00 pm Elinor Shaffer and Peter Jones: Editorial matters and procedures relating to the

 Series Volume 'The Reception of David Hume in Europe'

All are welcome to attend.

Registration costs £25 (£15 for concessions). You may register in advance by sending your name and contact details, including an email address where applicable, and a cheque made payable to the University of London to the Project Office:

Reception of British Authors in Europe

School of Advanced Study

Senate House

Malet Street

London WC1E 7HU

Further information can be obtained from Lachlan Moyle at the Project Office: Lachlan.Moyle@sas.ac.uk; tel. 020 7862 8695.

The volume on the European Reception of Hume is part of the Project's sub-series on Philosophers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

The editor of the volume is Peter Jones, FRSE, FRSA, FSA Scotland, Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, former Director of the University's Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and a leading Hume scholar.