30^th Annual

Hume Society Conference

At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of History,  and the Department Political Science

"Probability, Chance & Judgment"

"Nothing requires greater nicety, in our enquiries concerning human affairs, than to distinguish exactly what is owing to chance and what proceeds from causes" (Essays, XIV/ G&G III,174)

"Besides, we must consider that, according to the present economy of the world, the course of nature, though supposed exactly regular, yet to us appears not so, and many events are uncertain, and many disappoint our expectations. Health and sickness, calm and tempest, with an infinite number of other accidents, whose causes are unknown and variable, have a great influence both on the fortunes of particular persons and on the prosperity of public societies" (DCNR XI/206).

The Hume Society thanks the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the Chairs of the Departments of History, of Political Science, and of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas for their sponsorship of the Conference.