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Karl Hepfer publishes a new German translation of Hume's Second Enquiry. Karl Hepfer of the Universität Erfurt has published a new translation of Hume's Second Enquiry into German, titled David Hume. Eine Untersuchung der Grundlagen der Moral. Transl. &c. by Karl Hepfer (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002). It comes with an extensive introduction, notes on references and background issues, and a comprehensive index. [12.17.03] Ayissi Lucien publishes works on Hume and Kant with the Yaoundé University Press. Enseignant de philosophie à l'Université de Yaoundé 1, je suis un spécialiste de la pensée philosophique de David Hume, par rapport à laquelle j'ai, en 1991, soutenu une thèse de doctorat de 3e cycle intitulée: La place du sujet de la connaissance dans le Traité de la nature humaine de David Hume. Je suis sur le point de soutenir une thèse de doctorat d'Etat en philosophie intitulée: Le positivisme de Hume. Prolégomènes à l'épistémologie positiviste. En marge de ces deux travaux de recherche, j'ai publié aux Presses universitaires de Yaoundé, un opuscule intitulé: Le phénoménisme humien comme prolégomènes à la philosophie transcendantale de Kant. [12.17.03] James Fieser's bibliography of Hume's writings and early responses now available on the web. Thommes Press has placed on its website a free PDF file titled A Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses by James Fieser. The section on Hume's writings is newly compiled and has not appeared elsewhere. The section of Early Responses is as appears at the close of Fieser's recend two-volume Early Responses to Hume's Life and Reputation. The document is typeset at 205 pages and may be either printed or saved to your computer and viewed through Adobe Acrobat viewer. You may access this file at www.thoemmes.com/18cphil/hume_biblio.pdf. [7.9.03] Willem Lemmens publishes a Dutch translation of Hume’s Natural History of Religion and co-edits an introduction to Hume’s philosophy. Willem Lemmens, along with Patricia de Martelaere, co-edited a new introduction--in Dutch--to Hume’s philosophy, David Hume: Filosoof van de menselijke natuur, (Pelckmans/Agora, 2001), the first such introduction in many years. This book contains various essays on Hume’s philosophy by the editors as well as by Flemish (Belgian) philosophers Walter Van Herck from the University of Antwerp and Herman De Dijn from the Catholic University of Louvain and by the Dutch philosopher Pauline Westerman of the University of Groningen. Willem Lemmens also, together with Walter Van Herck, translated into Dutch Hume’s Natural History of Religion. This translation, along with an introduction and annotations, was published in 1999 by Pelckmans/Agora under the title, De naturrlijke geschiedenis van de religie. Willem Lemmens is a member of the Department of Philosophy, the University Antwerp/UFSIA, Belgium. [4.1.03] Adam Potkay and other Hume Society members contribute to the new Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.
The new reference work in four volumes is under the general editorship of
Charles Alan Kors. Adam Potkay has three articles in it -- entries on "biography,"
"passion," and "happiness." Sandy Stewart writes the "Hume" entry in the
Encyclopedia, and other
Hume Society members may be involved as well. [11.26.02] Michelle Mason is named a Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions Faculty Fellow in Ethics. Professor Mason will be a Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions for 2002-2003. She plans to work on a project entitled "Cultivating Character: Moral Virtue, Moral Trusteeship, and Responsibility for 'What One Is'." [2.26.02] Déborah Danowski's translation of the Treatise into Portuguese is published. The first Portuguese translation of the Treatise has just appeared. It is: David Hume, Tratado da Natureza Humana. Translated by Déborah Danowski. São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2001. 711 pp. ISBN: 85-7139-299-4. Déborah Danowski. is a member of the Dept. de Filosofia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, 22453 Rio de Janeiro RJ [2.6.02] Stephen Darwall launches Philosophers' Imprint. Philosophers' Imprint is a refereed series of original papers in philosophy. Edited by Stephen Darwall and J. David Velleman, with the advice of an international Board of Editors, the Imprint is published on the World Wide Web by the University of Michigan Library. The series website is: Philosophers' Imprint. [1.07.02] Marina Frasca-Spada and Peter Kail host Hume Studies in Britain II, 18, 19 September, 2002. Professors Frasca-Spada and Kail, of the University of Edinburgh, announce Hume Studies in Britain II, a conference run under the auspices of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, in collaboration with the Mind Association and the Foundation for Intellectual History. The conference website is: Hume Studies in Britain. [1.07.02] Announcing the formation a Reid Society Professors Knud Haakonssen and Paul Wood and Assistant Professors Rebecca Copenhaver and Terence Cuneo, and Andrew Chignell (PhD candidate at Yale) have begun to organize an international, interdisciplinary Reid Society. The Reid Project at Aberdeen (Professors Maria Rosa Antognazza and Gordon Graham) are also involved in organizing and supporting the society. We will have our founding meeting at the Pacific APA in March in Seattle. We will also have a paper session at the APA. We will discuss and adopt a constitution and assign positions at the business meeting. Unfortunately, because this project has only just begun, we are unable to announce a call for papers for this session. However, we encourage you to attend these meetings and to announce the meeting to anyone interested in Thomas Reid. Please contact Assistant Professor Rebecca Copenhaver at rebeccac@lclark.edu if you have any questions. The specific times for the meetings will be announced later. [11.14.01]
Jacqueline Taylor to be a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow Professor Taylor will be a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the
University Center for Human Values
at Princeton University for 2001-02. She plans to work on a book project
entitled "The Most Material Part of Virtue: Sentiment, Character, and Community
in Hume's Ethics." Hume refers to a concern for community and the good of
society as the most material part of virtue in his essay "That Politics May be
Reduced to a Science." Taylor will focus on how, according to Hume, we
balance the claims of family, friendship, and citizenship, with special
attention to the different kinds of character and moral experience that different moral communities help to produce. [8.04.01] Tatsuya Sakamoto Awarded Japan Academy Prize The
Japan Academy Prize was awarded to Professor Tatsuya Sakamoto, Doctor of
Economics at
Antony Flew Awarded Schlarbaum Prize The
2001 Schlarbaum Laureate is Antony G. N. Flew, emeritus professor of philosophy
at the University of Reading, England. The prize, which is granted by the Ludwig
von Mises Institute and carries a $10,000 cash award, recognizes Professor
Flew's outstanding lifetime achievement in the cause of liberty.
Throughout his long career, Flew has stressed conceptual clarity in philosophy
and has resolutely defended human freedom.
Michelle Mason Awarded Newcombe Fellowship Michelle N. Mason has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship for completion of her doctoral dissertation, Reasons and Virtues: An Inquiry into Instrumental and Non-instrumental Practical Rationality. Michelle is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Chicago. [15.04.99]
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Keio University, on June 11, 2001, in the presence of the Emporer
and Empress of Japan for his book,