Spring 1997, Vol. XXVI, No. 1
Bulletin of the
HUME SOCIETY
Department of Philosophy -
Occidental College, Los Angeles, California 90041, USA
Mikael Karlsson Appointed Executive Secretary-Treasurer for
1998-2002 Term
The Executive Committee is pleased to
announce the appointment of Professor Mikael M. Karlsson of the University
of Iceland to a five year term as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the
Hume Society, beginning January 1, 1998, when the Business Office of the
Society will move from Los Angeles to Reykjavik. Until then, please
continue to send all business correspondence to Saul Traiger at Occidental
College. More information about the transition will appear in the fall
issue of the Bulletin.
24th Hume Society
Conference: Hume Along the Pacific Rim, July 29 - August 2,
1997
The 24th Hume Society Conference is fast
approaching. It will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel at Fisherman's Wharf,
in Monterey, California, beginning around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29th,
and ending with a banquet on Saturday evening, August 2nd. The following
information will help with travel arrangements and hotel reservations.
Information about preregistration and fees will arrive in a separate
mailing to the Society.
TRAVEL: Flying directly into
Monterey is much more expensive than flying into nearby San Francisco or
San Jose. Ground transportation on the "Salinas/Monterey Airbus" is
available at San Francisco International (SFO) and San Jose International
(SJC) airports; rental cars are also available. Monterey is approximately
130 miles from SFO and 90 miles from SJC. The Monterey Peninsula Airport
is four miles outside of Monterey.
Bus Service from SFO and SJC.
The Salinas/Monterey Airbus departs from SFO five times a day, traveling
down to SJC and then on down to the Monterey peninsula, with one stop at
Salinas, according to the following schedule:
Leave SFO 9:30 am
12:30 pm 3:30 pm 6:00 pm 8:30 pm; Leave: SJC 10:30 am 1:30 pm 4:30 pm 7:00
pm 9:30 pm; Arrive: Monterey 12:30 pm 3:30 pm 6:30 pm 9:00 pm 11:30 pm
Advance reservations are recommended, and 24-hour advance purchase
(or more) is slightly discounted. The highest fare is one person, one way,
no advance, at $30 (either airport). Fares per person drop off according
to the number in your party and whether you purchase round trip and in
advance. The phone number for reservations is 800-291-2877, at which you
can get exact fee and airport pick-up point information. (This information
can be found on the conference web site as well.) The bus drop in
Monterey, at the Monterey Transit Plaza, is located at the corner of
Alvarado and Pearl Streets. The DoubleTree at the Wharf, at 2 Portola
Plaza, is 3 blocks north, up Alvarado Street, and attached to the Monterey
Conference Center.
By Car. Option 1: From either airport, follow
signs to Highway 101 South. Shortly after passing Gilroy, CA,
approximately 70 miles south of SFO and 35 miles south of SJC, take Exit
156 West (right hand exit: Monterey Peninsula). Merge into Highway 1
South.
Option 2 (Scenic route and slightly faster): From SFO, take
Highway 101 South. At San Jose, just past San Jose International
Airport, exit onto Highway 880 South. From SJC, take Highway 880 South. A
few miles beyond San Jose, 880 becomes Highway 17. Follow Highway 17 South
over the Santa Cruz Mountains. Just outside of Santa Cruz, take the exit
to Highway 1 South (right hand exit: sign will say "Salinas/Monterey").
For either option, continue: Take Highway 1 South to Pacific
Grove, CA. At Pacific Grove, take the Del Monte Exit, merge into
Del Monte Boulevard and get into the left hand lane. Del Monte Boulevard
will become a one-way street. Proceed about 1.5 miles, and the hotel will
be located on the right hand side of Del Monte Boulevard.
HOTEL
ACCOMMODATIONS: The Hume Society has reserved a block of rooms at the
DoubleTree at the Wharf at the rate of $119/single and $139/double per
night. This is a discount of $30 over the regular rate. As you can tell,
rooms in Monterey in the summer are expensive, and we expect that many
people will want to share.
Room Reservations. To make a
reservation, call 800-222-TREE (800-222-8733). When you phone, make sure
you say that you are reserving a room for the Hume Conference so that you
get the discounted rate. The cut-off date for reservations is June
20th, but the earlier you make reservations, the better.
Roommate Bulletin Board. Help in finding roommates will be
provided at the conference web site, on the "Hotel" page. You may submit
your name for others to contact you about sharing a room, or you may
contact others already listed there. Submit your name and a way to contact
you, to Elizabeth Radcliffe (preferably by e-mail, see below). Please have
your name removed from the list when you no longer need a roommate.
FEES: The mandatory conference fee is $45, and includes the
packet of papers to be presented at the conference and an invitation to an
opening-day reception. There is an additional $20 fee for an excursion to
the Carmel Valley and Big Sur on Thursday afternoon, July 31st, and a $30
fee for the closing banquet, to be held Saturday evening, August 2nd.
Conferees may also purchase guest tickets for the excursion and the
banquet when they preregister. All Hume Society members will receive
registration forms by the end of April; preregistration and payment is
required by June 20th.
MONTEREY'S CLIMATE: Monterey's
summer climate is moderate. There is typically no rain, but mornings are
often foggy. The average daytime high in late July is about 70 degrees F.,
and the average low is 52. Bringing sweaters or jackets is advisable.
GETTING AROUND MONTEREY: The Doubletree at the Wharf is in
the heart of Monterey, in the lovely historic district, a few steps from
the wharf, shops, cafes and restaurants. Being without a car is no problem
for those who want to take advantage of the vast array of things to see
and do in the Monterey area. The Wave (the Waterfront Area Visitor
Express) will take riders to Cannery Row, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and
various stops in Pacific Grove. One person can ride all day for $1.
CONFERENCE WEB SITE:
http://www-acc.scu.edu/~eradcliffe/24thhumeconference.html
QUESTIONS? Many questions may be answered by consulting the
conference web site. Direct other questions about the conference site,
accommodations, and travel to Elizabeth Radcliffe, e-mail:
eradcliffe@scuacc.scu.edu (preferred form of correspondence). Phone and
address until June 15th: 919-967- 1767; Dept. of Philosophy, C.B. #3125,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125. Phone and
address after June 15th: 408-554-4093; Dept. of Philosophy, Santa Clara
University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-0310.
CONFERENCE
CO-DIRECTORS:
Kenneth Winkler
(kwinkler@wellesley.edu)
Tatsuya Sakamoto
(saka@econ.mita.keio.ac.jp)
Elizabeth Radcliffe
(eradcliffe@scuacc.scu.edu)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Wade Robison, on the conference theme, "Nature and
Convention"
Jerome Schneewind, on the conference theme,
"Hume and the Moral Rationalists"
Ryuei Tsueshita,
president of the Japanese Society for British Philosophy
John
Wright, on the conference theme, "Hume and the Sciences"
Book
panel on Don Garrett's Cognition and Commitment in Hume's
Philosophy: Robert Fogelin, Peter Millican, Margaret Wilson, Don
Garrett
PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED:
Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto), "Hume's Reflections
on Personal Identity"
Gerry Callaghan (University of
Western Ontario), "Thomas Reid on Hume's Science of the Mind"
Rachel Cohon (Stanford University), "Hume on Feeling and
Knowing Virtue"
William Davie (University of Oregon),
"Hume's General Point of View"
Graciela De Pierris (Indiana
University), "Hume's Pyrrhonian Skepticism and the Belief in Causal Laws"
Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario), "What
Happens When Beliefs Conflict?"
Peter Fosl (Hollins
College), "Hume, Wittgenstein, and Cavell on Nature and Convention"
Jonathan Friday (University of Aberdeen), "Hume's Skeptical
Standard of Taste"
Michael B. Gill (Purdue University), "On
the Alleged Incompatibility between Sentimentalism and Moral Confidence"
Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University Mansfield), "Accounting
for Hume's Unaccountable Pleasure"
Donald C. Hubin (Ohio
State University), "What's Special About Humeanism?"
Masaki
Ichinose (Tokyo University), "Hume's Three Concepts of Cause"
Toshihiko Ise (Ritsumeikan University), "How Conventional
is a Promise?"
P.J.E. Kail (Clare College, Cambridge),
"Values and Secondary Qualities in Hume"
Erin Kelly (Tufts
University), "Moral Agency and Free Choice: Hume's Criticism of Rational
Agency"
James T. King (Northern Illinois University),
"Pride and Hume's Sensible Knave"
Allister Macleod (Queen's
University), "Hume, Hampton, and the Instrumental Theory of Rationality"
Kevin Meeker (University of Notre Dame), "Hume's Iterative
Probablity Argument: A Pernicious Reductio"
Tomoko Morita
(Seikei University), "Hume on Liberty"
Satoshi Niimura
(Okayama University), "The Difference Between Hume's and Smith's Concepts
of Sympathy"
A.E.Pitson (University of Stirling), "Memory
and Imagination: Does Hume Contradict Himself?"
Louis Reich
(Fullerton, CA), "Hume's Religious Naturalism"
Ken Richman
(Rutgers University), "Hume's Alleged Newtonianism"
Michael
Ridge (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
"Reflective
Endorsement and the Understanding in Hume's
Treatise"
Abraham S. Roth (Brandeis University), "What was Hume's
Problem with Personal Identity?"
Tetsu Sakurai (Kobe
University), "The Correlation between Hume's Empiricism and his Social
Theory"
Fay Sawyier (Indiana University), "Hume's
Probability Machine"
Hitoshi Tamura (Nagoya University),
"The Modern Concept of Man and Hume on Personal Identity"
Sergio Tenenbaum (University of New Mexico), "What Reason
Separates Reason Shall Not Join Together"
Holly Gail Thomas
(UC Santa Cruz), "A New Reading of the Central Sceptical Argument in the
Enquiry"
Peter Vanderschraaf (California Institute of
Technology), "The Farmer's Dilemma and Conventions of Economic Exchange"
EXCURSION TO THE CARMEL VALLEY AND BIG SUR: The conference
schedule will include an afternoon excursion to Chateau Julien Winery in
the Carmel Valley and to Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur, for refreshments
on the two outdoor patios high overlooking the ocean. The winery is
described in this way: "Chateau Julien, designed in French Country Style,
is nestled on a 16 acre wine estate at the foot of the beautiful Carmel
Valley mountains. The Winery boasts breathtaking vistas of the lush green
valley where sunsets are unforgettable and rainbows bounce off the hills."
Big Sur is a 90-mile stretch of coastline that begins a few miles south of
Carmel and is known around the world for its spectacular beauty. The drive
to Nepenthe, along winding Highway 1, crosses the massive Bixby Bridge,
spanning the Bixby Canyon "with grace and grandeur almost equal to the
natural wonders of Big Sur."
SPONSORSHIP: This conference
is sponsored in part by Wellesley College and Santa Clara University's
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy, and Office
of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
25th Hume
Society Conference Update
The following information
is provided by Tony Pitson, conference co-director and site coordinator
for the Twenty-fifth Hume Society.
The site for the Twenty-fifth
Hume Society Conference, scheduled for July 20-24 1998, is the University
of Stirling, Scotland. Conference meetings will take place in the
Management Centre which is situated on the University campus and
accommodation will be available there for the majority of those attending
the Conference. Additional accommodation will be available in the town of
Stirling, in the form of recently built University flats. The campus
itself, which is sited in an Eighteenth Century estate, is widely regarded
as one of the most beautiful in Britain. It is about a mile from the
historic town of Stirling which is within an hour's drive of both Glasgow
and Edinburgh airports. Stirling is also a gateway to the magnificent
scenery of the Highlands, and an excursion is planned to some of the most
picturesque and historic parts of this area of central Scotland. Closing
date for submissions, as announced in the Call for Papers, is November 1,
1997, and selected themes are Hume's first Enquiry and the
development of Hume's philosophy after the Treatise. For further
information, contact one of the directors (Jane McIntyre, Peter Millican,
or Tony Pitson). The conference has a website at the address:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/acom/hume1998.htm which will be regularly updated
with information about the conference programme, site, travel and
accommodation.
Conference sites for 2000 and
2001
The Executive Committee will consider
invitations from those interested in hosting a conference of the Society
in 2000 or in 2001. With Stirling set for 1998 and Cork set for 1999, the
presumption is that in both 2000 and 2001, the Society will meet on the
North American continent.
Each of these years is significant. At
least one of them is the
millennium, and the second bears the same
name as a famous
movie. Neither bears any obvious relation to
Hume, but if you host a great Hume conference one of those years, it (and
you) will.
What the Executive Committee needs is an expression of
intent to host a conference. That may be sent either to Saul Traiger,
Executive Secretary-Treasurer, or to Wade Robison, President. The decision
about which invitations to accept will be determined by the Executive
Committee.
Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century: A
Conference
The Institute for the Study of Modern
Philosophy, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of
Philosophy and Womens Studies Program sponsor a conference on Women
Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, to be held Friday afternoon,
November 7, through Sunday morning, November 9, 1997. Seventeenth century
philosophers to be discussed include Marie de Gournay, Madeleine de
Scudery, Margaret Cavendish, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Anne Conway, Damaris
Masham, Mary Astell, the French maxim writings and scholastic thinkers.
Participants include Mary Ellen Waithe (Cleveland), Erica Harth
(Brandeis), John Conley (Fordham), Desmond Clarke (Cork), Gerald Cox Flynn
(Milwaukee), Kenneth Clatterbaugh (Washington), Eileen O'Neill
(Massachusetts), Daniel Garber (Chicago), Lisa Shapiro (Pittsburgh),
Allison Coudert (Arizona), Sarah Hutton (Hertfordshire), Robert Sleigh
(Massachusetts), Catherine Wilson (Alberta), Ruth Perry (MIT), and
Jonathan Rée (London).
Information about lodging, meals, and
transportation, along with a more detailed program, will be available in
the spring of 1997. If you wish to receive this information, please send
your name and address (including an e-mail address if you have one) to:
Conference WOMENPHIL 17, Philosophy Department, Box 30525, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. E-mail:
conf@philos.umass.edu
Recent Books
and Monographs by Hume Society Members
Baron,
Marcia W., Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology, Ithaca, N.Y.,
Cornell University Press, 1995.
"With characteristic
good sense, Marcia W. Baron addresses two persistent worries about Kant's
moral philosophy: that it makes too much of duty, and it credits too
little to feeling. Taking the objections seriously, she examines Kant's
relevant texts with unusual thoroughness and attention to detail. The
result is a judicious, qualified defense of some important aspects of
Kant's ethics that are often misunderstood. Anyone inclined to dismiss
Kant's ethics as irreparably rigoristic and passionless should read
Baron's careful study first. More generally, anyone seriously interested
in ethics may learn from the distinctions and arguments Baron makes in the
course of her defense." - Thomas E. Hill, Jr., University of North
Carolina
Garrett, Don, Cognition and Commitment in Hume's
Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and
contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from
his writings. Don Garrett demonstrates that such criticisms of Hume are
without basis. Offering fresh and trenchant solutions to longstanding
problems in Hume studies, Garrett's penetrating analysis also makes clear
the continuing relevance of Hume's philosophy.
Millgram,
Elijah, Practical Induction, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University
Press, 1997
Practical reasoning is not just a matter of
determining how to get what you want, but of working out what to want in
the first place. In Practical Induction Elijah Millgram argues that
experience plays a central role in this process of deciding what is or is
not important or worth pursuing. He takes aim at instrumentalism, a view
predominant among philosophers today, which holds that the goals of
practical reasoning are basic in the sense that they are given by desires
that are not themselves the product of practical reasoning. The view
Millgram defends is "practical induction," a method of reasoning from
experience similar to theoretical induction.
What are the
practical observations that teach us what to want? Millgram suggests they
are pleasant and unpleasant experiences on the basis of which we form
practical judgments about particular cases. By generalizing from these
judgments--that is, by practical induction--we rationally arrive at our
views about what matters. Learning new priorities from experience is
necessary if we are to function in a world of ever-changing circumstances.
And we need to be able to learn both from our own and from others'
experience. It is this, Millgram contends, that explains the cognitive
importance of both our capacity for pain and pleasure and our capacity for
love. Pleasure's role in cognition is not that of a goal but that of a
guide. Love's role in cognition derives from its relation to our trusting
the testimony of others about what does and does not matter and about what
merits our desire.
Murray, Patrick, ed., Reflections on
Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the
Present, New York: Routledge, 1996.
This new
student-friendly work is an anthology of writings from the ancient Greeks
to contemporary thinkers. It provides students with an opportunity to
develop a more self-conscious and critical understanding of commercial
life. It also challenges mainstream economics and defines the social forms
that make up commercial life, such as money, the commodity, age-labor, and
capital.
Patrick Murray draws a variety of writings from the
seminal works of the most important thinkers in economics and philosophy.
Through an inquiry into history, nature, and outcomes, Reflections of
Commercial Life is an important anthology that offers students the
opportunity to explore, as never before, alternatives to modern commercial
life.
Whelan, Frederick G., Edmund Burke in India: Political
Morality and Empire, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press,
1996.
Whelan's study of Edmund Burke's political thought
is the first thorough treatment of his views on India, even though the
affairs of the British Indian empire occupied more of Burke's attention --
and occupy more space among his writings and speeches -- than any of the
other causes to which he devoted himself during his long public career.
Great Britain's Indian empire had been firmly established shortly
before Burke's entry into parliamentary politics. Having become convinced
that the imperial regime was deeply tainted by tyranny and corruption,
Burke led a campaign to reform its administration and bring the offenders
to account, most notably in his lengthy impeachment prosecution of Warren
Hastings, the former governor of Bengal. As in the case of the American
colonies, Burke was prepared to support a British empire only if it could
be ruled justly and for the welfare of all its subjects.
Relating
Burke's views on India to ideas expressed in his other writings, Whelan
offers a comprehensive assessment of Burke's political theory as a whole.
Burke appears here as one of the few classic political thinkers in the
Western canon to have made a serious and sustained effort to understand a
non-European society and culture.
Yolton, John W.,
Perception and Reality: A History from Descartes to Kant, Ithaca,
N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1996, 248 pages.
Perception and Reality examines the theories of perception
implicit in the work of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophers
which centered on the question: How is knowledge of the body possible?
That question raises issues of mind-body relation, the way that mentality
links with physicality, and the nature of the known world.
Other Recent Books
Beiser, F.C.,
The Sovereignty of Reason: The Defense of Rationality in the Early
English Enlightenment, Princeton University Press, 1997. 328
p.
The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the
rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the
arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of
truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals:
Scripture, inspiration, and apostolic tradition. Frederick Beiser argues
that the main threat to the authority of reason in seventeenth-century
England came not only from dissident groups but chiefly from the
Protestant theology of the Church of England. The triumph of reason was
the result of a new theology rather than the development of natural
philosophy, which upheld the orthodox Protestant dualism between the
heavenly and earthly. Rationalism arose from a break with the traditional
Protestant answers to problems of salvation, ecclesiastical polity, and
the true faith. Although the early English rationalists were not able to
defend all their claims on behalf of reason, they developed a moral and
pragmatic defense of reason that is still of interest today.
Beiser's book is a detailed examination of some neglected figures
of early modern philosophy, who were crucial in the development of modern
rationalism. There are chapters devoted to Richard Hooker, the Great Tew
Circle, the Cambridge Platonists, the early ethical rationalists, and the
free-thinkers John Toland and Anthony Collins.
Sellars,
Wilfrid, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge,
MA, Harvard University Press, 1997.
Introduction
by Richard Rorty
Study Guide by Robert Brandom
The most
important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century
philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the
epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document
in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it
helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link,
which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of
"knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning
analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical
empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology."
With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within
the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert
Brandom, this publication of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development
of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would
understand that philosophy or its history.
Riley, Patrick,
Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1996.
Although Leibniz is universally regarded as
the greatest German philosopher before Kant, his work as a political and
moral philosopher is almost entirely neglected in the English-speaking
world, where he is seen chiefly as a metaphysician, mathematical logician,
and co-discoverer of calculus. Yet Leibniz' doctoral degree was in law and
jurisprudence, and he served throughout his life as a judge and a
diplomat; he was a valued political--legal adviser to Czar Peter the
Great, to the King of Prussia in Berlin, and to the Holy Roman Emperor in
Vienna. Patrick Riley recovers this crucial part of Leibniz' thought and
activity.
For the first time--as we celebrate the 350th
anniversary of Leibniz' birth--his political, moral, and legal thought are
extensively discussed here in English. The text includes fragments of his
work that have never before been translated. Riley shows that "justice as
wise charity" has at least as much claim to be taken seriously as the
familiar contractarian ideas of Hobbes and Locke. Since Leibniz was the
greatest Platonist of early modernity, Riley argues, his version of
Platonic idealism serves as the bridge from Plato himself to the greatest
modern "critical" idealist, Kant. With Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence we
now have a fuller picture of one of the greatest general thinkers of the
seventeenth century.
ISECS Congress Dublin
1999
The 1999 Hume Conference will take place
July 19 to 23, 1999 in Cork, Ireland, just before the ISECS
conference.
The tenth ISECS Congress on the
Enlightenment will take place 25-31 July 1999 at University College
Dublin. The hosts will be the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and the
congress organizer is Andrew Carpenter, English Department, University
College, Dublin 4, email andrew.carpenter@ucd.ie; fax +353 1 706 1174.
The academic and social activities of the congress will last from
Sunday evening 25 July until Saturday evening 31 July. The main venue will
be the 360 acre campus of University College Dublin (UCD), three miles
from Dublin city centre, within easy reach of the airport and served by
excellent public transport. Other venues for academic and social
activities include Trinity College Dublin, Marsh's Library, Dublin Castle
and Newman House.
UCD is the largest university in Ireland and an
ideal location for the congress. The university residences -- a new
development of high-quality apartments -- are adjacent to the academic
buildings. The price of accommodation in these residences is very
reasonable and their quality is very high. Six hundred places have been
reserved here for the ISECS congress and bookings will be taken by the
congress office from 1 January 1998.
The UCD College restaurants
provide good food at reasonable prices. There are also three bars on the
campus as well as a modern sports complex. A three-star hotel is adjacent
to the campus and guest houses and restaurants are also close by. In the
greater Dublin area, accommodation of all types, up to de-luxe standard,
is available, and the congress organizers will make bookings for those who
prefer to stay in hotels or guest houses.
The Eighteenth-Century
Ireland Society extends a warm invitation to all members of societies
affiliated with ISECS to come to the Dublin congress in 1999. The congress
will be multi-disciplinary and its main themes will include
millenarianism, revolution and life "at the margins". The official
languages will be English and French although the Eighteenth-Century
Ireland Society will also be holding some sessions in the Irish language.
Academic sessions will be organized in two ways: some will address
particular subjects, themes, or individuals (e.g.: Jonathan Swift;
l'influence de la Révolution française; Scotland in the 18c.; exploration
and discovery in the 18c.; l'histoire du livre en Irlande au 18c.; women
writers in eighteenth-century Boston; literary theory and 18c studies; la
poésie française du 18c.; David Hume; popular culture on the margins of
18c Europe; etc.) while others will address more general topics. We hope
that papers in almost every field of eighteenth-century scholarship will
be given at the Dublin congress.
In order to ensure that sessions
on particular subjects reflect the interests of those attending the
congress, the committee now invites all those who are willing to organize
sessions or round tables on special topics or on specific
eighteenth-century individuals, to send proposals to Andrew Carpenter as
soon as possible, and in any case not later than 31 March 1997. All
proposals will be acknowledged and considered by the organizing committee,
though timetable limitations mean that it may not be possible to accept
them all.
A list of the proposals for sessions or round tables
which have been accepted, with the names and addresses of their
organizers, will be published by the congress committee at the end of the
summer of 1997. After that, members of all affiliated societies will
receive a general call for papers. These may be designed for one of the
special sessions or round tables on specific topics (as noted above), or
for one of the general sessions, to be organized by the Dublin committee.
The congress registration fee: (provisional: to be confirmed) is
IR£95 to include all academic events, receptions/buffets (including a
State reception), tea and coffee, and local transport as necessary. The
registration fee does not include either accommodation or the Congress
Dinner (to be held in the Dining Hall of Trinity College). On Wednesday 28
July, there will be a choice of optional excursions to places of interest
near Dublin. A special programme for "accompanying persons" will be
arranged at a fee of IR£50 to include entrance to all receptions and
social events, and some cultural visits. Bursaries for scholars from
Eastern Europe and the developing world will be available, as will
scholarships for students.
Although Dublin, as Europe's finest
eighteenth-century capital, has more than enough to delight and interest
all those attending the congress, the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
sees the congress as an opportunity for delegates to enjoy the rest of
Ireland as well. In addition to the events scheduled as part of the main
congress therefore, we propose a selection of optional (extra-cost) three-
and four-day tours of Ireland before and after the congress. Details of
these will be circulated in 1998.
If you have any queries about
the Dublin Congress, please write, send a fax or an e-mail message to the
organizer, Andrew Carpenter, English Department, University College,
Dublin 4, Ireland.
ADDITIONAL SESSIONS IN NAPLES!! ISECS is
pleased to announce that, in addition to the Dublin Congress, two
supplementary sessions will be held in Naples in September 1999. The
Dublin registration fee includes these sessions. Enquiries to Alberto
Postigliola, Via Cittá di Castello 13, 00191 Rome, Italy.
The Mandeville Symposium: Queen's University - May 16th
& 17th, 1997
The Mandeville Symposium will be
held at the newly-renovated Donald Gordon Conference Center on the campus
of Queen's University in Kingston. Of particular interest to scholars
working in the eighteenth century is The British Pamphlets Collection,
housed in Special Collections at the Joseph S. Stauffer Library. The
library holds over a thousand pamphlets, as well as numerous rare books
including Mandeville's, The Fable of the Bees (2nd. edition, 1723),
and An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour (1st. edition, 1732). This
collection is one of the finest in Canada, and is a valuable resource for
scholars.
Participants include: M.M. Goldsmith, author of
Private Vices, Public Benefits: Bernard Mandeville's Social and
Political Thought (Cambridge, 1985); E.J. Hundert, The
Enlightenment's 'Fable': Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of
Society (Cambridge, 1994); and, Irwin Primer, editor Mandeville
Studies: New Explorations in the Art and Thought of Dr. Bernard
Mandeville (The Hague, 1975); Gordon Schochet, editor with J.G.A.
Pocock and Lois Schwoerer, The Varieties of British Political Thought,
1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1994).
For additional conference
information, please contact: The Mandeville Symposium, c/o C. W. A. Prior,
Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L
3N6. E-mail: 3cwp@qlink.queensu.ca
World Wide Web
Resources
Bulletin of the Hume Society
Archive: Four volumes of the Bulletin of the Hume Society,
Volumes 22-25, are archived on the World Wide Web. The URL is
http://www.oxy.edu/~traiger/hume/bullarchive.html.
The Pierre
Bayle Home Page: "In recent times, interest in Pierre Bayle's thought
and work has grown considerably. Scholars of various tendencies have
analyzed his multifarious activity from different points of view. And
Bayle's most famous work, the Dictionnaire historique et critique,
is not the only subject arousing interest. Equally important are his other
works, in that they may represent either a different standpoint from the
magnus opus, or a further development of ideas expressed in it. The aim of
this web page is to provide with detailed information all those who work
on Bayle or who want to know more about this nonconformist thinker of the
end of XVIIth century. The bibliography - updated monthly - covers only
books and articles entirely or partially devoted to Bayle." The Pierre
Bayle Home page is http://www.cisi.unito.it/progetti/bayle/pres.html.
Adam Smith E-texts: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
is now on the web. It can be found at
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/smith/moral.html.
The Wealth of Nations is located at http://www.arrowweb.com/philo/.
New Members
The following members
have joined or rejoined the Hume Society since March 24, 1996.
Adams, Thomas; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Angles,
Misericordia; Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Bell, Martin; Manchester Metropolitan College, Manchester,
United Kingdom
Bruhlmeier, Daniel; St. Gallen, ,
Switzerland
Carabelli, Giancarlo; Milano, Italy
Carroll, John W.; North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC
Cayley, Rachel; Brooklyn, New York
Christophe, Manceau; Paris, , France
Connolly,
William R.; University of Evansville, Evansville, IN
Corrigan, Patrick; Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Dauer, Francis W.; UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Davis, Bentley; Olivette, MO
DePierris, Graciela
T.; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Fradet, Herve;
Paris I. Pantheon. Sarbonne, France
Fuchs, Florian;
Weisgnburg, Germany
Geib, Scott A.; Santa Fe, NM
Gerwin, Martin E.; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Grimm, Stephen R.; New York, NY
Heinrich,
Elisabeth; Germany
Hume, Robert; Rochester, NY
Jeter, Marvin D.; University of Arkansas-Montice,
Montecello, AR
Kamooneh, Kaveh; Atlanta, GA
Klawikowski, Gregor; Koln, Germany
Krysztofiak,
Claudia; , Sankt Augustin, , Germany
Lessa, Renato; ,
Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil
Levine, Michael;
University of Western Australia Nedlands, Australia
Levy,
Solomon; Kansas City, MI
Lockwood Jr., Thornton C.;
Boston University, Boston, MA
London, Joshua; Sacramento,
CA
Luethe, Rudolf; Aachen, Germany
Maestrelli,
Emilia; New York, NY
Marrone, Louis; Guelph, Ontario, CANADA
Mathews, Jose; University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Menezes, Natala; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Morita, Tomoko; , Adachi-ku, Tokyo, 180, , Japan
Myers, Victoria; , Santa Monica, CA
Nafstad,
Petter; University of Tromso, N-9037 Tromso, Norway
Noll,
Aaron; Houghton College, Houghton, New York
O'Connor,
David; Seton Hall University, South Oragne, NJ
O'Shea,
Jim; University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Pajewski,
Alessandro; L'Aquila, , Italy
Povlich, Jamey John;
South Milwaukee, WI
Rosenzweig, Warren; Brooklyn, NY
Sainsbury, R.M.; King's College London, United Kingdom
Schmitter, Amy; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New
Mexico
Shelley, James R.; Augustana College, Rock Island,
IL
Stagoll, Clifford; University of Warwick, Coventry,
England
Tenenbaum, Sergio; University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM
Thompson, Dennis; Northampton, MA
Torell, Kurt; Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID
Turiano, Mark; Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Velasquez,
Eduardo A.; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Vink, Anthony; The Netherlands
Weller, Eric
J.; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Xiao,
Yang; Berkeley, CA
Zakatistovs, Atis; Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
Zanardi, Paola; University of Ferrara, Italy
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