Plenary Session CBC A-112

Hume and Mental Content

Hume, Imagination, and Content: A Memorandum, Tito Magri, Università di Roma - la Sapienza;
Hume's Theory of Mental Representation, Don Garrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;
Hume and Reid on the Nature of Consciousness, Lorne Falkenstein, University of Western Ontario;
Chair: Saul Traiger, Occidental College

Concurrent Session # 1, CBC C-124

A new look at Hume’s theory of probabilistic inference

Mark Collier, Stanford University

Commentator: Lon Becker, Colgate University,
Chair: Anne Jaap Jacobson, University of Houston

Concurrent Session #2, CBC C-133

Hume, Kant, and Hegel on the Use of Teleological Principles in Historical Narrative

Claudia Schmidt, Marquette University

Commentator: Ira Singer, Hofstra University, Comments;
Chair, Greg Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Concurrent Session # 3, CBC C-124
 

Hume’s Skeptical Naturalism

Peter Fosl, Transylvania University

Commentator: Ken Richman, Bryn Mawr College
Chair: Julia Annas, University of Arizona

Concurrent Session #4, CBC C-133

Searching for Objective Social Foundations: David Hume’s Analysis of the Origin of Law and Government

Dmitri Kuryshkin, Moscow State University

Commentator: Mark Yellin, Liberty Fund
Chair: Ryu Susato, Kansai University

Concurrent Session #5, CBC C-124

Hume’s Remedy for Instrumentalism

Gerald Lang, Oxford University

Commentator:Don Fawkes, Comments;
Chair: Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Concurrent Session #6, CBC C-133

Intelligibility and Error in Hume’s Theory of the Understanding

Arthur L. Morton, University of Cincinnati

Commentator: Tom Kiefer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Comments;
Chair: John Dreher, University of Southern California

Plenary Session, CBC A-112

Hume as a Social Scientist
 

Tatsuya Sakamoto, Keio University
Chair: Francis Dauer, University of California, Santa Barbara
 

Concurrent Session #7, CBC C-124

Sentimentalism and the General Point of View in Hume’s Moral Theory

Elisa Hurley, Georgetown University

Commentator: Chrisoula Andreou, University of Utah; Comments;
Chair: Peggy Vandenberg, Grand Valley State College

Concurrent Session #8, CBC C-133

Hume, Miracles, and Probabilities:
Meeting Earman’s Challenge

Peter Millican, University of Leeds

Commentator: Wm. Starr, Marquette University, Comments;
Chair: Don Garrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Concurrent Session #9, CBC C-124

Prior Fictions
 

Saul Traiger, Occidental College

Commentator: John Biro, University of Florida, Comments;
Chair: Mikael Karlsson, University of Iceland

Concurrent Session #10, CBC C-133
 

The necessity of necessity: The Significance for Hume of the Idea of Necessary Connection

Abraham S. Roth,  University of Illinois, Chicago

Commentator: Corliss Swain, St. Olaf College
Chair: David Owen, University of Arizona

Plenary Session, CBC A-112

Topic Panel #1: Imagination in Hobbes and Hume

Imagination in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Hume, Juhana Lemetti, University of Helsinki;
Imagination in Hobbes and Hume, Jani Hakkarainen, University of Tampere;
Imagination: Hobbes and Hume, Martin Bertman, (University of Helsinki)
Chair: Lorne Falkenstein, University of Western Ontario

Concurrent Session #11, CBC C-229

Hume’s Theory of Motivation
and Principles of Causal Reasoning

Jussi Suikkanen, University of Helsinki

Commentator: Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia, Comments;
Chair: Wm. Starr, Marquette University

Concurrent Session #12, CBC C-230

Coherence and the Loose Idea:
Mental Impulse in Hume’s Theory of the External World

Brandon Watson, University of Toronto

Commentator: Catherine Kemp (Pennsylvania State University);
Chair: Claudia Schmidt, Marquette University

Plenary Session, CBC A-106

Topic Panel #2: Hume’s Denunciation of the Monkish Virtues

Jim King, Northern Illinois State University, Hume's Denunciation of the Monkish Virtues;
Will Davie, University of Oregon, Revisiting Monkish Virtues;
Commentator: Dallas Willard, University of Southern California, Comments;
Chair: Juhana Lemetti, University of Helsinki

Concurrent Session #13, CBC C-229

The Development of Hume’s Thought on Luxury

Andrew Cunningham, Boston University

Commentator: Paul Hurley, Pomona College, Comments;
Chair: Catherine Kemp (Pennsylvania State University)

Concurrent Session #14, CBC C-230

Hume’s Principles of World Construction

Jean-Pierre Schachter, Huron University College

Commentator: Tim Black, California,  State University, Northridge, Comments;
Chair: Darin McGinnis, Loyola-Chicago

Concurrent Session #15, CBC C-229

Are Ethical Propositions Statistical? C.D. Broad’s Critique - and Defense - of Hume’s Subjective Theory of Moral Judgments

Joseph Filonowicz, Long Island
University/Brooklyn Campus.

Commentator: John Dreher, University of Southern California, Comments
Chair: Andrew Cunningham, Boston University

Concurrent Session #16, CBC C-230

Hume’s Theories of Belief

Bethany Hoffman, Harvard University

Commentator: Stanley Tweyman, York University, Glendon College, Comments;
Chair: Stephen Nelson, Arizona State University

Plenary Session, CBC A-106

Classic Hume Studies Reconsidered:  Chas. Hendel’s Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume

Chair: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Frits van Holthoon, Groningen University, Charles Hendel’s Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume (1925);
Craig Walton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Comments on Charles W. Hendel’s Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume (1925; 1962); 
Peter Loptson, University of Guelph, Charles W. Hendel and Hume: A Review and Reconsideration

Concurrent Session # 17, CBC C-124

Why Hume’s Animal Argument Fails

Ramsey McNabb, York University

Commentator: Tony Pitson, University of Stirling, Comments;
Chair: Will Davie, University of Oregon

Concurrent Session #18, CBC C-133
 

Hume and Representation:
Understanding Duration and Abstraction

Anne Jaap Jacobson, University of Houston

Commentator: Patricia Easton, Claremont Graduate School, Comments;
Chair: Rene Calandria, University of Santo Tomas

Plenary Session, CBC A-112

Topic Panel #3: Hume on Motivation

Why Hume Thinks Reason is Not a Motive to the Will, Rachel Cohon, SUNY Albany; 
Mikael Karlsson, University of Iceland;
Chair: Chrisoula Andreou, University of Utah

Concurrent Session # 19, CBC C-124

Hume on Certainty, Knowledge, and Probability: Anticipating the Disintegration of the Analytic/Synthetic Divide?

Kevin Meeker, University of South Alabama

David Owen, University of Arizona; Comments;
Chair: Dave Beisecker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Concurrent Session #20, CBC C-133

The Criterion of Identity and the Principium Individuationis

Don Baxter, University of Connecticut

Commentator: Janet Levin, University of Southern California, Comments;
Chair: Saul Traiger, Occidental College

Plenary Session, CBC A-112

Classic Hume Studies Reconsidered: H. H. Price’s Hume’s Theory of the External World

Rick Fumerton, University of Iowa, Hume on our Idea of External Objects: Hylas’s Alternative;
Peter Thielke, Pomona College, The Price of Gap-Indifference: Hume, Kant, and Objective Successions;
Fred Wilson, University of Toronto, Price’s “Hume’s Theory of the External World”: An Appreciation;
Chair: Phil Cummins, University of Iowa; 

Plenary Session, CBC A-112

Topic Panel #4: Hume on Moral Judgments

Charlotte Brown, Illinois Wesleyan University, Hume on the Will and Deliberate Action; Kate Abramson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Donald Ainslie, University of Toronto

Plenary Session, CBC A-112

Hume on Luck and Moral Inclusion

Jacqueline Taylor, Brandeis University

Chair: Mary Mothersill, Barnard College