The conference begins Tuesday 6 July at 2:15 pm and ends Saturday 10 July at 5:45 pm followed by the conference banquet. The registration desk at the City Campus, Prinsstraat 13 will open on Tuesday 6 July at 10.00 AM. A map of the City Campus is to be found on the conference website under 'Location'.
TUESDAY,
JULY 6
2:15 PM Opening
Remarks
2:30-4:00 PLENARY
SESSION 1
Herman De Dijn
(Leuven): “Spinoza and Hume on
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”
Chair: Wim Lemmens (Antwerp)
4:15-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:45 PARALLEL
SESSION 1
Wade
Robison (RIT): "Hume the Moral Historian: Queen Elizabeth I"
Commentator: Spyridon Tegos (Crete)
Chair:
Petra Van Brabandt (Antwerp)
Tony
Pitson (Stirling): "Hume and the Transparency of Perceptions"
Commentator: Saul Traiger (Occidental)
Chair:
Livia de Guimaraes (Minas Gerais)
5:45-7:00 RECEPTION
WEDNESDAY,
JULY 7
9:00-10:15 PARALLEL
SESSION 2
Cressida
Gaukroger (CUNY): "Unifying Taste: Public Approval and Character Traits in
Hume's ‘Standard of Taste’"
Commentator: James Mock (Central Oklahoma)
Chair: Marjolein Oele (San Francisco)
Kevin Meeker and
Ted Poston (South Alabama): "There's No Place Like Home: Hume, Williamson,
and the Extent of Cognitive Homelessness"
Commentator: Jane Friedman (Oxford)
Chair: Don Baxter (Connecticut)
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:15 PLENARY
SESSION 2
Panel discussion
on Hume and Feminism: Livia de
Guimaraes (Minas Gerais), Anne Jaap Jacobson (Houston), and Amy Schmitter (Alberta)
Chair: Asa Carlson (Stockholm)
12:15-1:45 LUNCH
1:45-3:00 PARALLEL
SESSION 3
Dan O’Brien
(Oxford Brookes): "Sympathy and Authority: Hume's Two Accounts of
Testimony"
Commentator: Angela
Calvo de Saavedra (Javeriana)
Chair: Henrik
Bohlin (Södertörns)
Jani Hakkarainen
(Tampere): "Hume on the Existence of Complex Perceptions"
Commentator: Corliss Swain (St. Olaf)
Chair: Dario Perinetti (UQAM)
Jennifer
Welchman (Alberta): "Could Hume be a Social Progressive's Moral
Theorist?"
Commentator: Andrew Sabl (UCLA)
Chair: Gerard Kuperus (San Francisco)
3:00-3:15 Coffee
3:15-4:30 PARALLEL
SESSIONS 4
Remy
Debes (Memphis): "The Peculiar Sentiment"
Commentator: Alison McIntyre (Wellesley)
Chair: Rico Vitz (North Florida)
Karl Schafer
(Pittsburgh): "Hume's Passionate, but not Necessarily Moral,
Epistemology"
Commentator: Heiner Klemme (Mainz)
Chair: Don Garrett (NYU)
5:15-8:00 ANTWERP
TOURISM (short walk to the cathedral for an exclusive visit and short organ recital,
afterwards reception at the city hall)
THURSDAY,
JULY 8
9:00-10:45 AUTHORS
MEET CRITICS SESSIONS
Donald
Baxter’s
Hume’s Difficulty: Time and
Identity in the
Treatise
Lilli
Alanen (Uppsala), Donald Baxter (Connecticut), Eric Schliesser (Ghent)
Chair: Donald Ainslie (Toronto)
Thomas
Holden’s
Spectres of False Divinity: Hume’s Moral Atheism
James Harris
(St. Andrew’s), Thomas Holden (U California, Santa Barbara), Martin Bell (York)
Chair: Jackie Taylor (San Francisco)
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:15 PARALLEL
SESSION 5
Max Grober
(Austin): “Concepts of God in Hume’s Essay ‘Of Suicide’”
Commentator:
Mark Spencer (Brock)
Chair: Jane McIntyre (Cleveland)
Abraham Anderson
(Sarah Lawrence): "Hume on the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the
Enquiry
"
Commentator: Graciela de Pierris (Stanford)
Chair: Wade Robison (RIT)
12:15-1:45 LUNCH
1:45-3:00 PARALLEL
SESSION 6
Amyas Merivale (Leeds):
"Hume’s Mature Account of the Indirect Passions"
Commentator: Jane McIntyre (Cleveland)
Chair: Esther Kroeker (Leuven)
Dan Kervick
(Independent): "Force, Vivacity and Reflective Consciousness in Hume’s
Treatise
of Human Nature
"
Commentator: Yumiko Inukai (U Massachusetts, Boston)
Chair: Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere)
3:00-3:15 Coffee
3:15-5:00 PLENARY
SESSION 3
Jesse
Prinz (CUNY): "Does Cognitive Science Support Hume's Treatise?"
Chair: Donald Ainslie (Toronto)
5:00-6:00 ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING
FRIDAY,
JULY 9
9:00-10:45 PLENARY
SESSION 4
Christine
Swanton (Auckland): “Moral
Truth: Hume Meets Heidegger”
Chair: Jackie Taylor (San Francisco)
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:15 PARALLEL
SESSION 7
Ann
Levey (Calgary): “Humean Families”
Commentator: Petra Van Brabandt (Antwerp)
Chair: Amy Schmitter (Alberta)
Karann Durland
(Austin): "Extreme Skepticism and the Multiple Humes Problem"
Commentator: Don Garrett (NYU)
Chair: Lilli Alanen (Uppsala)
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
1:15- EXCURSION
TO BRUGES
SATURDAY,
JULY 10
9:00-10:15 PARALLEL
SESSION 8
Lorraine
Besser-Jones (Middlebury): "Hume on the Enjoyment of Character"
Commentator: Bob Mahoney (Independent)
Chair:
Katie Paxman (Antwerp)
Dario Perinetti (UQAM): “Hume’s Sceptical Solutions”
Commentator: Peter
Millican (Oxford)
Chair: Falk Wunderlich (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
Mikko
Tolonen (Helsinki): "Hume's Case for Monarchy"
Commentator: Adam Potkay (William and Mary)
Chair:
Enrique Bocardo (Seville)
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:45 PARALLEL
SESSION 9
Kenneth Sheppard
(Johns Hopkins): "The ‘Triumph
of Truth’: Beattie and Hume in the History of Atheism"
Commentator: David Raynor (Ottawa)
Chair: Mikko
Tolonen (Helsinki)
Jose Tasset
(Coruna): "Hume on Religion: A Radical View"
Commentator: Walter Van Herck (Antwerp)
Chair: Angela
Calvo de Saavedra (Javeriana)
11:45-1:15 LUNCH
1:15-2:30 PARALLEL
SESSION 10
Claudia
Schmidt (Marquette): "Hume and Smith on Language"
Commentator: Jason Rosensweig (Chicago)
Chair: Eric Schliesser (Ghent)
Eva Dadlez
(Central Oklahoma): "Eighteenth Century British Philosophy on
Tragedy"
Commentator: Katy Abramson (Indiana)
Chair: Anik Waldow (Sydney)
2:30-3:45 PARALLEL
SESSION 11
Peter
Loptson (Guelph): "Hume and Ancient Philosophy"
Commentator: Antonia Lolordo (Virginia)
Chair:
Karl Schafer (Pittsburgh)
Anik
Waldow (Sydney): "Sympathy
and the Mechanics of Character Change"
Commentator: Lorenzo Greco (Rome)
Chair:
Philippe Saltel (Grenoble)
4:00-5:45 PLENARY
SESSION 5
Elizabeth
Radcliffe (William and Mary): "Hume and Reasons from the Humean
Perspective"
Chair: Angela Coventry (Portland State)
EVENING BANQUET