Conference Program

A document containing all papers can be downloaded here:
Proceedings of the 42nd Hume Society Conference 2015 (4811 Kb).

Plenary sessions and panels will be held in lecture hall D8, parallel sessions in rooms E306 and E319, Södra Husen building, Frescati, Stockholm University Campus.

	MONDAY 20 JULY
From 11:00	Registration
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13:30 - 15:00	Plenary session I "Hume's intellectual biography: a new approach" James Harris (St. Andrews) Chair: R. Callergård
15:05 - 16:20	Parallel session I E306: "Hume's fiction of Adam's knowledge: a historical approach", J-P Grima-Morales Commentator: M. Boehm Chair: Gaukroger E319: "Hume on Love and Morality", E. Kroeker Commentator: A. McIntyre Chair: L. Besser
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16:40 - 17:55	Parallel session II E306: "Did Kant Address Hume on Induction?", K. Busch Commentator: P. Thielke Chair: T. Demeter E319: "The Indefinability of Pride", G. Watts Commentator: H. Qu Chair: Å. Carlson E3xx: "Hume on Sympathy and Agreeable Qualities", P. Reed Commentator: E. Frykholm Chair: K. Axelsson
19:00	Reception at Stockholm City Hall, by invitation from the city of Stockholm
	TUESDAY 21 JULY
9:00 - 10:30	Plenary session II TBA Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann (Uppsala) Chair:Å. Carlson
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10:50 - 12:55	Parallel session III E306: "The Artificial Virtues of Thought: Normativity and Cognition in Hume", K. Schafer Commentator: A. Waldow Chair: G. Sayre-McCord E319: "Hume on the Stoic Rational Passions and 'Original Existences'", J. Fisette Commentator: L. Greco Chair: T. Kunca
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13:30 - 14:45	Parallel session IV E306: "Hume at La Flèche: Scepticism and the French Connection", D. Perinetti Commentator: M. Spencer Chair: L. Shapiro E319: "Humean Constructivism and the Common Core, D. Dorsey Commentator: W. Robison Chair: J. Olson
14:50 - 16:05	Parallel session V E306: "Descartes and Hume on Duration", D. Baxter Commentator: A. Butler Chair: M. Cruz Tleugabulova E319: "Conventions and Factions in Hume's Political Philosophy", N. Mori Commentator: R. Miner Chair: M. De Seta
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16:25 - 18:25	Theme panel I "Hume's Fictions and Fictionalism" "Imaginative Vivacity" Amy Kind (Claremont) "Mistakes and Fictions" Saul Traiger (Occidental) Commentator: Fabian Dorsch (Fribourg) Chair: L. Shapiro
	WEDNESDAY 22 JULY
9:00 - 11:30	Author meets critic Hume and Mandeville: Anatomists of Civil Society, Mikko Tolonen (Helsinki) Critics: A. Garrett, D. Raynor Chair:H. Bohlin
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12:30	Excursion from Stadshuskajen to Drottningholm Palace
	THURSDAY 23 JULY
9:00 - 10:15	Parallel session VI E306: "The Status of Mechanism in Hume's Account of Causal Power", A. Kuklok Commentator: M. Slavov Chair: M. Grober E319: "Centaur Affections: the Connection Between the Indirect and the Direct Passions in Hume's Treatise", H. Inoue Commentator: J. Taylor Chair: A. Schmitter
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10:35 - 11:50	Parallel session VII E306: "Hume on the Unity of Spatial Composites", J. Hakkarainen Commentator: D. Garrett Chair: D. Kervick E319: "Moralizing a Social Practice: The Obligation to Fulfill a Promise in Hume's Treatise", R. Cohon Commentator: J. Corvino Chair: A. Kauppinen
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13:30 - 14:45	Parallel session VIII E306: "What Makes a Character Trait an Epistemic Virtue?", E. Kelahan Commentator: D. Simkovic Chair: G. Todd E319: "Machiavelli's 'Extremely Defective' Reasonings: Hume on Opinion, History, and Monarchy", M. Hanvelt Commentator: J. Wei Chair: J. Harris
14:50 - 16:05	Parallel session IX E306: "Analogies in Natural Philosophy, Natural Theology, and Hume's 'Of a Particular Providence'", K. Durland Commentator: E. Schliesser Chair: J. Kivela E319: "Temperament and Temperature", M. Watkins Commentator: W. Lemmens Chair: P. Van Brabandt
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16:25 - 18:25	Theme panel II "Character and Self in Hume's Practical Philosophy" "The Evaluation of Character in the 'Conclusion' to Book 1 of Hume’s Treatise" Donald Ainslie (Toronto) "The Self as Social Agent" Lorraine Besser-Jones (Middlebury) TBA Jane McIntyre (Cleveland) Moderator: Lilli Alanen (Uppsala)
	FRIDAY 24 JULY
9:00 - 10:15	Parallel session X E306: "The Role of the Natural History of Religion in Hume's Critique of Religious Belief", L. Goodnick Commentator: A. Willis Chair: A. Coventry E319: "Hume on Personal Merit: Making Sense of EPM Appendix 4", R. Debes Commentator: A. Vaccari Chair: F. Svensson
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10:35 - 11:50	Parallel session XI E306: "Hume's Hermeneutic Fictionalism about Objects (and Selves)", R. Fry Commentator: A. Willis J. Cottrell Chair: J. Retornaz E319: "Without Gallantry and Without Jealousy: The Development of Hume's Account of Sexual Virtues and Vices", L. Falkenstein Commentator: A. Schmitter Chair: E. Kaila
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13:30 - 15:00	Plenary session III Love of Humanity in Shaftesbury's Moralists and Hume's Treatise Michael Gill (Arizona) Chair: J. Olson
15:15 - 16:15	Hume Society Business meeting
18:00	Pre-drink at Mosebacke (if weather allows)
19:30	Conference banquet at Djurgården