Program & Papers

Monday, July 17

• 8:30am - 5:00pm - All Day: Registration
• 12-1:30pm: THEME PANEL: Hume and Berkeley (IBES 130)
  Lorne Falkenstein (Western University)
  Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers University)
  Becko Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark)
• 1:30-2pm: Coffee Break
• 2-3:00pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  1) Philip Reed (Canisius College), "Hume on the Rarity of Virtue"
      Commentator: Lorraine Besser - Jones (Middlebury College)
      Chair: Robert Miner (Baylor University)
  2) M. Skjonsberg (London School of Economics and Political Science),
       "Party Systems of Thought"
       Commentator: Marc Hanvelt (Carleton University)
       Chair: Esha Senchaudhuri (American Academy of Arts & Sciences)
• 3-3:30pm: Coffee Break
• 3:30-4:30pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  3) Wilson Underkuffler (University of South Florida), "Doctrine of Infinite
   Divisibility"
  Commentator: Stephanie Rocknack (Hartwick College)
  Chair: Eric v.d. Luft (Gegensatz Press)
  4) Katharina Paxman 9Brigham Young University) and Kristen Blair (student),
   "Minds of Women"
  Commentator: Julie Walsh
  Chair: Richard Fry (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
• 4:30-5pm: Coffee Break
• 5-6:30pm: PLENARY LECTURE: Ken Winkler  (Yale University) (IBES 130)
  Title: TBD
• 6:30-8pm:  Opening Reception
  Brown Faculty Club, 1 Magee Street

Tuesday, July 18

• 9-10am:  PARALLEL SESSIONS
  5) Pedro Faria (Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG), "Moral
       Differences, Language, and Context"
      Commentator: Miriam McCormick (University of Richmond)
      Chair: Max Hayward (Columbia University/Bowling Green State
       University)
  6) Jonathan Cottrell (Wayne State University), "Copying,
        Representation, Sympathy: A Puzzle"
       Commentator: David Landy (Sam Francisco State University)
        Chair: TBD
• 10-10:30am Coffee Break
• 10:30-11:30am: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  7) Lilli Alanen (University of Uppsala, Sweden), "Sympathy"
      Commentator: Alexis Glenn (Brown University)
      Chair: Anik Waldow 
  8) Kelly Martin (Tulane University), "Dialogue with a Skeptic:
              Hume's Fourth Essay on Happiness"
              Commentator: Abraham Anderson (Sarah Lawrence College)
              Chair: Dario Perinetti (Universite do Quebec a Montreal)
• 11:30am-1:30pm: LUNCH (on your own)
• 1:30-2:30pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  9) Tom Holden (University of California, Santa Barbara),
             "Philo's Divine Attributes"
              Commentator: Emily Kelahan (Illinois Wesleyan University)
              Chair: James Harris (University of St. Andrews)
  10) Juan Samuels Santos Castro (Pontifica Universidad Javeriana),
       "Pleasure and Action in Moral Psychology: A Genetic Account"
        Commentator: Spiros Tegos (University of Crete)
        Chair: David Haack (The New School for Social Research)
• 2:30-3pm: Coffee Break 
• 3-4pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  11) Anthony Edwin Pitson (University of Stirling), "Humanity and the
       Foundation of Morals"
      Commentator: Jennifer Welchmann (University of Alberta)
       Chair: Rafael Fernandes (State University of Campinas -UNICAMP)
  12) M. Tleugabulova, "Inseparability of Perception of Succession"  
         Commentator: Annemarie Butler (Iowa State University)
          Chair: Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto)
• 4-4:30pm: Coffee Break
• 4:30-6pm: PARALLEL BOOK PANELS
  BOOK PANEL 1: James Harris, Hume: An Intellectural Biography
       CRITICS: James Moore (Concordia University)
                          Dario Perinetti (University of Quebec)
  BOOK PANEL 2: Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto),
               Hume's True Scepticism
               CRITICS:  Anik Waldow (University of Sydney) 
                                   Hseuh Qu (University of Singapore)

Wednesday, July 19

Excursion to Whitehall
Transportation and bag lunch included in Excusion fee.

Thursday, July 20

• 9-10am: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  13) Lewis Powell (University at Buffalo, SUNY), "Reistic Theory of
          Belief"
          Commentator: Liz Goodnick (Metropolitan State University of
          Denver)
          Chair: Peter Fosl (Transylvania University)
  14) Krista Rodkey (Valparaiso Univeristy, "History: Origins, Artifice and
          Historical Imagingation"
         Commentator: Lorne Falkenstein (Western University)
         Chair: Mikko Tolonen (Univesity of Helsinki)
• 10-10:30: Coffee Break 
• 10:30-11:30am: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  15) Mark Spencer (Brock University), "Was Hume a Plagiarist?: A
         Submission from his History of England."
        Commentator: Andrew Sabl (Yale University)
         Chair: Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University)
   16) Nathan Sasser, "Practical Response to Skepticism." 
          Commentator: Corliss Swain (St. Olaf College)
          Chair: Hsueh Qu (National University of Singapore)
• 11:30am-1:30pm: Lunch (on own)
  (Mentoring Session 12-1pm)
• 1:30-2:30pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  17) Rachel Cohon (University at Albany, SUNY), "Disapproval and
         Resentment: Two Aspects of the Moral Sentiments in Hume and
         Adam Smith"
        Commentator: Lauren Kopajtic
         Chair: Angela Calvo de Saavedra
  18) Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio (University du Quebec a Montreal),
         "Curiosity and the origin of the sceptical crisis in Treatise 1.4.7"
         Commentator: Don Garrett (New York University)
         Chair: Lisa Levers (Georgetown University)
• 2:30-3pm: Coffee Break 
• 3-4pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  19) Don Baxter (University of Connecticut), "Bradley, Hume and Identity in Difference"
                Commentator: Michael Della Rocca (Yale University)
                Chair: TBD
  20) Dobin Choi (Towson University), "No Dilemma of Taste: Hume's
          Natural Standard of Taste"
         Commentator: Tina Baceski (Rockhurst University)
         Chair: Max Grober (Austin College)
• 4-4:30pm: Coffee Break 
• 4:30-6pm: Plenary Lecture: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
  Title: TBD

Friday, July 21

• 9-10am: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  21) Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere, Finland) and Professor
          Todd Ryan (Trinity College), "Hume on Possible Duration without
          Possible Parts," and Todd Ryan (Trinity College) and Jani
          Hakkarainen (University of Tampere, Finland), "Hume on Time and
          Steadfast Unchanging Objects"
          Commentator: Elena Gordon (University of Sydney)/Richard Fry
          (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
           Chair: TBD
  22) Dominic Dimech (University of Sydney), "Relative Ideas and the
           Veil of Perception"
           Commentator: Miren Boehm (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
           Chair: TBD
• 10-10:30am: Coffee Break 
• 10:30-11:30am: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  23) Margaret Watkins (Saint Vincent College), "Hume's Supersitious
          Heterosexism"
         Commentator: Jeff Ramsey (Smith College)
          Chair: TBD
  24) Benjamin Nelson (University of Connecticut), "Presuppositions and
          Diminishing Assurance in Hume's 'Of scepticism with regard to
          reason'"
         Commentator: Saul Traiger (Occidental College)
          Chair: TBD
• 11:30am-1:30pm: Lunch (on own)
• 1:30-2:30pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  25) Wade Robinson (Rochester Institute of Technology), "Skepticism
          and Causal Relations"
          Commentator: Tim Black (California State University Northridge)
          Chair: Karann Durland (Austin College)
   26) Getty Lustlia (Boston University, Department of Philosophy),
          "'The Sovereigns of the Empire of Conversation': Hume on Women"
         Commentator: Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)
          Chair: TBD
• 2:30-3pm: Coffee Break
• 3:30-4:30pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS
  27) Erin Frykholm, (University of Kansas) "Hume (and Butler) against
          UniversalBenevolence"
          Commentator: Alison McIntyre (Wellesley College)
          Chair: Aino Lahdenrata (University of Jyvaskyla)
  
  28) Dan Kervick (Independent Scholar), "Fear and the Sensation of
          Fear in Hume's Treatise"
         Commentator: Mark Collier (University of Minnesota, Morris)
          Chair: TBD
• 5-8pm: CLOSING DINNER: CLAMBAKE