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Ángela Calvo de Saavedra, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Ann Levey, University of Calgary
Juan S. Santos, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Saul Traiger, Occidental College
Hume on Aesthetics
Hume on the Essays
Hume on Imagination
Sympathy, Happiness and the Virtues
The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays
Author: Margaret Watkins, Saint Vincent College
Critics: Jacqueline Taylor, University of San Francisco
Andre Willis, Brown University
A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
Authors: Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia
Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College
Critics: Jimena Hurtado, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
Estrella Trincado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Hume’s Skepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic
Author: Peter Fosl, Transylvania University
Critics: José Raimundo Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond
Paul Guyer, Brown University
Catalina González, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
Amy Schmitter, University of Alberta
Imagination
Donald Ainslie, University of Toronto
Sofía Calvente, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Karánn Durland, Austin College
Sympathy, Happiness and the Virtues
Livia Guimaraes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Jane MacIntyre, Cleveland University
Anik Waldow, University of Sydney
Tuesday – July 6th
8:30 - 9:00 Opening Remarks. Jorge Humberto Peláez Piedrahita, S.J., Rector Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Luis Fernando Cardona Suárez, Dean of Faculty of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
9:00 - 10:15 Keynote Talk. Hume and Kant on Utility, Freedom, and Justice. Paul Guyer, Brown University. Chair: Don Garrett, New York University.
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Concurrent Session A: Hume’s Dual Aspectism. Tim Black, California State University, Northridge. Commentator: Benjamin Nelson, University of Connecticut. Chair: Daniel Jenkins, Montgomery College.
10:45 - 11:45 Concurrent Session B: Hume on Envy. Enrico Galvagni, University of St Andrews. Commentator: Willem Lemmens, University of Antwerp. Chair: Spartaco Pupo, Università della Calabria.
11:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Concurrent Session A: What Is Hume’s New Question? Lewis Powell, University at Buffalo, SUNY. Commentator: Lorne Falkenstein, University of Western Ontario. Chair: Karánn Durland, Austin College.
14:00 - 15:00 Concurrent Session B: Moral Defect and Aesthetic Deformity: Moralism in Hume’s “Standard of Taste”. Danielle Brown, University of Alberta. Commentator: Manuel Vásquez Villavicencio, Universitè du Québec á Montréal. Chair: Mark Spencer, Brock University.
15:00 - 17:00 Socializing event
Wednesday – July 7th
9:00 - 10:30 Book Panel: The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays by Margaret Watkins, Saint Vincent College. Critics: Jacqueline Taylor, University of San Francisco and Andre Willis, Brown University. Chair: Richard Dees, University of Rochester.
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session A: Hume’s Empiricist Metaphysics. Donald L.M. Baxter, University of Connecticut. Commentator: Jonny Cottrell, University of Edinburgh. Chair: Janet Levin, University of Southern California.
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session B: The General Point of View and Berkeleyan Perception of Distance. Katherine Dunlop, University of Texas, Austin. Commentator: Jason Fisette, University of Nevada, Reno. Chair: Ruth Weintraub, Tel Aviv University.
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Concurrent Session A: Did Hume Adopt a Labor Theory of Value? Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia. Commentator: Andy Sabl, University of Toronto. Chair: Graciela De Pierris, Stanford University.
15:30 - 16:30 Concurrent Session B: Hume’s Self-Diagnosis in his Letter to an Unnamed Physician. Gabriel Watts, Freie Universität Berlin. Commentator: James Harris, University of St Andrews. Chair: Nathan Sasser, University of South Carolina.
Thursday – July 8th
9:00 - 10:15 Keynote: Hume’s Ciceronian vs. Ramist Rhetoric. Catalina González, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. Chair: Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University.
10:15 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session A: Philo on ‘the Incomprehensible Nature of Supreme Being’ on Dialogues 2. Todd Ryan, Trinity College. Commentator: Stanley Tweyman, York University. Chair: Tito Magri, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’.
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session B: Why Hume’s Censure of the Monkish Virtues Isn’t Question Begging. Jennifer Welchman, University of Alberta and Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Commentator: Lorraine Besser, Middlebury College. Chair: Alison McIntyre, Wellesley College.
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Themed Panel: Sympathy, Happiness and the Virtues. Livia Guimaraes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Jane MacIntyre, Cleveland University and Anik Waldow, University of Sydney. Chair: Lorenzo Greco, Oxford University.
Friday – July 9th
9:00 - 10:30 Book Panel: Hume’s Skepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic by Peter Fosl, Transylvania University. Critics: José Raimundo Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond. Chair: Annemarie Butler, Iowa State University.
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session A: Cultural Embeddedness. Marissa Espinoza, Saint Louis University and Rico Vitz, Azuza Pacific University. Commentator: Katie Paxman, Brigham Young University. Chair: Maité Cruz, Union College.
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session B: Rough Heroes. Chris Williams, University of Nevada, Reno. Commentator: Tina Baceski, Rockhurst University. Chair: Angela Coventry, University of Portland.
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Concurrent Session A: Hume on Whether Perceptions Are Mental. Dario Perinetti, Universitè du Québec á Montréal. Commentator: Corliss Swain, St. Olaf College. Chair: David Landy, San Francisco State University.
15:30 - 16:30 Concurrent Session B: Two Epicureans on Happiness: How Hume Read Rousseau’s Julie. Ryu Susato, Keio University. Commentator: Abraham Anderson, Sarah Lawrence College & The American University in Cairo. Chair: Amy Schmitter, University of Alberta.
Saturday – July 10th
9:00 - 10:30 Themed Panel: Imagination. Donald Ainslie, University of Toronto, Sofía Calvente, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Karánn Durland, Austin College. Chair: Ángela Calvo, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session A: Rethinking the Common Point of View in Hume’s Treatise and Enquiry. James Chamberlain, University of Nottingham. Commentator: Pablo Aristizábal, Independent Scholar. Chair: Mikael M. Karlsson, University of Iceland & University of the Faroe Islands.
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session B: Hume’s Passion-Based Account of Agency. Taro Okamura, University of Alberta. Commentator: Karl Schafer, University of California, Irvine. Chair: Max Grober, Austin College.
12:00- 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Concurrent Session A: Hume’s Incredible Demonstrations. Graham Clay, University of Notre Dame. Commentator: Wade Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology. Chair: Michael Jacovides, Purdue University.
14:00 - 15:00 Concurrent Session B: The Chief Business of the True Judges in Hume’s Aesthetics. Byoungjae Kim, Durham University. Commentator: Marta de la Vega, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Bogotá. Chair: Yumiko Inuaki, University of Massachussets, Boston.
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Concurrent Session A: How the Mind Spreads itself onto the World: An Interpretation. Miren Boehm, University of Wisconsin. Commentator: Elena Gordon, University of Sydney. Chair: Dominic Dimech, University of Sydney.
15:30 - 16:30 Concurrent Session B: Personal Identity Regarding the Passions in the Treatise. Haruko Inoue, Sapporo University. Commentator: Jane McIntyre, Cleveland University. Chair: Elizabeth Radcliffe, William and Mary.
Sunday – July 11th
9:00 - 10:30 Book Panel: A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism by Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia and Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College. Critics: Jimena Hurtado, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá and Estrella Trincado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Chair: Juan S. Santos, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Concurrent Session A: Hume’s Combinatorial Modal Theory. Ariel Melamedoff, New York University. Commentator: Liz Goodnick, Metropolitan State University of Denver. Chair: Nir Ben-Moshe, University of Illinois.
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:15 Keynote Talk: A Taste for Friends: Happiness, Virtue and the Aesthetics of Friendship in Hume. Amy Schmitter, University of Alberta. Chair: Tina Baceski, Rockhurst University.
15:30: Closing Concert
There is no registration fee. Given that this year the conference is fully remote (virtual), conference organizers and the Executive Committee agreed to waive any registration charges. We only ask that any person interested in attending fill out the registration form.
We are going to use Universidad Javeriana paid Zoom platform for all sessions, break-out rooms and social events.
In the schedule (Schedule tap, not Program button), every session has a Link to session. Click on it to go to each session, including break-out rooms and social events. Zoom will ask you for a password, which we will provide to you after registration. It will be the same password for all sessions, break-out rooms and social events.
There is no way to replace the actual experience of visiting Bogotá or the rest of Colombia, for that matter. We encourage all Hume Society members to visit us once the pandemic is over. However, to prepare you for all the fun you are going to have and give you small sample of Colombia, we have selected a few videos, where you’ll learn a bit about Colombia’s music, food, places and more. Please visit the “Videos” section at the conference site.
This year’s Hume Society Conference has been one of the most challenging to organize in recent history. We are happy to know that many of you enjoyed it. We thank all participants from all corners of the world. Without your support and enthusiastic participation this conference would not have been possible.
Besides the invaluable technical and financial support from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and from the Hume Society, we would like to thank particularly to:
Our team of students who helped as technical assistants throughout the Conference:
- Montserrat Bueno
- María José Campos
- Isabella Cartagena
- Daniel Castro
- Nicolás Díaz
- Juan José Jiménez
- Natalia Parra
- Germán Sarmiento
- David Silva
- Juliana Zuluaga
A special acknowledgement goes to Shadday Triana for his tireless work preparing and supporting the Conference website and the Conference sessions.
We also would like to thank our referees whose work made possible that we enjoyed an excellent selection of papers:
- Katie Paxman
- Dan O’Brien
- David Owen
- Elizabeth Radcliffe
- Dennis Rasmussen
- Abe Roth
- Paul Russell
- Patrick Rysiew
- Andrew Sabl
- Tatsuya Sakamoto
- Geoffrey Sayre McCord
- Karl Schafer
- Nancy Schauber
- Eric Schleisser
- Amy Schmitter
- Lisa Shapiro
- Mark Spencer
- Corliss Swain
- Jacqueline Taylor
- Peter Thielke
- Anik Waldow
- Andrew Ward
- Margaret Watkins
- Carl Wennerlind
- Cass Weller
- Andre Willis
- Catherine Wilson
- Ken Winkler
- John Wright
- Naomi Yajima
- Kate Abramson
- Don Ainslie
- Lili Alanen
- Margaret Atherton
- Tina Baceski
- Helen Beebee
- Lorraine Besser
- Henrik Bohlin
- Sophie Botros
- Nathan Brett
- Annemarie Butler
- Rachel Cohon
- Dorothy Coleman
- Mark Collier
- Rebecca Copenhaver
- Jonny Cottrell
- Angela Coventry
- Eva Dadlez
- Remy Debes
- Richard Dees
- Graciela De Pierris
- Karann Durland
- Lorne Falkenstein
- Jason Fisette
- Peter Fosl
- Erin Frykholm
- Don Garrett
- Axel Gelfert
- Elizabeth Goodnick
- Geoff Gorham
- Lorenzo Greco
- Robert Gressis
- Knud Haakonssen
- Jani Hakkarainen
- Marc Hanvelt
- James Harris
- Kenneth Henley
- Jennifer Herdt
- Marc Hight
- Jared Holley
- Yumiko Inukai
- Mike Karlsson
- Emily Kelahan
- Catherine Kemp
- Daniel Kervick
- Anders Kraal
- Esther Kroeker
- David Landy
- Eugenio Lecaldano
- Willem Lemmens
- Lisa Levers
- Andrew Lister
- Jennifer Marusic
- Vijay Mascarenhas
- Erik Matson
- Neil McArthur
- Alison McIntyre
- Jane McIntyre
- Kevin Meeker
- Amyas Merrivale
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