Monday 14 July

13:00 – 13:15             Introductory Remarks

                                   Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio, McMaster University

13:15 – 14:45             Plenary I:

                                   Miriam Schleifer McCormick, University of Richmond

14:45 – 15:15             Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:30             Parallel Session I:

• Hongbin Zhao, National University of Singapore, “Language and Determination in Hume’s Demonstrative Inference”
  • Comments by Lewis Powell, University at Buffalo, State University of  New York
• Luca Quinto, University of Pavia, “Hume on Wisdom: An Umbrella Concept between Sapientia and Prudentia”
  • Comments by Juan Samuel Santos Castro, Ponitificia Universidad Javeriana

17:00 – 19:00             Reception

Tuesday 15 July

9:00 – 10:15               Parallel Session II:

• Ariel Melamedoff, McGill University, “Mary Shepherd’s Objection to Hume’s Fork”
  • Comments by Maité Cruz, Union College
• Enrico Galvagni, University of Edinburgh, “Hume and Midgley: Human Nature, Sentiment, and Morality”
  • Comments by Jenny Welchman, University of Alberta

10:15 – 10:45             Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15             Panel: Hume and Feminism

• Lauren Kopajtic, Fordham University
• Getty Lustila, Northeastern University
• Jacqueline Taylor, University of San Francisco

12:15 – 13:30             Lunch

13:30 – 14:45             Parallel Session III

• Katherine Dunlop, University of Texas Austin, “A. J. Ayer on the Common-Sense Theory of the Physical World
  • Comments by Daniel Goldstick, University of Toronto
• Pamela Ahern, University of Delaware, “The Marian Controversy and Hume’s Use of Original Sources”
  • Comments by Marc Hanvelt, Carleton University

14:45-15:15                Coffee Break 

15:15 – 17:00             Book Panel: Lorne Falkenstein’s Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume’s Thought

• Donald Baxter, University of Connecticut
• Bridger Ehli, Indiana University
• Lorne Falkenstein, Western University
• Ruth Weintraub, Tel Aviv University

Wednesday 16 July

9:00 – 10:15               Parallel Session IV:

• Charles Goldhaber, University of Florida, “Mechanisms for Hume’s Skepticism: Doxastic and Emotional”
  • Comments by Nathan Sasser, Greenville Technical College

• Lorraine Besser, Middlebury College, “Learning from the Stoic Sage:  The Influence of Stoicism on Hume’s Moral Ideal
  • Comments by Jason Fisette, University of Nevada, Reno

10:15 – 10:45             Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15             Plenary II

                                   Peter Millican, Hertford College, Oxford University

12:15 – 13:15             Lunch 

13:15- 17:00               Excursion

Thursday 17 July

9:00 – 10:15               Parallel Session V:

• Jonathan Cottrell, York University, “Empiricism and Naturalism in Hume’s Philosophy”
  • Comments by Miren Boehm, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• David Raynor, University of Ottawa, “The Origin of Hume’s Philosophy”
  • Comments by Mark Spencer, Brock University

10:15 – 10:45             Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00             Parallel Session VI:

• Jerónimo Narváez Cano, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Hume and the Principle of Sufficient Reason”
  • Comments by Georges Dicker, State University of New York Brockport University

• Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, “The Most Progressive Part of Hume’s Philosophy: The Soviet Version”
  • Comments by Karánn Durland, Austin College

12:00 – 13:30             Lunch 

13:30 – 15:00             Panel: Hume and Philosophy of Emotion

•  Åsa Carlsson, Stockholm University
• Ronald de Sousa, University of Toronto
• Amy Schmitter, University of Alberta

15:00 – 15:30             Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:45             Parallel Session VII

• Byoungjae Kim, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, “Two Influences of General Rules in Hume’s Treatise”
  • Comments by Emily Kelahan, Dickinson College

• Bianca Monteleona, Sapienza Università di Roma, “Virtue, Sex and Reputation: Hume and Wollstonecraft on Chastity and Modesty”
  • Comments by Allauren Forbes, McMaster University

17:00 – 19:00             Reception

Friday 18 July

9:00 – 10:15                 Parallel Session VIII:

• Dario Perinetti, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Desire and Satisfaction: Understanding Hume’s Sceptical Strategy
  • Comments by Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia

• Thierry Côté, University of Toronto, “Hume on Cultivated Nature and the Artificial Virtues”
  • Comments by Jane McIntyre, Cleveland State University

10:15 – 10:45             Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00             Parallel Session IX

• Joshua Royles, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Personal Identity Tranquilized by Passion: Becoming Active in Hume”
  • Comments by Donald Ainslie, University of Toronto
• Haruko Inoue, Sapporo University, “Hume’s Treatment of the Direct Passions in the Treatise”
  • Comments by Katharina Paxman, Brigham Young University

12:00 – 13:30             Lunch

 13:30 – 15:00             Panel: Hume and the History of Analytic Philosophy

• Tamás Demeter, Corvinus University of Budapest
• Yumiko Inukai, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau, University of Vienna 

15:00 – 15:30             Coffee Break 

15:30 – 17:00             Plenary III

                                   Kate Abramson, Indiana University

19:00 – 22:00             Banquet