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Monday 14 July
10:30-12:30 Mentoring Workshop and Lunch for Participants – UH 312
13:00–13:15 Opening: LRW 1055
13:15–14:45 Plenary I: LRW 1055
Miriam Schleifer McCormick
University of Richmond
Chair: Margaret Watkins, Providence College
14:45–15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-16:30 Parallel Session I:
LRW 1055:
Hongbin Zhao, National University of Singapore, “Language and Determination in Hume’s Demonstrative Inference”
Comments: Lewis Powell, University at Buffalo
Chair: Tito Magri
LRW 1056:
Luca Quinto, University of Pavia, “Hume on Wisdom: An Umbrella Concept between Sapientia and Prudentia”
Comments: Juan Samuel Santos Castro, Ponitificia Universidad Javeriana
Chair: Ann Levey, University of Calgary
17:00–19:00 Reception: The Great Hall at Alumni Hall
Tuesday 15 July
9:00–10:15 Parallel Session II:
LRW 2001:
Ariel Melamedoff, McGill University, “Mary Shepherd’s Objection to Hume’s Fork”
Comments: Maité Cruz, Union College
Chair: Lauren Kopajtic, Fordham University
LRW b1008:
Enrico Galvagni, University of Edinburgh, “Hume and Midgley: Human Nature, Sentiment, and Morality”
Comments: Jenny Welchman, University of Alberta
Chair: Glen Koehn, Huron University
10:15–10:45 Coffee Break
10:45–12:00 Parallel Session III
LRW 2001:
Katherine Dunlop, University of Texas Austin, “A. J. Ayer on the Common-Sense Theory of the Physical World
Comments: Daniel Goldstick, University of Toronto
Chair: Ron Wilburn, University of Calgary
LRW b1008:
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Most Progressive Part of Hume’s Philosophy: The Soviet Version”
Comments: Karánn Durland, Austin College
Chair: David Raynor, University of Ottawa
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch: Commons – CENTRO Dining Hall
13:15 – 14:45 Panel: Hume and Feminism – LRW 1055
Lauren Kopajtic, Fordham University
Getty Lustila, Northeastern University
Jacqueline Taylor, University of San Francisco
Chair: Allauren Forbes, McMaster University
14:45-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:00 Book Panel: LRW 1055
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
Chair: Tamás Demeter, Corvinus University of Budapest
Wednesday 16 July
9:00 – 10:15 Parallel Session IV:
LRW 1055:
Charles Goldhaber, University of Florida, “Mechanisms for Hume’s Skepticism: Doxastic and Emotional
Comments: Nathan Sasser, Greenville Technical College
Chair: Lorne Falkenstein, Western University
LRW 1056:
Lorraine Besser, Middlebury College, “Learning from the Stoic Sage: The Influence of Stoicism on Hume’s Moral Ideal”
Comments: Jason Fisette, University of Nevada, Reno
Chair: Enrico Galvagni, University of Edinburgh
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Plenary II: LRW 1055
Peter Millican, Hertford College, Oxford University
Chair: Liz Goodnick, Metropolitan State University of Denver
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch: Commons – CENTRO Dining Hall
13:15- 17:00 Excursion
Thursday 17 July
9:00 – 10:15 Parallel Session V:
LRW 1056:
Jonathan Cottrell, York University, “Empiricism and Naturalism in Hume’s Philosophy”
Comments: Miren Boehm, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Chair: Charles Goldhaber, University of Florida
LRW b1008:
David Raynor, University of Ottawa, “The Origin of Hume’s Philosophy”
Comments: Mark Spencer, Brock University
Chair: Katie Paxman, Brigham Young University
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00 Parallel Session VI:
LRW 1056:
Jerónimo Narváez Cano, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Hume and the Principle of Sufficient Reason”
Comments: Georges Dicker, State University of New York Brockport University
Chair: Nathan Sasser, Greenville Technical College
LRW b1008:
Pamela Ahern, University of Delaware, “The Marian Controversy and Hume’s Use of Original Sources”
Comments: Marc Hanvelt, Carleton University
Chair: Jane McIntyre, Cleveland State University
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch – Commons – CENTRO Dining Hall
13:30–15:00 Panel: Hume and Philosophy of Emotion – LRW 1055
Åsa Carlsson, Stockholm University
Ronald de Sousa, University of Toronto
Amy Schmitter, University of Alberta
Chair: Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio, McMaster University
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45 Parallel Session VII
LRW 1055:
Byoungjae Kim, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, “Two Influences of General Rules in Hume’s Treatise”
Comments: Emily Kelahan, Dickinson College
Chair: Dario Perinetti, Université du Québec à Montréal
LRW 1056:
Bianca Monteleone, Sapienza Università di Roma, “Virtue, Sex and Reputation: Hume and Wollstonecraft on Chastity and Modesty”
Comments: Allauren Forbes, McMaster University
Chair: Jerónimo Narváez Cano, Université du Québec à Montréal
17:00 – 19:00 Reception: The Great Hall at Alumni Hall
Friday 18 July
Friday 18 July
9:00 – 10:15 Parallel Session VIII:
LRW 1055:
Dario Perinetti, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Desire and Satisfaction: Understanding Hume’s Sceptical Strategy
Comments: Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia
Chair: Eugene Chislenko, Temple University
LRW 1056:
Thierry Côté, University of Toronto, “Hume on Cultivated Nature and the Artificial Virtues”
Comments: Jane McIntyre, Cleveland State University
Chair: Stefan Sciaraffa, McMaster University
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00 Parallel Session IX
LRW 1055:
Joshua Royles, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Personal Identity Tranquilized by Passion: Becoming Active in Hume”
Comments: Donald Ainslie, University of Toronto
Chair: Lewis Powell, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
LRW 1056:
Haruko Inoue, Sapporo University, “Hume’s Treatment of the Direct Passions in the Treatise”
Comments: Katie Paxman, Brigham Young University
Chair: Jason Fisette, University of Nevada, Reno
12:00–13:45 Buffet Lunch/Business Meeting – LRW 1055
13:45–15:15 Panel: Hume and the History of Analytic Philosophy – LRW 1055
Tamás Demeter, Corvinus University of Budapest
Yumiko Inukai, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Alexander Klein, McMaster University
Chair: Jason Fisette, University of Nevada, Reno
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15 Plenary III: LRW 1055
Kate Abramson, Indiana University
Chair: Donald Ainslie, University of Toronto
19:00 – 22:00 Banquet: The Diplomat
43 King William Street, Hamilton ON
https://thediplomat.ca