Twenty-second International Hume Conference

Reason & Sympathy

25-29 July 1995

Reason & Sympathy

22nd International Hume Conference

25-29 July 1995

Park City, Utah

Conference Directors Charlotte Brown, Illinois Wesleyan University

Don Garrett, University of Utah

William E. Morris, University of Cincinnati

All program sessions will be held in the Olympia Park Hotel and Conference Center

(801 -649-2900; from Salt Lake, 355-091 0).

The Twenty-second International Hume Conference is sponsored by The Hume Society and the University of Utah College of Humanities.

The Conference is supported by the College of Humanities and Department of Philosophy of the University of Utah, with additional support from Illinois Wesleyan University.

This program is made possible by a grant from the Utah Humanities Council.

Public Lectures and all program sessions are open to the public.

One hour of non-graded college credit (Philosophy 379) is available through the University of Utah Division of Continuing Education.

To register for credit, call 581-8113.

Tuesday, July 25

Registration: 2:00--5:00 PM and 6:30-8:00 PM

Opening Session 5:00-6:30 PM

Welcome Pat Hanna Dean of the College of Humanities University of Utah

Hume's "new and extraordinary" Account of the Passions

Speaker Jane Mcintyre, Cleveland State University

Buffet Reception 6:30-9:00 PM

Entertainment: The Bluegrass Conspiracy

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Wednesday, july 26 Wednesday, July 26 cont. Session 1 1 A Speaker Commentator Chair

1 B

Speaker Commentator Chair

Coffee Break

Session 2 2A Speaker

Commentator Chair

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Session 3 3A

Speaker Commentator Chair

38

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lunch Break

9:00-10:00 AM

Hume and the Reality of Value jacqueline Taylor, Tufts University Thomas Hill, University of North Carolina Dorothy Coleman

College of William and Mary

Hot and Cold Cognition: the Chairlift Example

Saul Traiger, Occidental College john Biro, University of Florida Stephen Downes, University of Utah

10:00-10:15 AM

10:15-11:15 AM

Understanding Human Understanding janet Broughton

University of California at Berkeley Donald Sievert, University of Missouri Wade Robison

Rochester Institute of Technology

Normativity in Hume's Treatise: Partiality, Self-Regulation, and Self-Concern

Susan Martinelli-Fernandez Western Illinois University

Nicholas Bull University of California at Irvine

Leslie Francis, University of Utah

11 : 15-12: 15 PM

Kantian Tunes on a Humean Instrument

Elizabeth Radcliffe, Santa Clara University Tamar Schapiro, Harvard University Cynthia Stark, University of Utah

Hume on Inconceivability, Impossibility and Adequate Ideas

D. Tycerium Lightner Ohio State University

Dale jacquette Pennsylvania State University

Barbara LaBossiere Florida State University

12:15-2:30 PM

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Session 4 4A

Speaker Commentator

Chair

48 Speaker

Commentator

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Coffee Break

Session 5 SA

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Public.lecture

Speaker

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2:30-3:30 PM

Hume on Involuntariness of Moral Character

Paul Russell, University of British Columbia Cynthia Schossberger

University of Pennsylvania Don Gustafson, University of Cincinnati

Hume on Mathematical Thinking Charles Echelbarger

State University of New York at Oswego David Sullivan

Metropolitan State University of Denver David Owen, University of Arizona

3:30-3:45 PM

3:45-4:45 PM

Adam Smith on "Sympathy" and the Moral Sentiments

Charles Griswold, Boston University Kurt Norlin

University of California at Irvine Bruce Landesman, University of Utah

The Love of Being Loved by Those We Love

Joel Anderson, Washington University Dorothy Coleman

College of William and Mary Jacqueline Taylor, Tufts University

7:30-9:30 PM

Naturalism and Paradox in Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment

Barry Stroud University of California at Berkeley

Peter Appleby, University of Utah

Thursday, July 27 Thursday, July 27 cont.

Session 6

6A

Speaker Panelists

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Coffee Break

Session 7

7 A

78

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7C

Speaker

Commentator Chair

9:00-10:00 AM

Workshop on the Oxford Philosophical Texts Edition of Hume's Treatise

David Fate Norton, McGill University Jessica Spector, University of Chicago Dale )acquette

Pennsylvania State University David Owen, University of Arizona Tony Pitson, University of Stirling Jane Mcintyre, Cleveland State University

From Cognitive Science to Postmodernism: A New Reading of Hume 's First Enquiry

Anne )aap jacobson University of Houston

Peter Jones, University of Edinburgh Corliss Swain, St. Olaf College

10:00-10:15 AM

10:15-1 1:1 5 AM

Continuation of Workshop on the Oxford Philosophical Texts

Hume: Radical Sceptic or Naturalized Epistemologist?

Kevin M . Meeker University of Notre Dame

James Mattie, Boulder, Colorado William E. Morris

University of Cincinnati

Reason, Sympathy and Other Minds inHume's Treatise

M arek Pyka . Crakow.Unive.rsity of Technolo9,r,

Arthur Kufhk, Umversity of Vermont Larry Jost, University of Cincinnati

Session 8 8A

Speaker Commentator Chair

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8C

Speaker

Commentator Chair

Train Ride

11 :15- 12:15 PM

Sympathy and the Unity of Hume's Idea of the Self

Donald Ainslie, University of Pittsburgh Kathleen Schmidt, University of Iowa Pauline Kaurin, Temple University

Thoughts about Hume's Essay on Tragedy

Fay Sawyier, Indiana University Mary Mothersill, Barnard College Patricia Curd, Purdue University

Hume 's Touchstone and the Politics of Meaningful Discourse

Wilfried K. Backhaus Camrose, Alberta

Corli ss Swain, St. Olaf College Claudia Schmidt, University of Iowa

1:30-6:00 PM Heber Valley Historic Railroad (Meet at Olympia Park Hotel.)

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Friday, July 28 cont.Friday, July 28

Session 9 9A

Speaker

Commentator Chair

9B

Speaker

Response

Chair

Coffee Break

Session 10 lOA Speaker Commentator Chair

10 B Speaker

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10 c

Speaker Commentator

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Session 11 11 A

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11B

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9:00-10:00 AM

Humean Naturalism and the Problem of Induction

Francis Dauer University of California at Santa Barbara

Martin Curd, Purdue University Clifton Mcintosh, University of Utah

Potkay's The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume

Mark Box University of Alaska at Fairbanks

Adam Potkay College of William and Mary

Peter Jones, University of Edinburgh

10:00-10:15 AM

10:15-11:15 AM

Reason, Morals, and Animality in Hume Peter Fosl, Hollins College Tatsuya Sakamoto, Keio University Charlotte Brown, Illinois Wesleyan

Hume's Use of Nature Ken Richman

Rutgers University at Douglass James Dye, Northern Illinois University Saul Traiger, Occidental College

A Change in Manner: Hume's Scepticism in the Treatise and Enquiry

Miriam McCormick, McGill University Karann Durland

University of North Carolina Don Garrett, University of Utah

11 : 15-12: 15 PM

Hume's External World: Skepticism in Context

lawrence M. Sanger Ohio State University

Philip C. Cummins, University of Iowa Don Sievert, University of Missouri

Hume, Moral Motivation, and Calm Passions

Clark Thompson, University of Virginia Calvin Stewart, Santa Clara University Robert Johnson, University of Missouri

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lunch Break 12:15-2:30 PM

Session 12 2:30-3:30 PM

12A Knowledge and Skepticism in Hume's Enquiry

Speaker Robert Meyers, SUNY at Albany Commentator larry Colter, Illinois Wesleyan University Chair lawrence M. Sanger, Ohio State University

12 B Multiple Meanings and Plural Perspectives

Speaker Maria J. Montes Fuentes lnstituto Maria de Molina, Madrid

Commentator Wade Robison Rochester Institute of Technology

Chair James Dye, Northern Illinois University

Coffee Break 3:30-3:45 PM

Session 13 3:45-4:45 PM

13A Hume's Passionate Reason Speaker Eleanor E. Wittrup

University of Massachusetts at lowell Commentator Tito Magri, Universita di Bari Chair Kiyoshi Shimokawa, Chubu University

13B Nature, Association and the Fundamental Difference Between Hutcheson and Hume

Speaker Michael Gill, Purdue University Commentator Derk Pereboom, University of Vermont Chair Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University

Meeting of the Hume Society 4:45-5:45 PM

Public Lecture 7:30-9:30 PM

Hume's Cutting-Edge Moral Psychology: What We Are Learning about Sympathy's Devilish Details

Speaker Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan Chair Annette Baier, University of Pittsburgh

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Session 14 14A Speaker Commentator

Chair

14 B Speaker Commentator Chair

Session 15 15 A Speaker Commentator Chair

15 B Speaker Commentator

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15 c

Speaker Commentator

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Coffee Break

Session 16

16A Speaker Commentator Chair

16 B

Speaker Commentator

Chair

Saturday, July 29 1:00-2:00 PM

Sympathy and Other Selves Tony Pitson, University of Stirling William R. Carter

North Carolina State University Edward Barbanell, University of Utah

The Self-Destruction of Reason Michael Lynch, University of Mississippi David Owen, University of Arizona Eric Wiseman, University of Utah

2:00-3:00 PM

The Missing Shade of Blue S. K. Wertz, Texas Christian University John 0. Nelson, University of Colorado john Biro, University of Florida

Hume's Two Mechanisms of Sympathy Kate Abramson, University of Chicago Chris Williams

University of Nevada at Reno Larry jost, University of Cincinnati

Reid: Conception, Representation, and Innate Ideas

Roger Gallie, University of Nottingham Lorne Falkenstein

University of Western Ontario Philip Cummins, University of Iowa

3:00-3:15 PM

3:15-4:15 PM

Hume Induction and Reason Peter Millican, University of Leeds Arata Hamawaki, Harvard University Michael Lynch, University of Mississippi

The Common Point of View in Hume's Ethics

Rachel Cohon, Stanford University Mary Clayton Coleman

Harvard University Elizabeth Radcliffe, Santa Clara University

Program Committee

Marcia Baron University of Jllinois at Champaign-Urbana

Mark Box University of Alaska at Fairbanks

justin Broackes Brown University

Rachel Cohon Stanford University

Richard Dees St. Louis University

Jamie Ferreira University of Virginia

Don Garrett University of Utah

Don Gustafson University of Cincinnati

Manfred Kuehn Purdue University

Sheryl Kuhlman Franklin and Marshall University

Keith Lehrer University of Arizona

Tom Lennon University of Western Ontario

james Mattie Boulder, Colorado

jane Mcintyre Cleveland State University

David Owen University of Arizona

Elizabeth Radcliffe Santa Clara University

Wade Robison Rochester Institute of Technology

Fred Schmidt University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

Rob Shaver University of Manitoba

jacqueline Taylor Tufts University

Saul Traiger Occidental College

Closing Banquet 7:00-10:00 PM

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And special thanks to: Eric Wiseman Edward Barbanell Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center University of Utah Conferences and Institutes Frances Garrett Linda Weiner Morris Saul Traiger Alan Bigler Sandra McGuire

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