DAVID HUME CONFERENCE
JULY 19-23, 1999
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK

Monday, July 19

1:30– 3:45 p.m.     Registration

4 p.m.                   Plenary Session     Rosalind Hursthouse       "Virtues and Human Nature"

6– 7 p.m.              Reception
 

Tuesday, July 20

9:30 –10:45 a.m.    “Social Myths, Powerlessness, and the Monkish Virtues”
                            Linda Peterson
                            Jessica Spector, com.
                           Arthur Kuflik, chair

                            “Hume’s Theory of Truth”
                            Michael Lynch
                            Bruce Aune, com.
                            John Biro, chair
 
11:15 –12:30 p.m.  “Hume and Reid: On Promises”
                             Luco Parisoli
                             Stephen Darwall, com.
                             Richard Nunan, chair

                            “Hume on Primary and Secondary Qualities”
                            Karann Durland
                            Donald Baxter, com.
                            Georges Dicker, chair

2:30-3:45 p.m.       “The Shackles of Virtue: Hume on Allegiance to Government”
                            Rachel Cohon
                            Tito Magri, com.
                            Donald, Ainslie, chair

                            “Spreading It Thick: Hume on the Idea of Necessary Connection”
                            Cian Dorr
                            Don Garrett, com.
                            Desmond Clarke, chair

4-6 p.m.              Plenary Session         Louis Loeb         "Stability in Hume's Accounts of Belief and Justification"

Wednesday, July 21

9:30-10:45 a.m.     “Demea’s Dilemmas
                            Thomas Olshewsky
                            Toshihiko Ise, com.
                            John Gill, chair

                            “A Last Shot at Hume’s Reminder”
                            Rolf George
                            Georges Dicker, com.
 

                            “Hume’s Dissolution of the Problem of Tragedy”
                            Scott Samuelson
                            Peter Kivy, com.
                            Mary Mothersill, chair

11:15-12:30 p.m.     “Sensible Knave, the Unity of the Virtues, and Vices From Design”
                             James King
                             Richard Nunan, com.
 

                            “Doing It His Way: Hume’s Theory of Ideas and Cognitive Science”
                            Anne Jaap Jacobson
                            Udo Thiel, com.
                            Lorne Falkenstein, chair

                            “An Unaccountable Pleasure: Hume on Tragedy and the Passions”
                            Alex Neill
                            Mary Mothersill, com.
                            Peter Kivy, chair

1 p.m.-7 p.m.  Excursion
 

Thursday, July 22

9:30-10:45 p.m.     “Character and Moral Agreement in Hume’s Ethics”
                             Donald Ainslie
                            Jane McIntyre, com.
                            Rachel Cohon, chair

                            “Hume’s Account of Memory”
                            Jeffrey McDonough
                            Francis Dauer, com.
                            Rolf George, chair

                            “Hume, Money, and Civilization: Or Why Was Hume a Metallist?”
                            George Caffentzis
                            William Connolly, com.
                            Michael Mahoney, chair

11:15-12:30 p.m.     “Society and Morals: Humeon the Formation of Character”
                            Timothy Costelloe
                            Jacqueline Taylor, com.
                            Jessica Spector, chair

                            “Hume on Memory”
                            John Biro
                            Alan Hausman, com.
                            Francis Dauer, chair

                            "Hume and 18th Century Aesthetic Experiments"
                            Ernesto Garcia
                            David Raynor, com.
                            Aaron Ridley, chair

1:30-2:30 p.m.      Business Meeting

2:30-3:45 p.m.      “Hume’s Ethics: Ancient or Modern”
                           Marcia Homiak
                           Arthur Kuflik, com.
                           Jane Kneller, chair

                            “Hume’s Developmental Psychology”
                            Lorne Falkenstein
                            Karl Ameriks, com.
                            Rob Wilson, chair

4-6 p.m.              Plenary Session         Galen Strawson        "Humean selves (fiction-free)"

7 p.m.                 Banquet
 

Friday, July 23

9:30-10:45 a.m.      “The Confusion of Elegant Lord Shaftesbury”
                            Michael Gill
                            Charlotte Brown, com.
                            Stephen Darwall, chair

                            “Reason Unhinged: Passion and Precipice from Montaigne to Hume”
                            Saul Traiger
                            Wade Robison, com.
                            J. M. Bell, chair

11:15-12:30 p.m.     “Hume’s Theory of Weakness”
                            Joseph Biehl
                            Joseph Ellin, com.
 

                            “New Humes for Old: Sceptical Realism and the AP Property”
                            P.J.E. Kail
                            Kenneth Winkler, com.
                            J. M. O'Shea, chair

2:30-3:45 p.m.      “Language and Hume’s General Point of View”
                            William Davie
                            Corliss Swain, com.
                            Jacqueline Taylor, chair

                            “Animals Learn Many Parts of Their Knowledge From Observation”
                            Theodore Gracyk
                            Ted Morris, com.
                            Bruce Aune, chair

4-6 p.m.              Plenary Session     Kenneth Winkler     "All is revolution in us": personal identity in Shaftesbury, Berkeley, and Hume"

6 p.m.                 Reception