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