The 38th International Hume Society Conference will be held between July 18th – 23rd 2011 at
The Old College, Edinburgh
HUME AFTER 300 YEARS
Hosted by The Hume Society and The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, with financial support from The British Academy, The British Council, The Kolkata Heritage Trust, Manchester Metropolitan University, The Mind Association, Oxford University Press, The Scots Philosophical Association, The University of Edinburgh, and Wiley Blackwell.
Keynote speakers:
- David Fergusson (University of Edinburgh)
- Don Garrett (New York University)
- Susan James (Birkbeck College, University of London)
- Karen O’Brien (University of Birmingham)
- Amartya Sen (Harvard University)
- Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
Invited plenary panel sessions:
- Hume as stylist
- Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment in India
- Hume’s moral psychology
- Hume in France
Book panels:
- Simon Blackburn’s How to Read Hume, Robert Fogelin’s Hume’s Sceptical Crisis, and John Wright’s Hume’s Treatise: An Introduction
- Nicholas Phillipson’s new edition of Hume: The Philosopher as Historian
The deadline for submission of papers to be considered for presentation has now passed. No further submissions will be accepted.
For further information, please contact James Harris.