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SOCIETY AND HUMAN NATURE: A Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
June 15, 2022
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Edgecliffe, Room 104, University of St Andrews
9:30-10:00: Welcome coffee
Morning session:
Chair: James Harris (University of St Andrews)
10:00-10:45: David Harmon (University of St Andrews) “The Model of Human Nature and Whether ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’ in Spinoza”
10:45-11:30: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin) “Catharine Trotter Cockburn on Self-interest, Self-love, and Benevolence”
11:30-12:00: Coffee Break
12:00-12:45: M. Folescu (University of Missouri) “Some remarks on Mary Shepherd’s Essays on the Perception of an External Universe”
12:45-14:00: Lunch
Afternoon session:
Chair: Mara van der Lugt (University of St Andrews)
14:00-14.45: Xiao Qi (University of St Andrews) “Unpacking the Sentiment of Moral Obligation in Hume’s Treatise: Ambiguities and Tentative Solutions”
14:45-15:30: Catherine Dromelet (University of Antwerp) “Hume and Durkheim. Common views on sociality”
15:30-16:00: Coffee Break
16:00-16:45: Tim Stuart-Buttle (University of York) “‘The only true conservatism’: Hume, Dewey, and the experimental method in morals”
18:00: Dinner
Please email [email protected] by 10 June to register
Organized by Enrico Galvagni with the generous support of the University of St Andrews, St Leonard’s Postgraduate College, Scots Philosophical Association, CEPPA, and the British Society for the History of Philosophy