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Conference Schedule

Thursday, April 14th
All Thursday events will be held in Cashion unless otherwise noted.
4:00-7:00 p.m.	5th Floor	Registration
7:30-9:00 p.m.	5th Floor	Is Hume a Scottish Philosopher? Gordon Graham, University of Aberdeen
9:00-10:00 p.m.	5th Floor	Reception
Friday, April 15th
All Friday events will be held in the Bill Daniel Student Center unless otherwise noted.
8:00-8:30 a.m.		Coffee
8:30-10:00 a.m.	Fentress	Reid's Theory of Memory Rebecca Copenhaver, Lewis and Clark College Reid on Memory Jay Bruce, Baylor University
	Beckham	Is there Truly a Kantian Resolution to Hume's Problem of the Self? Paul Wilson, Texas State University Is and Ought: Hume v. Kant Andrew Ward, University of York
	Baines	Bishop Butler and David Hume David White, St. John Fisher College Hume's Theory of Mind in 18th Century Germany Falk Wunderlich, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
10:00-10:30 a.m.		Break
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	Beckham	Representing Personal Identity Donald Baxter, University of Connecticut Character and the Diachronic Account of Self in "Hume's Philosophy of the Self" Susan M. Purviance, University of Toledo
	Baines	The "Common Sense" Criticism of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments A.J. Terjesen, Austin College On Benevolence and Gratitude: The Problem of Merit in Adam Smith Edward J. Harpham, University of Texas at Dallas
	Fentress	Reid's Direct Realism about Visual Perception Giovanni Grandi, University of Western Ontario The Duality in Hume: A Reconciliation of the Phenomenalist and Skeptical Realist Interpretations Stephen Campbell, Texas A&M University
12:00-1:00 p.m.		Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 p.m.	Fentress	The Neglected Notion of Believing the Other Person in Testimonial Belief Albert Chan, University of Southern California The Evolution of Hume's Position on the Livability of Skepticism Brian Ribeiro, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
	Baines	Hume and Smith on Aesthetic and Ethical Responses to the Sublime of Character Jonathan Friday, Rutherford College, University of Kent Hume on the Moral Assessment of People for their Beliefs Rico Vitz, University of California Riverside
	Beckham	Reid v. Bayle and Hume: How Good is the World? Dale Tuggy, SUNY at Fredonia Probable Reasoning, and Belief in Miracles in Hume's Philosophy Aaron Cobb, St. Louis University
2:30-3:00 p.m.		Break
3:00-4:30 p.m.	Baines	Newtonianism without God: Hume as a Philosophical Critic Lynn Joy, University of Notre Dame David Hume and Adam Smith on Imagination, Nature and Narrative David Wiens, Texas A&M University
3:00-4:30 p.m.	Beckham	A Puzzle Regarding Reid on Motivation Terence Cuneo, Calvin College Hume on Practical Reason David Phillips, University of Houston
6:30-7:30 p.m.	Barfield	Conference Dinner
7:30-9:00 p.m.	Barfield	Kant's System and Common Sense Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame
Saturday, April 16th
All Saturday events will be held in the Bill Daniel Student Center unless otherwise noted.
8:00-8:30 a.m.		Coffee
8:30-10:00 a.m.	Fentress	Reid on Freedom John Howell, III, Baylor University Reid's Criticism of Hume's Conceivability-Possibility Principle Rene van Woudenberg, Free University, Amsterdam
	Baines	Hume's Ethics in the Work of Jane Austen E.M. Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma Hume's "Unaccountable Pleasure" of Tragedy in the Concept of the Fine Arts Dabney Townsend, Armstrong Atlantic State University
	Beckham	Evolutionary Theory and the Metaphilosophy of Common Sense Stephen Boulter, Oxford Brookes University Skepticism, Dogmatism and Common Sense P.D. Magnus, University of Albany, SUNY
10:00-10:30 a.m.		Break
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	Barfield	Hume versus Reid on Testimony and Miracles James van Cleve, Brown University and University of Southern California
12:00-1:00 p.m.		Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 p.m.	Baines	Hutcheson's Response to Hobbesian Selfishness Phyllis Vanderberg, Grand Valley State University Hutcheson's Sentimentalist Deontology? Jeffrey Edwards, University of Stony Brook, SUNY
	Fentress	Hume and Reid on the Content of Thought Ryan Nichols, Calvin College Hume's Commitment to and Critique of 'Knowledge by Acquaintance' Ken Westphal, University of East Anglia
	Beckham	The Refined Judge or the Lover of Beauty: Burke's Critique of Hume's Standard of Taste Michael Funk Deckard, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The Philosophy of Art in Reid's Inquiry and its Place in the Tradition of 18th Century Scottish Aesthetics Michael DeMoor, Institute for Christian Studies
2:30-3:00 p.m.		Break
3:00-4:30 p.m.	Baines	Hume, Reid and the Sceptical Tradition David Raynor, University of Ottawa and University of British Columbia George Campbell's Critique of Hume on Testimony A.E. Pitson, University of Stirling
3:00-4:30 p.m.	Beckham	Hume, Descartes, and Adam Wade Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology Hume's Foundational Ambition in the Introduction to the Treatise Miren Boehm, University of California Irvine
4:30-5:00 p.m.		Break
5:00-6:30 p.m.	Baines	On Hume's Fork: A Relation of Ideas or a Matter of Fact Ken Chung and Belkind, University of Western Ontario James' Answer to Hume Yumiko Inukai, University of Pennsylvania
5:00-6:30 p.m.	Beckham	Hume, Hamilton and Creative Destruction Tom Velk and Al Riggs, McGill University From Singular Event to Moral Science: The Relationship of Philosophy and History in David Hume James Sauer, St. Mary's University

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Saturday, April 16th