Dear all,
Here are further details of the Spring meeting of the Scots Philosophical Club, taking place in St Andrews on Wednesday May 6th.
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A Hume workshop/Spring meeting of the Scots Philosophical Club
St Andrews, Wednesday May 6th 2009
9.30 coffee and registration
10.00-11.30 Hannah Dawson, Edinburgh
‘Agency, interest and allegiance: the anomaly of Hume's artificial virtues'
Respondent: Christopher MacLeod, St Andrews
11.30-11.45 coffee
11.45-1.15 Aaron Garrett, Boston
‘Reasoning about morals, from Butler to Hume’
Respondent: Ezra Macdonald, St Andrews
1.15-2.15 lunch
2.15-3.45 James Harris, St Andrews
‘Hume’s peculiar definition of justice’
Respondent: Jesse Tomalty, St Andrews
3.45-4.15 coffee
4.15-6.00 Galen Strawson, Reading
‘“... when I enter most intimately into what I call myself ...”’
Respondent: Ruth Boeker, St Andrews
6.00 workshop ends
We'd be grateful if members planning to attend could email philo...@st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:philo...@st-andrews.ac.uk>, so that we can get an idea of numbers - please also let us know if you would like to stay on for dinner after the workshop.
All talks apart from Galen Strawson’s will be given in The Hebdomadar’s Room, St. Salvator’s Quad. Galen Strawson’s talk will be given in the Philosophy Department, Room 104, Edgecliffe.
The workshop is part of series of events on Scottish philosophy in Scotland funded by a Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities Award. For further information, please contact James Harris (ja...@st-and.ac.uk<mailto:ja...@st-and.ac.uk>).
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Dr. Michael Brady
Department of Philosophy
67-69 Oakfield Avenue
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland, UK
Tel: 0141 330 3706
Fax: 0141 330 4112
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/ourstaff/michaelbrady/
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