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Hume

Hume and the Enlightenment

~ a conference

 

13 and 14 July 2009

Adelaide Australia

Conference Theme

Hume continues to have a profound influence on philosophical thought and ideas. Yet Hume’s influence extends well beyond philosophy to a range of others disciplines including politics, history, literature and economics. While Hume is now widely regarded as the most significant of British philosophers, he was in his day counted a significant essayist and historian. Further, the influences of Hume’s empiricism stretch from encouraging the exploration of sentiment in literature to being a precursor to the new discipline of cognitive science. Taking recent work on Hume – including Hume’s Enlightenment Tract – as a starting point, this conference aims to examine Hume’s thought and influence not just on philosophy but on a range of other disciplines.

 

Keynote Speaker: Dr Stephen Buckle
(Australian Catholic University)

Dr Buckle, an internationally renowned Hume scholar, is the author of Hume’s Enlightenment Tract (Oxford University Press, 2001) and editor of Hume’s An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Call for Papers

We are currently calling for papers on Hume’s philosophical and other writings, and for papers focused on Enlightenment ideas as they may relate to Hume and his intellectual influence in the broadest sense.

 

Offers of papers including a 250 word abstract should be sent to:

 

Philosophy Department
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100 Adelaide, SA 5001

 

Abstracts may alternatively be emailed to Dr Craig Taylor

 

Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2008

 

Supported by the Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange

 

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