Common Sense and Enlightenment
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A long term project of the CSSP comes to fruition in 2015 when the first two volumes of a multi-authored History of Scottish Philosophy will be published by Oxford University Press. Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century, Volume One, edited by James Harris (University of St Andrews) and Aaron Garrett (Boston University) covers Scottish Enlightenment writers and topics in morality, politics, aesthetics and religion. Scottish Philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, edited by Gordon Graham, engages with the post-Enlightenment debates between once famous, but now much less well known, Scottish philosophers—Thomas Brown, William Hamilton, J F Ferrier, Alexander Bain, John Macmurray—with chapters on more wide ranging topics such as the Scottish reception of Kant and Hegel, the rise of Idealism, and the influence of Scottish philosophy abroad. The CSSP Spring Conference 2015 will celebrate the appearance of these two volumes. Plenary sessions and panels will take up themes from the chapters of the books - see preliminary program and list of invited speakers below. The 2105 Spring Conference has additional financial support from the Scots Philosophical Association.
Preliminary Program Friday 13th
10-12 Panel: ‘Scottish Philosophy before the Enlightenment’
Christian Maurer (Fribourg), Colin Heydt (South Florida), Giovanni Gellera (Glasgow)
Chair commentator, Dan Garber (Princeton)
1.30-3.00 Concurrent Session I
3.15-4.45 Plenary Lecture: Don Garrett (NYU)
"Hume's Philosophical Ambitions: Aims and Outcomes"
Reception and Banquet
Saturday 14th
9-10.30 Concurrent Sessions II
11-12 Symposium: The Scottish Reception of Kant,
Paul Guyer (Brown), Des Hogan (Princeton)
1.30- 3 Concurrent Sessions III
3.30 - 4.30 Symposium: Common Sense and Pragmatism
Peter Baumann (Swarthmore) and Douglas McDermid (Trent, Ontario)
Sunday 15th
9.00-10.30 Symposium: Adam Smith
Remy Debes (Memphis) and Fonna Forman (San Diego)
10.45-12.00
Concurrent Sessions IV
1.15-2.45
Panel: ‘The Idea of a Scottish Philosophical tradition’
Gordon Graham (Princeton Seminary), James Harris (St Andrews), Aaron Garrett (Boston)
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