Announcing a Conference on the Topic:
The Human Nature Tradition in Anglo-Scottish Philosophy:
Its History and Future Prospects
One of the most striking features of Anglo-Scottish thought from Hobbes to Mill and beyond is its concern with the study of “human nature.” Philosophers in this tradition not only engaged in the empirical study of human psychology and anthropology, but often saw this discipline as foundational with respect to other disciplines—not only morals, political theory and aesthetics, but mathematics, logic, natural science, and religion as well.
To mark the publication of the first complete Hebrew editions of Hobbes’ Leviathan (2009) and Hume’s Treatise on Human Nature (2010), the Shalem Centerwill be conducting a conference on “The Human Nature Tradition in Anglo-Scottish Philosophy: Its History and Future Prospects,” to be held in Jerusalem on December 14-17, 2009.
Historical and philosophical papers will address questions such as: What is the scope and content of this “human nature tradition” in philosophy? Why does this tradition emerge when and where it does? What is its relation to natural science? To the Bible and religion? To classical and medieval thought? What is its relation to philosophical currents on the Continent or in America? Why and how does this tradition begin to wane when it does? Finally, the conveners will be interested in papers that bring this tradition into dialogue with current trends in philosophy and science: Has Anglo-Scottish human nature philosophy now been rendered obsolete by cognitive science, as many seem to believe? Or does this tradition still have something significant to contribute to philosophy or natural science?
Speakers to include:
Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh)
Roger Ariew (University of South Florida)
Stephen Darwall (Yale)
Aaron Garrett (Boston University)
Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Michael Gill (Arizona)
Knud Haakonssen (Sussex)
James Harris (St Andrews)
Michael Heyd (Hebrew University)
Daniel Jacobson (Bowling Green)
Joseph Mali (Tel Aviv University)
Susan Manning (Edinburgh)
Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa)
Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado)
Nicholas Phillipson (Edinburgh)
Jesse Prinz (CUNY Graduate Center)
Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College)
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (UNC—Chapel Hill)
Gordon Schochet (Rutgers University)
Silvia Sebastiani (Istituto Italiano delle Scienze Umane, Florence)
The proceedings will be interdisciplinary in character. The conference organizers welcome participants from the fields of philosophy, political theory, history, cognitive science, and allied disciplines.For registration information, please write to the addresses below.
A limited travel budget will be available to assist graduate students wishing to participate. Graduate students applying for travel assistance should submit a cv, letter of recommendation, and a letter explaining why they wish to participate no later than June 30.
Please direct correspondence to:
Mordechai Feingold, feingold@hss.caltech.edu
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