Conference on David Hume The

Conference on David Hume The 30th Annual Hume Society Conference will be held today through August 2 at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Here is the conference website and the schedule. The papers include:

Tito Magri (Università di Roma) presents Hume, Imagination, and Content: A Memorandum.
Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario) presents Hume and Reid on the Nature of Consciousness.
Mark Collier (Stanford) presents A new look at Hume’s theory of probabilistic inference.
Claudia Schmidt (Marquette University) presents Hume, Kant, and Hegel on the Use of Teleological Principles in Historical Narrative.
Peter Fosl (Transylvania University) presents Hume’s Skeptical Naturalism.
Dmitri Kuryshkin (Moscow State University) presents Searching for Objective Social Foundations: David Hume’s Analysis of the Origin of Law and Government.
Gerald Lang (Oxford University) presents Hume’s Remedy for Instrumentalism.
Arthur L. Morton (University of Cincinnati) presents Intelligibility and Error in Hume’s Theory of the Understanding.
Elisa Hurley (Georgetown University) presents Sentimentalism and the Moral Point of View in Hume’s Moral Theory.
Peter Millican (University of Leeds) presents Hume, Miracles, and Probabilities: Meeting Earman’s Challenge.
Saul Traiger (Occidental College) presents Prior Fictions.
Abraham S. Roth (University of Illinois, Chicago) presents The necessity of necessity: The Significance for Hume of the Idea of Necessary Connection.
Session on Imagination in Hobbes and Hume:
Juhana Lemetti (University of Helsinki) presents Imagination in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Hume.
Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere) presents Imagination in Hobbes and Hume.
Martin Bertman (University of Helsinki)presents Imagination: Hobbes and Hume.
Jussi Suikkanen (University of Helsinki) presents Hume’s Theory of Motivation and Principles of Causal Reasoning.
Coherence and the Loose Idea: Brandon Watson (University of Toronto) presents Mental Impulse in Hume’s Theory of the External World.
Session on Hume and the Monkish Virtues:
Jim King (Northern Illinois State University) presents Hume's Denunciation of the Monkish Virtues.
Will Davie (University of Oregon) presents Revisiting Monkish Virtues.
Andrew Cunningham (Boston University) presents The Development of Hume’s Thought on Luxury.
Jean-Pierre Schachter (Huron University College) presents Hume’s Principles of World Construction.
Joseph Filonowicz (Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus) presents Are Ethical Propositions Statistical? C.D. Broad’s Critique - and Defense - of Hume’s Subjective Theory of Moral Judgments.
Bethany Hoffman (Harvard University) presents Hume’s Theories of Belief.
Session on Chas. Hendel’s Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume:
Frits van Holthoon (Groningen University) presents Charles Hendel’s Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume (1925).
Craig Walton (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) presents Comments on Charles W. Hendel’s Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume (1925; 1962).
Peter Loptson (University of Guelph) presents Charles W. Hendel and Hume: A Review and Reconsideration.
Ramsey McNabb (York University) presents Why Hume’s Animal Argument Fails.
Anne Jaap Jacobson (University of Houston) presents Hume and Representation: Understanding Duration and Abstraction.
Rachel Cohon (SUNY Albany) presents Why Hume Thinks Reason is Not a Motive to the Will.
Kevin Meeker (University of South Alabama) presents Hume on Certainty, Knowledge, and Probability: Anticipating the Disintegration of the Analytic/Synthetic Divide?.
Don Baxter (University of Connecticut) presents The Criterion of Identity and the Principium Individuationis.
Session on H. H. Price’s Hume's Theory of the External World:
Rick Fumerton (University of Iowa) presents Hume on our Idea of External Objects: Hylas’s lternative.
Peter Thielke (Pomona College) presents The Price of Gap-Indifference: Hume, Kant, and Objective Successions.
Fred Wilson (University of Toronto) presents Price’s “Hume’s Theory of the External World”: An Appreciation.