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BSHP Annual Conference 2010

	Thomas Reid From His Time To Ours Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy 2010 Sun 21 - Tue 23 March 2010: University of Aberdeen Wed 24 - Fri 26 March 2010: University of Glasgow

This programme may be subject to minor changes prior to the event. Speakers will be notified and consulted if there is any change proposed for their session.

Sunday 21 March

4pm Registration

Foyer, King's College Conference Centre (KCCC)

5.15pm Plenary Session 1

KCCC Auditorium:

Thomas Reid in the History of Moral Thought
James Harris (University of St Andrews)

Chair: Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen)

 

6.45pm Reception

James Mackay Hall

7.30pm Dinner

Elphinstone Hall / Zeste

 

Monday 22 March

9.15am Tea and coffee

James Mackay Hall

9.45 - 11.45am Concurrent Sessions 1

Multimedia Room:

Visible Figure as a Primary Quality of Body in Reid
James Crombie (Université Sainte-Anne)

Reid on Single and Double Vision
Giovanni Grandi (University of British Columbia-Okanagan)

Chair: Roger Gallie (University of Aberdeen)

Catherine Gavin Room:

Philosophy of Thomas Reid as pre-Kantian criticism from the continental point of view
Bogusław Wójcik (Catholic University in Ruzomberok)

Thomas Reid and the "stupid Irish Teagues"
Alexander Stewart (University of Aberdeen)

Chair: Alexander Broadie (University of Glasgow)

Carnegie Room:

Thomas Reid’s Experimentum Crucis
Todd Buras (Baylor University)

Thomas Reid Between Externalism and Internalism
René van Woudenberg (VU University Amsterdam)

Chair: Patrick Rysiew (University of Victoria, Canada)

 

12pm Lunch

James Mackay Hall

1pm - 3pm Concurrent Sessions 2

Multimedia Room:

Dugald Stewart on innate ideas and the origin of knowledge
Emanuele Levi Mortera

An Open Revolt against the authority of Reid'. Thomas Brown and the Developments of Common-Sense Philosophy
Cristina Paoletti

Chair: Jamie Hellewell (University of British Columbia)

Carnegie Room:

Counter-Cultural Scepticisms of the Long Enlightenment: Reid, Hamilton, Carlyle, and Beyond
Ralph Jessop (University of Glasgow)

An Abolishionist Too Late? - James Beattie and the Scottish Enlightenment's Lost Chance to Influence the Slave Trade Debate
Glen Doris (University of Aberdeen)

Chair: Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen)

3pm Tea and coffee

James Mackay Hall

3.30 - 5.30pm Concurrent Sessions 3

Multimedia Room:

Reid's Account of the Duties of Self-Governance and Moral Generalism
Martin Brecher (University of Bonn)

Thomas Reid And The Problem Of Evil
Roger Gallie (University of Aberdeen)

Chair: René van Woudenberg (VU University Amsterdam)

Catherine Gavin Room:

The relevance of Reid’s common sense-approach for contemporary psychology
Sabine Roeser (TU Delft)

An Argument for Folk Psychology as a Matter of Common Sense
Edward Skelton (University of Warerloo)

Chair: Lucas Thorpe (University of St Andrews)

Carnegie Room:

The Enkinaesthetic Foundation for the Development of Reidian Artificial Signs
Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow)

Reid's Assault on the Theory of Ideas
Lewis Powell (University of Southern California)

Chair: Alexander Broadie (University of Glasgow)

 

7.30pm Buffet Reception, courtesy of the Principal's Office.

Food and drink will be catered at this event, all delegates are welcome to attend.

The reception will incorporate a Book Launch: Sabine Roeser (ed.) Reid on Ethics

Linklater Rooms

 

Tuesday 23 March

9.15am Tea and coffee

James Mackay Hall

9.45 - 11.45am Concurrent Sessions 4

Multimedia Room:

Claude Buffier, Thomas Reid and other minds
Misericordia Anglés (University of Barcelona)

The influence of Thomas Reid on Paul Joseph Barthez's medical philosophy
Sabine Kraus (EHESS-Paris)

Chair: Alexander Stewart (University of Aberdeen)

Carnegie Room:

Thomas Reid and the Moral Philosophy of Samuel Stanhope Smith
Charles Bow (University of Edinburgh)

Thomas Reid in the US: a Potato-Pop-Gun?
Jean-Marie Chevalier (Université Paris-Est, Institut Jean-Nicod)

Chair: Phyllis Vandeberg (Grand Valley State University)

 

12pm Lunch

James Mackay Hall

1 - 3pm Concurrent Sessions 5

Multimedia Room:

Direct Realism and The Infinite Divisibility of Time in Thomas Reid
James E. Bruce (John Brown University)

The defense of propositions of common sense: a Reidian solution to the epistemic circularity problem
Angélique Thébert

Chair: Stephen Gaukroger (University of Aberdeen)

Catherine Gavin Room:

Thomas Reid and the École écossaise in Early Nineteenth-Century France
James Crombie (Université Sainte-Anne)

Reid’s Theory of Language
David Alexander (Huntington University)

Chair: Emanuele Levi Mortera

Carnegie Room:

Philosophies of common sense from Reid to experimentalists
Renia Gasparatou (University of Patras)

Inquiry and Common-sense: Peirce’s debt to Reid
Daniel Herbert (University of Sheffield)

Chair: Patrick Rysiew (University of Victoria, Canada)

 

3pm Tea and coffee

James Mackay Hall

3.30 - 5pm Plenary Session 2

KCCC Auditorium:

What Kind of Realism? Reid on Aesthetic Response
Laurent Jaffro (University of Paris)

Chair: Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)

 

5pm Tea and coffee

James Mackay Hall

6 - 7pm Concert of Eighteenth Century Music

King's College Chapel

7.30 Municipal Reception

Town House

 

Wednesday 24 March

9.30am Travel to Glasgow

Bus leaves from Premier Inn, West North St, Aberdeen AT 9.30am. Please ensure you are on the bus by 9.20 to ensure timely departure.

2pm - 4pm BSHP Management Committee Meeting

McKechnie Room (10 University Gardens, Grd floor)

4pm - 5pm BSHP Annual General Meeting

Lecture Room (10 University Gardens, 1st floor)

5.15pm Plenary Session 3

Senate Room:

Reid on Consciousness
Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark College) and Udo Thiel (Universität Graz)

Chair: Alexander Broadie (University of Glasgow)

 

6.45pm Wine Reception, sponsored by Edinburgh University Press

Carnegie Room

 

8pm Buffet Dinner

Carnegie Room

 

Thursday 25 March

9.15am Tea and coffee

Carnegie Room

9.45 - 11.45am Concurrent Sessions 6

Senate Room:

Reid on Virtuous Habits, Belief and Moral Responsibility
Esther Kroeker (Catholic University of Leuven-Belgium)

Reid and his fellow Scots on moral foundations
Phyllis Vandenberg (Grand Valley State University)

Chair: Lewis Powell (University of Southern California)

Turnbull Room:

Refining Reid’s Principle of Credulity
Antoni Diller (University of Birmingham)

Foundational Beliefs and Persuading with Humor: Reflections Inspired by Reid and Kierkegaard
Daniel Johnson (Baylor University) and Adam Pelser (Baylor University)

Chair: Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen)

Melville Room:

Reid’s Inheritance in the Discussion between Stewart and Prevost about Mathematical Evidence
Claire Etchegaray

Thomas Reid's Orations and Aberdeen graduation theses of the early 18th century
Giovanni Gellera (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Alexander Stewart (University of Aberdeen)

 

12pm Lunch

Carnegie Room

 

1pm - 3pm Concurrent Sessions 7

Senate Room:

Coherence and the Justificatory Role of Theism in Reid’s Epistemology
Gregory Poore (Baylor University)

Thomas Reid’s Singular Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction
Christopher Shrock (Baylor University)

Chair: Paul Wood (University of Victoria, Canada)

Turnbull Room:

James Mylne (1757-1839): an early Scottish critic of Thomas Reid
Stephen Cowley (New College, University of Edinburgh)

Thomas Reid on the plurality of worlds: its Scottish contexts and beyond
Schinichi Nagao (University of Nagoya)

Chair: Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen)

Melville Room:

Instinctive exertions and the conception of power
Chris Lindsay (University of Glasgow)

Reid on the Moral Faculty
Keith Lehrer (Santa Clara University)

Chair: Jamie Hellewell (University of British Columbia)

 

3pm Tea and coffee

Carnegie Room

 

3.30 - 5.30pm Concurrent Sessions 8

Senate Room:

Reid on Acquired Perception
Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark College)

Four Questions About Acquired Perception
James Van Cleve (University of Southern California)

Chair: Todd Buras (Baylor University)

Turnbull Room:

On the Influence of Hutcheson and Butler on Reid's Classification of the Principles of Action
Christian Maurer (Université Blaise Pascal)

Two Worlds? Gesture and Speech in
Thomas Reid and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Alex South (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Knud Haakonssen (University of Sussex)

Melville Room:

Thomas Reid and Max Scheler on Vanity: A Test-Case for Intuitionism
Graham McAleer (Loyola University, Maryland)

Morality and Motivation in the Essays on the Active Powers
Richard Stalley (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Elaine Engelhardt (Utah Valley University)

 

6pm Municipal Reception

Glasgow City Chambers

 

Friday 26 March

9.15am Tea and coffee

Carnegie Room

9.45 - 11.45am Concurrent Sessions 9

Senate Room:

Thomas Reid and the Intellectual Powers of Children
Jessica van der Schalk (Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam)

An Inconsistency in Reid’s Construal of the Power of Conception
Marina Folescu (University of Southern California)

Chair: Michael S Pritchard (Western Michigan University)

Turnbull Room:

Reid, Kant and Sellars on the Role of Sensation in Perception
Lucas Thorpe (University of St Andrews)

The Intentionality Of Perceptual Consciousness In Reid And Hume
David R. Raynor (University of Ottawa)

Chair: Chris Lindsay (University of Glasgow)

Melville Room:

Reid's Discovery of the Sense of Balance
David Vender (University of Tasmania)

In the Mind without an Object: Reid on Sensation and the Mark of the Mental
Laura Keating (Hunter College / CUNY)

Chair: Alexander Broadie (University of Glasgow)

 

12pm Lunch

Carnegie Room

 

1 - 3pm Concurrent Sessions 10

Senate Room:

Reid and Pragmatism (old and new)
Patrick Rysiew (University of Victoria, Canada)

Reid on “The Theory of Morals,” “Moral Systems,” and Practical Ethics: Lessons for Teaching Practical and Professional Ethics?
Elaine Engelhardt (Utah Valley University)

Chair: Sabine Kraus (EHESS-Paris)

Turnbull Room:

Thomas Reid’s “Seeds of Moral Discernment”
Michael S Pritchard (Western Michigan University)

Thomas Reid on Physical Causation
Jamie Hellewell (University of British Columbia)

Chair: Knud Haakonssen (University of Sussex)

 

3pm Tea and coffee

Carnegie Room

 

3.30 - 5pm Plenary Session 4

Senate Room:

A Virtuoso Reader: Thomas Reid and the Practices of Reading in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Paul Wood (University of Victoria, Canada)

Chair: Knud Haakonssen (University of Sussex)

 

5 - 5.30pm Closing remarks and review

Senate Room

Alexander Stewart (University of Aberdeen)

 

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