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Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy at Princeton2012 Spring Workshop From Sympathy to Empathy : Hume and Beyond Erdman Conference Center Princeton, March 2nd - 4th 2012 The concept of sympathy/empathy/fellow-feeing/sociability is key to the Scottish Enlightenment philosophers’ response to the egoism of Hobbes and Mandeville. It makes a striking appearance in the work of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Ferguson, yet each approach the matter in slightly different ways. This workshop follows a conference organized in 2011 by The Centre for Ethics at the University of Antwerp. Plenary speakers include Michael Frazer (Harvard). Emily Brady (Edinburgh and Princeton) and Willem Lemmons (Antwerp). The CSSP and Antwerp invite paper proposals on any aspect of the theme – including contemporary philosophical treatments of sympathy and empathy. Proposals should be no more than 500 words and submitted as email attachments to cssp@ptsem.edu by 1st December 2011. Decisions will be notified by early January 2012.
CSSP Princeton Seminary Bicentenary Conference on Scottish Philosophy, Common Sense and Natural Law in America. 6th - 9th September 2011 From 1750 to 1850, ethics and education in North America was powerfully influenced by the Scottish philosophical tradition. A major channel of this influence was John Witherspoon, President of the College of New Jersey and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, whose Lectures on Moral Philosophy to the students at Princeton provided a model for the colleges across the emerging United States to emulate. Drawing on Francis Hutcheson and the Protestant natural law tradition, Witherspoon and his successor Samuel Stanhope Smith established Scottish philosophy, and especially Thomas Reid’s philosophy of Common Sense, as a major influence on the development of American intellectual life. Princeton Theological Seminary celebrates the 200th anniversary of its foundation in 2012. By the inclusion of this conference in the bicentenary program the Seminary aims to sponsor an intellectual event that will investigate, and at the same time celebrate a key element of the academic and religious context in which Princeton Seminary was founded. Its further purpose is to explore the continuing relevance and future role of a philosophical tradition grounded in Protestant natural law. There will be keynote lectures by leading scholars in the field, as well as space for submitted paper proposals. A further feature of the program (on Saturday 8th Sept) will be a combination of lectures and panel discussion open to members of the public, on the contemporary relevance of the conference theme. For full details of the program, call for papers and registration visit the conference website From Scottish Philosophy Conferences and Events to IASP homepage |