Preliminary programme ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Programme (update 26. 8. 2015) Passions and the origin of moral institutions and civil society:  British debate from Thom Smith Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, 2 – 5 September 2015 Day 1 – Day 3: Lecture room 1034 (Aula), Jinonice. Day 4: Lecture room 1035, Jinonice. Day 1 (2 September) 16:30 – 17:30   Registration and Coffee 17:30 – 17:40 Welcomes and conference agenda. 17:40 – 19:10 Opening lecture Opening lecture chair: Tomáš Marvan (Czech Academy of Sciences) 17:40 – 18:40 James A. Harris (University of St Andrews):  David Hume: The Philosopher as Letters. 18:40 – 19:00 Discussion 19:10 – 22:30 Tour and Dinner (optional) Day 2 (3 September) 9:00 – 12:40 Thomas Hobbes Panel Panel chair: Marina Barabas (Czech Academy of Sciences) 9:00 – 10:00 Dirk Brantl (University of Graz) Passions, virtues, and political education. 10:00 – 10:20 Discussion 10.20 – 10.40 Coffee break 10:40 – 11:10 Milan Hanyš (Charles University): Desire and civil society. 11:10 – 11:20 Discussion 11:20 – 11:50 Jiří Chotaš (Czech Academy of Sciences): State of nature and establishing a Hobbes 11:50 – 12:00 Discussion 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 17:50 Bernard Mandeville Panel Panel chair: Marek Skovajsa (Charles University) 14:00 – 15:00 Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki): Private vices, public benefits revis Mandeville's intellectual development 15:00 – 15:20 Discussion 15:20 – 15:40 Coffee Break 15:40 – 17:00  Reading Mandeville (Mikko Tolonen) Mandeville readings download (Mikko Tolonen´s compilation including emphasis on the confer https://goo.gl/5hBZdN 15:40 – 16:20 Reading Mandeville (Part 1) 16:20 – 17:00 Reading Mandeville (Part 2) 17:00 – 17:20 Break 17:20 – 17:50 Miroslav Vacura (Prague University of Economics): Mandeville's concept of pr 17:50 – 18:00 Discussion 18:00 – 22.00 Walk and Dinner (optional) Day 3 (4 September) 9:00 – 12:40 David Hume Panel Panel chair: James Hill (Charles University) 9:00 – 10:00 James A. Harris (University of St Andrews): Hume on Reason, Passion, and the Nature of Enlightenment. 10:00 – 10:20 Discussion 10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break 10:40 – 11:10 Tomáš Kunca (Charles University):  Passions and “Disease of Learned”:  an Ev ´s Letter to a Physician. 11:10 – 11:20  Discussion 11:20 – 11:50 Zuzana Parusniková (Czech Academy of Sciences): The Pyrrhonian link. 11:50 – 12:00  Discussion 12:00 – 12.30 Stanislav Synek (Charles University):  Who is the Judge? Some remarks on Hum moral judgement. 12:30 – 12.40 Discussion 12.40 – 14.00 Lunch 14:00 – 16:40 Adam Smith Panel Panel chair: David Lipka (Anglo-American University) 14:00 – 15:00 Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University): Adam Smith on What Is Wrong with Econom 15:00 – 15:20 Discussion 15.20 – 15:40 Coffee Break 15.40 – 16.20 Tomáš Sedlacek (Charles University): Adam Smith and the History of Invisible 16:20 – 16:40 Discussion 16:40 – 17:20 Sandwich and Drinks 17:20 – 22:10 Mozart Extra (optional) Panel chair: TBA 17:20 – 17:50 Jakub Marek (Charles University): Leporello: a catalogue of passions. 17:50 – 18:00 Discussion 19.00 – 22.10  W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni (The Estates Theatre Prague) 22.30 – 23.30 Dinner and/or Drinks 19:00 – 23:00 Adam Smith Dinner hosted by David Lipka (optional) Day 4 (5 September) 10:00 – 12:00 Edited volume agenda (authors meet authors, and publisher meets authors), le 13:00 – 15:00   Lunch   15:00 – 19:00 Tour guided by Roman Zaoral (Dept. of History, Charles University)      Additional information: Registration, conference info point, coffee/tea breaks, signing for dinners and lunches, a papers exhibition  will be held  at “Studentská místnost” (Students Common Room) just firs to conference lecture room (1034).  It will be open from 16:00 to 17:30 in Day 1, 8:00 – 9 10:40, 12:00 – 14:00,  15:20 – 15:40, and 17:00 – 17:20 in Day2, 8:00 – 9:00, 10:20 – 10:4 15:20 – 15:40, and 16:40 – 17:20 in Day 3, and 9:00 – 10:00 in Day 4. Optional conference lunches (3 – 4 September): will be served in a newly refurbished resta Nová hospoda www.novahospoda.eu [ URL "http://www.novahospoda.eu"] in a walking distance f theatre (10 minutes), no preference (a very good Czech /international cuisine) or vegetari for a menu including drink is 110,- CZK and you may pay in restaurant. Optional conference informal dinners (2 – 4 September): Tři století  (Three Centuries) - a restaurant in the very centre of Prague close to Charles Bridge http://www.tristoleti.cz/i [ URL "http://www.tristoleti.cz/index.php?lang=en"] Optional night in opera (4 September):  19:00, Mozart, Don Giovanni, The Estates Theatre.  on theatre here: http://www.narodni-divadlo.cz/en/estates-theatre [ URL "http://www.narodn en/estates-theatre"] , information and booking here: http://www.narodni-divadlo.cz/en/show t=2015-09-04-19-00 , ticket sales information here: http://www.narodni-divadlo.cz/en/ticke started on 15 June. Conference organizer already  booked 21 tickets for keynotes, chairs a Optional Lunch  (5 September, 13.00 – 15:00) will be announced and open for signing on Wed Lunch is followed by a “guided tour” thanks to kind assistance of Roman Zaoral, Department Conference keynote speakers, chairs and speakers Opening lecture and David Hume Panel keynote lecture are delivered by James A. Harris (Uni St Andrews), the author of Of liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Ce Philosophy (OUP, 2005), the editor and contributor to The Oxford Handbook of British Philo Eighteenth Century (OUP, 2013), the co-editor with Aaron Garrett of Scottish Philosophy in Century, Volume 1 (OUP, 2015),  the author of forthcoming Hume: An Intellectual Biography September 2015; see http://www.cambridge.org/cz/academic/subjects/philosophy/history-philo intellectual-biography?format=HB [ URL "http://www.cambridge.org/cz/academic/subjects/phil philosophy/hume-intellectual-biography?format=HB"] ), and  the author of many articles on Ried, Beattie, Priestly, and various themes in eighteenth century British philosophy. Full http://www.standrews.ac.uk/philosophy/dept/staffprofiles/?staffid=103 [ URL "http://www.st philosophy/dept/staffprofiles/?staffid=103"] .  Opening lecture is chaired by Tomáš Marvan (Czech Academy of Sciences), the author of a ne translation and historical introduction to David Hume´s Dialogues Concerning Natural Relig research is focused both on early-modern philosophy (Descartes and Hume) and contemporary mind, language and neuroscience, and analytical ontology.  He is the author of  The Questi Paths of Analytical Philosophy of Language (Otázka významu. Cesty analytické filosofie jaz Togga, 2010, and Realism and Relativism (Realismus a relativismus), Prague: Academia, 2014 David Hume Panel is chaired by James Hill (Charles University), the author of monograph De Doubting Mind (London: Bloomsbury, 2012), the co-editor (with Gordon Graham)  of Hume afte special issue of Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 10:2, autumn 2012, where he published an Hume Became "The New Hume": A Developmental Approach', the co-editor (with P. Glombíček) o Concept of Mind in Early-Modern Philosophy (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010), the author of Secondary Qualities’ and ‘Scholasticism’ in The Continuum Companion to Locke (2010), ‘The Empiricism and Innatism in Berkeley’s Doctrine of Notions’, in Berkeley Studies, no. 21, 2 Qualities, Secondary Qualities and Locke’s Impulse Principle‘, in The British Journal of t Philosophy, 17 (1), etc. Full CV see here: http://ufar.ff.cuni.cz/8/doc-james-hill-phd [ U ufar.ff.cuni.cz/8/doc-james-hill-phd"] . David Hume Panel speakers:  Zuzana Parusniková (Czech Academy of Sciences): presently working on a new book on Hume´s English) and published articles on Hume: "Hume´s Scepticism Revisited" (Philosophy, Volume "Skepticismus a Fideismus. Montaigne a Hume." (Scepticism and Fideism. Montaigne and Hume) časopis (Philosophical Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1), “David Hume a věda o člověku” (David Hume of Man), Teorie vědy ( Theory of Science). Roč. 33, 1, etc. Tomáš Kunca (Charles University): ongoing research is focused primarily on various aspects “philosophical anthropology”, as initially outlined in his Ph.D. thesis Humanist virtuoso: idea and illustrations of experimental philosophical anthropology in Hume´s Treatise (CU, their Mandevillian contexts.  In 2010 published an article “Hume´s ideas of philosophy as analysis of time” and 2011 presented a paper on “Hume´s Letter to a Physician (1734): A te beginnings of his philosophy and the road to Treatise” (not yet published) and gave a “Hum Lecture” (Faculty of Humanities). He is going to chair a session on 42nd International Hum Conference in Stockholm (July 2015).  Stanislav Synek (Charles University): present research in the history of ethics including from an Aristotelian perspective. Published two monographs in Czech: Duše jako místo dění pojetí (lidské) duše u Aristotela (Soul as a Place of the World-coming-into-being. A Study Conception of the Soul), Prague, Togga 2014, and Lidská přirozenost jako úkol člověka. Fil interpretace Etiky Níkomachovy (Human Nature as a Man’s Task. Philosophical Interpretation Ethics), Prague, Togga 2011. Thomas Hobbes Panel keynote lecture is given by Dirk Brantl (University of Graz). Our Hobb presented papers ´Hobbes on Duties Artificial and Natural´ in 2012 (Symposion „Hobbes: Pol Philosophy“, King’s College, London) and ´Hobbes on Contempt´(Workshop: „Hobbes and the Pa University of Amsterdam) and his forthcoming articles are  “Moral ohne Freiheit. Thomas Ho und Determinismus” and “Thomas Hobbes’ Three Central Goods: Felicity, Self-Preservation, P lectures: 29.05.2014: Smith and Mandeville on Luxury and Growth (18th ESHET Conference, La 06.06.2014: “So much noise in the world”: Adam Smith on Mandeville (Mandeville Conference, Universität, Rotterdam), 13.11.2014: Zwischen Hobbes und Aristoteles: Spinoza über die pol des Menschen (Symposion „Ordnung in der Gemeinschaft. Zur Wirkungsgeschichte der antiken P Philosophie“, KarlFranzens-Universität Graz), 20.04.2015: Systematic Coherence in Hobbes ( Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe „Philosophy Seminar“, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz). Full CV http://www.uni-graz.at/dirk.brantl/site.php?show=1 [ URL "http://www.uni-graz.at/dirk.bran show=1"] . Thomas Hobbes Panel is chaired by Marina Barbas (Czech Academy of Sciences). She received at King's College, University of London, dissertation title: Morality and Praxis (adviser Winch), contributed to the Czech translation (with J. Chotaš, Z. Masopust) of T. Hobbes, L Oikoumenh, 2009) and published numerous articles like  'In Search of Goodness', in: Cordne Philosophy, Ethics and Common Humanity, London, Routledge, 2011, pp. 82-105 Full CV see he racionalita.flu.cas.cz/en/people/marina-barabas-phd-en [ URL "http://racionalita.flu.cas.c marina-barabas-phd-en"] Thomas Hobbes Panel speakers: Milan Hanyš (Charles University): research in history of ideas and political philosophy in Hobbes. His Ph.D. thesis Apostle Paul and Philosophy: A study to political theology and it in contemporary philosophy (CU, 2014) has already been published as a book in Czech, co-or workshop (with Prof. Johann P. Arnason) Religion and Politics, paper (in Czech) on “Monoth and religious intolerance: Remarks on Jan Assmann’s thesis”, etc.   Jiří Chotaš (Czech Academy of Sciences):  research in modern political philosophy, includi Rousseau, Kant and Hegel. Contributed to the Czech translation (with M. Barabas and Z. Mas Hobbes, Leviathan (Praha: Oikoumenh, 2009) and published articles like “Thomas Hobbes. Nat Liberties of Subjects? (in Czech), in: Havlíček, A. (ed.), Lidská a přirozená práva v ději Labem: FF UJEP), pp. 95-110. Full CV see here: http://racionalita.flu.cas.cz/en/chotas/jir [ URL "http://racionalita.flu.cas.cz/en/chotas/jiri-chotas-ph-d-en"] Bernard Mandeville Panel keynote lecture is given by Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki of  Mandeville and Hume: anatomists of civil society (Oxford: SVEC, 2013) and articles lik Paris and the Treatise” (Hume Studies, Volume 34, Number 1, April 2008), or “The Gothic Or Modern Civility: Mandeville and the Scots on Courage” (Journal of Scottish Philosophy, Vol 1 Spring 2014), etc. Recently published with James A. Harris  chapter on “Hume in and out context” (Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1, OUP, 2015). For more in see: http://helsinki.academia.edu/MikkoTolonen [ URL "http://helsinki.academia.edu/MikkoTo Bernard Mandeville Panel chair, Marek Skovajsa (Charles University), is the former editor- of Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review. He has published the monographs Politic [Political Culture], Prague: Charles University Press, 2006, Struktury významu [Structures Prague: Sociological Publishers, 2013, the article „Independent and Broader Civil Society European Democratizations.“ Taiwan Journal of Democracy 4, 2, 2008: 47-73 and other articl reviewed journals or edited volumes. For more publications see: http://cuni.academia.edu/M "http://cuni.academia.edu/MSkovajsa"] Bernard Mandeville Panel speaker: Miroslav Vacura (UEP): research in the fields of  ethics, political philosophy and logic, article on “Ethical theory of Francis Hutcheson” (2011) and co-edited two editions of Intr Philosophy of Society and History (2011, 2014) and 2 volumes of Political  philosophy – Se (2007, 2009). Adam Smith Panel keynote lecture is delivered by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University), the monographs: The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rouss State University Press, 2008), The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of H Montesquieu, and Voltaire (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and articles: "Does 'Betteri Really Make Us Better Off?: Adam Smith on Progress and Happiness", American Political Scie (August 2006): 309-18, "Adam Smith and Rousseau: Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment," Handbook of Adam Smith, ed. Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli, and Craig Smith (Ox University Press, 2013): 54-76, etc. He is currently working on a book on the friendship a David Hume and Adam Smith. For more and downloads see: http://ase.tufts.edu/polsci/faculty "http://ase.tufts.edu/polsci/faculty/rasmussen/"] . Adam Smith Panel chair is David Lipka (Anglo-American University).  His research interests Smithian political economy, institutional change, theory of social orders, economics and e philosophy of economics.  He is a referee for Journal des Economistes et Etudes Humaines, časopis (Czech Journal of Philosophy), Prague Papers on Political Economy, and European Jo Comparative Economics. In 2015 has published a chapter “Do Economists Need Virtues?” in Vi Entrepreneurship (Ratio, 2015), in 2013 “The Max U Approach: Prudence Only, or Not Even Pr Smithian Perspective” (Econ Journal Watch, 2013, 10 (1): 2–14), etc. Since May 2015 is Act Anglo-American University in Prague.  Adam Smith Panel speaker: Tomáš Sedláček (Charles University): research in the field of Theoretical Economics (Histo Thought), Philosophy and Ethics. Published numerous articles like “Economic Re-Boot and Su (St. Gallen Business Review, 2013), “From Economics to Humanomics” (Global Alliance for Ba 2013), “Unbearable Lightness of Economy” (New York Times, 2013),  and a monograph Economic Evil (OUP, 2011). Since 2013 is acting as a Council Member to World Economic Forum and a M Narrative of Europe. Mozart Extra speaker: Jakub Marek (Charles University) is the author of forthcoming book (September 2015) entitl and analyzing Don Juan (Don Giovanni) anthropological myth as exposed in famous Mozart´s o Leporello´s “catalogue of passions”.  His research is focused on philosophical anthropolog Kierkegaard. Papers given to international conferences like: May 2012, Denmark, University and S. Kierkegaard Research Centre, konference: „Kierkegaards Late Upbuilding Discourses“. „Repentance and the Woman who was a Sinner“, April 2013, Canada, Toronto, Trinity College, Toronto. Conference: “Personages, Objects and Places in Kierkegaard’s Thought: Why or How paper: “Johannes, John, and Juan: On Kierkegaard’s Obsession with the Name Johannes”, and Denmark, University of Copenhagen and S. Kierkegaard Research Centre. Conference: “Kierkeg in a Global World”, Jubilee Congress. Paper: “The Tuning of Existence: On Moods and the Te of Existence in Kierkegaard”. ****************************************************************************************** * ******************************************************************************************