The European Enlightenment Project 1995-2000

Dr Eugene Heath, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, New Paltz
The Eighteenth-century Scots on the Unintended Emergence of Customs and Morals

Dr Ferenc Hörcher, Department of Aesthetics, Pázmany Péter Catholic University, Piliscaba
Was Hume a Conservative?

Dr Tomas Hlobil, Department of Aesthetics, Charles University
Palacky’s “History of Aesthetics”

Professor Emory L. Kemp, Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, West Virginia University
Links in a Chain: The Early Modern Suspension Bridge

Dr Udo Thiel, Department of Philosophy, Australian National University
Hume and the Eighteenth Century Debate about Personal Identity

Dr Andreea Deciu, Department of Literary Theory, University of Bucharest
Rites of Passage: Personal Identity and Travelling in the Enlightenment

Professor Andrew Skinner, Department of Political Economy, University of Glasgow
Adam Smith and the American Colonies

Dr Adam Chmielewski, Institute of Philosophy, University of Wroclaw
The Enlightenment’s Concept of the Individual and its Criticism

Dr Josef Moural, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague
Metaphilosophy in Hume’s first Enquiry

Dr Pepka Boyadjieva, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Rethinking the Social Role of the University of Edinburgh for Scottish Englightenment

Dr Paul Shore, Educational Studies, St Louis University
Cluj: A Jesuit oupost in Habsburg Transylvania, 1700-1773

Dr Stipe Kutleša, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
Boscovich in his Time and Today

Dr Catalin Avramescu, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki
The Theory of Social Contract and the Idea of Political Science in the Eighteenth Century

Dr John Sutton, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney
“Carelessness and In-Attention”: Chance and the Physiology of Habit from Locke to Hume

Dr Ock-Kyoung Kim, Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
The Concept of Individuality in Hegel and Adam Smith

Professor Giancarlo Carabelli, Insitute of Philosophy, University of Ferrara
Enlightenment and Anthropology: William Hamilton in Naples and Italian folk religion

Dr Andrés Lema-Hincapié, School of Philosophy, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Kant and the Holy Scriptures

Dr Timothy Engström, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Philosophy and Genre: Forming the Enlightened Community

Dr László Kontler, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest
The Wild and the Civilised: German Readings of William Robertson’s Views on European and
Non-European Civilisations

Dr Susanne Kord, Department of German, Georgetown University
Conceptualizing Kunst: Peasant Poets, Women Writers and Bourgeois Art in Eighteenth-Century
Germany and Britain

Professor Paul Wood, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Mind and Method: Mapping the Enlightenment “Science of Man”

Professor Thomas Olshewsky, University of Kentucky
Which Skepticism, Whose Morality?

Dr Karen O’Brien, University of Wales, Cardiff
The Imperial Newton: Poetry and the British Empire in the 18th Century

Dr Glynis Ridley, University of Huddersfield
What “Special Relationship”? British Nationhood and American Nationalism, 1762-1783

Professor Kenneth Johnston, Indiana University
From Hidden Wordsworth to Hidden Republicans

M. Jean-Pierre Gross – Brussels
From Necker to Robespierre: Liberal Egalitarians and the Market Economy

Professor John Renwick – University of Edinburgh
Enlightened…and then Disabused: “Philosophes” into Counter-Revolutionaries

Dr Glynis Ridley – University of Huddersfield
Cicero as victim of the Terror: the use and abuse of classical rhetoric in Revolutionary France

Professor David Kimbell, University of Edinburgh
Was Beethoven enlightened?: reflections on three Beethoven symphonies

Professor Ann Thomson – University of Caen
Eighteenth Century Materialism: Problems and Perspectives

Dr Graeme Garrard – University of Wales, Cardiff
The Counter-Enlightenment of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Professor Stephen Brown – Champlain College, Trent University
Ah kent his faether: William Smellie and Getting Ahead in Enlightenment Edinburgh

Professor Marian Hobson – Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Why did Hegel like Diderot’s “Neveu de Rameau”

Professor Peter Jones – Director, IASH
Hume and Friends on Architecture, Taste and the Design Argument

Professor Marian Hobson – Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Diderot and Implicit Knowledge: Analogy and Architecture

Dr Marian Kempny – Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Rise of Anthropological Theory of Culture

Professor John Renwick – Department of French, The University of Edinburgh
Voltaire and the Morangies case (1772-1773) or The Theory of Probability as applied to evidence

Dr Alistair Mason – University of Leeds
The Sentimental Beauties of Blair

Professor Dr Horst Dreitzel – Bielefeld University
A Strange Marriage: Pufendorf’s Natural Jurisprudence and Protestant Moral Philosophy in the Early Enlightenment (Barbeyrac, Burlamaqui, Carmichael)

Professor M.A. Stewart – Lancaster University
The Eighteenth Century Curriculum

Dr Udo Thiel – Australian National University
Identity through Change. Materialism and Personal Identity in Eighteenth Century Philosophy

Dr Geoffrey Sweet – Anglia Polytechnic University
Goethe and the German Anti-Enlightenment

Dr John Cairns – University of Edinburgh
Legal Theory and Legal Practice in the Scottish Enlightenment

Professor Charles McKean – University of Dundee
How Physical Form Affected the Enlightenment

Professor Dr Diethelm Klippel – Justus Liebig, Giessen
Luxury and the State in 18th Century Germany

Dr Martin Fitzpatrick – University College of Wales
The Enlightened Patriotism of Richard Price: Some further reflections

Professor Samuel Fleischacker – Williams College
Adam Smith on Self-Interest: Re-reading the “Wealth of Nations”

Dr Nicholas Phillipson – University of Edinburgh
Politeness, Sociability and the Science of Man; Adam Smith in Context

The Sciences and the Enlightenment

Dr Richard Yeo – Griffith University, Australia
Enlightenment Science and the Encyclopedias: Reflections on England and Scotland

Professor W.H. Barber – Oxford
Voltaire and Natural Science: Apples and Fossils

Professor M.A. Stewart – Lancaster University
Rational Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment

Professor Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario
Scots Doctors in America, 1685-1800