The first M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History

Dugald Stewart in the 21st Century

In honour of Knud Haakonssen

Room 104, Philosophy, Edgecliffe,
The Scores, St Andrews.

24-25 October 2024.

To register please contact James Harris
E-mail:
jah15@st-andrews.ac.uk

Final date for registration: 17 October

 

1.45 - 2.00: Welcome (James Harris and Richard Whatmore)

2.00 - 3.00: Brad Bow (Aberdeen): "Dugald Stewart's empire of the mind"

3.00 - 4.00: Jennifer Marušić (Edinburgh): "Stewart on human nature"

4.00 - 4.30: Tea and coffee

4.30 - 5.30: Knud Haakonssen (St. Andrews and Copenhagen):
"From Dugald Stewart to Sandy Stewart: My path towards a historiography of natural law"

7.00: Dinner

Thursday 24 October

9.30 - 12.00: Roundtable on the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Dugald Stewart

Introduction by Knud Haakonssen (General Editor)

Editor presentations by Thomas Ahnert, Knud Haakonssen, Bill Jenkins, Emanuele Levi Mortera, Anna Plassart, Felix Waldmann, Ryan Walter, Lina Weber, and Richard Whatmore

12.00 - 1.00: Lunch

1.00 - 3.00: Themes from the work of Knud Haakonssen:

Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh): “Antiquarianism and Moral Science in the Thought of Samuel Pufendorf”

Xiao Qi (St Andrews): “Custom and Agreement: Hume's Twofold Account of the History of Justice”

James Harris (St Andrews): “A Filmerian Theme in Adam Smith’s Political Thought”

Richard Whatmore (St Andrews): “Knud Haakonssen and Intellectual History”

Friday 25 October