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‘The Philosophy of Adam Smith’
A conference to commemorate Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
Balliol College
Day 1: Tuesday 6 Jan 2009
Conference registration: 11:00 till 2.00. JCR Common room
12.30 - 2:00 |
Lunch. Grand Hall |
2.15 - 3.30 |
Plenary I :
Lecture room |
Introduction: Vivienne Brown
D.D. Raphael, “The Virtue of TMS 1759” |
3:35 - 4:10 |
Tea/Coffee. JCR Common room |
4:15 - 5:45 |
Session 1 |
a) Reading the Book as a Whole
Chair: Sam Fleischacker
Lecture room
Neven Leddy, “TMS in 1759, 1790, and 1976”
Robert Mankin, “Smith and the Art of Dying”
b) Smith and Rousseau
Chair: Charles Griswold
OCR Dining room
Jonathan Rick, “The Impartial Spectator’s Amour-Propre”
Lauren Brubaker, “Smith’s Moderate Response to Rousseau”
c) The Evolutionary Strand in Smith
Chair: Vivienne Brown
Massey room
Toni Vogel Carey, “Accounting for Moral as for Natural Things”
Jeffrey Young, “Justice, Property, and Markets
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| 6:30 |
Opening of Exhibition in the Chapel on Adam Smith’s time at Balliol College.
Exhibition compiled by John Jones, Senior Fellow, and Anna Sander, Lonsdale Curator, Balliol College. |
Followed by drinks reception 'hosted by Routledge'. OCR Ante room |
7:30 |
Dinner. Grand Hall
After-dinner talk by Ian Simpson Ross, “Adam Smith at Balliol” |
Day 2: Wednesday 7 Jan 2009
9:00 - 10:15 |
Plenary II : Lecture room |
Introduction: Charles Griswold
Stephen Darwall, “Smith on Honor and Self-Respect |
10:20 - 10:55 |
Tea/Coffee. JCR Common room |
11:00 - 1:00 |
Session 2 |
d) Meta-Ethics
Chair: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Lecture room
Patricio Fernandez and Nicholas Teh, “Smith and McDowell on Moral Objectivity”
Robert Urquhart, “Individuality and the Paradox of Sympathy”
Patrick Frierson, “Smithian Intrinsic Value”
e) Kantian and Hegelian Readings of TMS
Chair: Fonna Forman-Barzilai
OCR Dining room
Remy Debes, “The Value of Persons in Smith’s Moral Philosophy”
Tom Ford, “Reification and Adam Smith’s ‘As it were’”
Angelica Nuzzo, “The Standpoint of Morality in Adam Smith and Hegel |
| 1:00 - 2:10 |
Lunch. Grand Hall |
| 2:15 - 4:15 |
Session 3 |
f) Smith and Ancient Philosophy
Chair: Doug Den Uyl
Lecture room
Gloria Vivenza, “Cicero and Seneca in TMS”
Eric Schliesser, “Smith’s Engagement with Plato’s Laws”
Thornton Lockwood, “Moral Education in Aristotle and Adam Smith”
g) Foundations of Smith’s Ethics
Chair: Alice MacLachlan
OCR Dining room
Christel Fricke, “Moral Norms: Conventions or Universal Principles?”
Maria Alejandra Carrasco, “The Double Meaning of Self-Command”
Spiros Tegos, “The Problem of Authority in Smith”
h) TMS and Aesthetics
Chair: Kathyrn Sutherland
Massey room
Maureen Harkin, “Smith on Literature”
Arby Ted Siraki, “Adam Smith’s Theory of Tragedy”
Emily Brady, “Nature, Aesthetic Judgment, and Sympathetic Imagination” |
| 4:20 - 4:55 |
Tea/Coffee. JCR common room |
| 5:00 - 6:15 |
Plenary III : Lecture room |
Introduction: Stephen Darwall
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, “Is the Impartial Spectator’s Vision 20/20?” |
| 6:30 |
Viewing of Exhibition in the Chapel on Adam Smith’s time at Balliol |
7:30 |
Conference dinner. Grand Hall |
Day 3: Thursday 8 Jan 2009
9:00 - 10:15 |
Plenary IV : Lecture room |
Introduction: Sam Fleischacker
Charles Griswold, “Tales of the Self: Adam Smith’s Response to Rousseau |
10:20 - 10:55 |
Tea/Coffee. JCR common room |
11:00 - 1:00 |
Session 4 |
i) TMS and Politics
Chair: Jacob Levy
OCR Dining room
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Smith’s Anti-Cosmopolitanism”
Alice MacLachlan, “Injustice, Entitlement, and Smithean Resentment”
Richard Boyd, “Smith and Nationalism”
j) Sympathy
Chair: Ryan Hanley
Lecture room
Andrew Terjesen, “Imagination or Correspondence in Smith’s ‘Sympathy’”
James McLellan and Karin Brown, “Sophie de Grouchy’s Translation of TMS”
Richard van den Berg, “PL Roederer’s Reading of Smith’s System of Sympath |
| 1:00 - 2:10 |
Lunch. Grand Hall |
| 2:15 - 4:15 |
Session 5 |
k) Self and Society
Chair: Eric Schliesser
Lecture room
John McHugh, “Hume and Smith: Sympathy, Utility and the Sociality of the Self”
Alvaro Santana-Acuña, “Outside the Self”
Roberto Scazzieri, “Social Mirrors: Reasoning and Co-ordination in Context”
l) Theology/Skepticism
Chair: Christopher Brooke
OCR Dining room
Paul Oslington, “Newton and Smith on Divine Action”
Sergio Cremaschi, “Adam Smith’s Post-Skepticism and His Unwritten Doctrines”
Ryan Hanley, “Smith’s Skepticism” |
| 4:20 - 4:55 |
Tea/Coffee. JCR common room |
| 5:00 - 6:15 |
Plenary V : Lecture room |
Introduction: Vivienne Brown
Emma Rothschild, “TMS and the Inner Life” |
7:30 |
Final dinner. Grand Hall |
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