David Hume in the 21st Century: Perpetuating the Enlightenment

FAIN: EH-267168-19

Portland State University (Portland, OR 97207-0751)
Angela M. Coventry (Project Director: February 2019 to January 2026)
Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (Co Project Director: August 2019 to January 2026)

A four-week institute for 30 college and university faculty on the Scottish thinker David Hume.

Hume in the 21st Century: Perpetuating the Enlightenment This Institute is designed to pursue intensive study of multidisciplinary perspectives on the work of eighteenth-century Enlightenment giant David Hume. In his time, Hume was an innovator in his application of the experimental method to many disciplines. This Institute will feature a rotating faculty of eminent scholars. While they will explore Hume’s impact in epistemology, ethics, history, and economics, a notable feature of this Institute is a treatment of the implication of Hume’s thought in non-traditional areas. Faculty will address Hume’s approach in relation to Eastern thought, the status of women (including early modern woman philosophers' responses to Hume), race, the status of animals, and the environment. Participants will come away with an expansive context and diverse resources to facilitate their own teaching and research projects on these themes. The Institute will also offer them a sample of the engagement of a