The 2nd M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History
Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of
Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Philosophy, Edgecliffe,
The Scores, St Andrews.
23-24 October 2025.
To register please contact James Harris
E-mail: jah15@st-andrews.ac.uk
Final date for registration: 17 October
9.00-10.00 Xiao Qi (Nankai): "Hutcheson on Moral Obligation and its Relations to Virtue and Right"
10.00-11.00 Michael Gill (Edinburgh): "The Authority of Morality, and Kant’s Disagreement with Hutcheson"
11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee
11.30-12.30 Ryan Hanley (Boston College): "Hutcheson on Love and Disinterestedness"
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.30 Dale Dorsey (Oxford): "That Peculiar Relation: Friendship and Fellowship in Shaftesbury and Hutcheson"
2.30-3.30 Signy Gutnick Allen (Zurich): 'Hutcheson and Smith on Justice and Compassion'
3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee
4.00-5.00 Aaron Garrett (Boston University): "Cutting Hutcheson’s Gordian Knot, and Modern Moral Philosophy"
Thursday 23 October
1.30-2.30 Elizabeth Radcliffe (William and Mary): "Moral Epistemology in Hutcheson’s Inquiry"
2.30-3.30 Michael Walschots (Milan): "Hutcheson on Desire: A Reappraisal"
3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee
4.00-5.00 Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh): "Hutcheson’s Sentimentalist Voluntarism"
5.00-5.30 A toast to the Liberty Fund edition of Hutcheson’s A System of Moral Philosophy