Invisible Hand Seminar

Reappraising the Scottish Moralists and Civil Society

Saturday, September 16, 2017 4:00 PM to 5:45 PM EDT
Buchanan Hall, D180

FALL 2017:

Funding provided in part by the John Templeton Foundation through a grant from the Institute for Humane Studies.

Saturday September 16:                                             

EVENT COSPONSOR: Templeton/IHS

Richard Boyd, Georgetown University:

Reappraising the Scottish Moralists and Civil Society,” chapter 3 of his book Uncivil Society: The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Lexington Books, 2004).

 

Saturday September 30:                                             

EVENT COSPONSOR: Templeton/IHS

Erik Matson, George Mason University:

“Hume’s Way of Reasonableness in Epistemology and in Political Economy”

 

Saturday October 14:                                                 

EVENT COSPONSOR: Templeton/IHS

Alberto Mingardi, Instituto Bruno Leoni:

“Thomas Hodgskin and the Industrial Revolution”

 

Saturday November 11:                                             

EVENT COSPONSOR: Templeton/IHS

James Otteson, Wake Forest University:

“Adam Smith’s Libertarian Paternalism”

 

Saturday December 2:                                               

EVENT COSPONSOR: Templeton/IHS

Ryan Hanley, Marquette University:

Love’s Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity – Chapter 4: Smith on Sympathy.

 

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