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“Human Nature, Human Mind” is a series of lectures and conferences at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem marking the publication of the first complete Hebrew editions of Hobbes’ Leviathan (2009) and Hume’s Treatise on Human Nature (2010) by Shalem Press. The series explores the history of the “human nature tradition” in philosophy, which saw the empirical study of human nature as foundational—not only with respect to morals, political theory, and aesthetics, but also in relation to mathematics, logic, natural science, and religion as well. In addition, we ask whether the human nature in philosophy has been rendered obsolete by contemporary cognitive science; or whether this tradition still has something significant to contribute to philosophy and to the natural sciences.
Events in this series:
December 14-17, 2009 - Conference on “The Human Nature Tradition in Anglo-Scottish Philosophy: Its History and Future Prospects” Click here for video of remarks of conference organizers Click here for video of lectures presented at the conference
October 12-13, 2009 – Eric Schliesser, Leiden University, The Netherlands Seminar: “Hume’s Invention of Philosophical Traditions” Public Lecture: “Spinoza and Hume: Two Critiques of Natural Science”
July 13-14, 2009 - Tamar Szabo Gendler, Philosophy, Yale University. Seminar: “On the Regulation of Habit: from Aristotle to Hume and Beyond“ Public Lecture: “What Philosophers Got Right about Human Nature“
May 18-19, 2009 - Alfred I. Tauber, Philosophy and Medicine, Boston University. Seminar: “Freud, Brentano, and the Quandary of Psychic Cause“ Public Lecture: “Freud the Reluctant Philosopher“
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