Friday, September 5

09:15 Simone Zurbuchen: Welcome and Introduction

10:00 Knud Haakonssen (Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Erfurt): Samuel Pufendorf’s concept of personhood

11:30 Michael J. Seidler (Western Kentucky University): Whose dignity, which esteem, what respect?

14:15 Lisa Broussois (Université de Lausanne): Francis Hutcheson and the politics of moral sense (presentation of PhD thesis)

15:00 James Moore (professor emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal): The Pyrrhonian controversy and the passions in Crousaz, Hutcheson and Hume

16:30 James A. Harris (University of St. Andrews): Hume on self-esteem and esteem of the rich and powerful

Saturday, September 6

09:15 Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco): Hume on love, esteem, respect and admiration

10:30 Remy Debes (University of Memphis): Passionate Persons: enlightened conceptions of human dignity before Kant

11:30 Roundtable Discussion on methodologies (Christian Maurer, Université de Fribourg)