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Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

23rd October 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 24th October 2025 @ 5:00 pm

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”

5.00-6.00 Signy Gutnick Allen (Zurich): ‘Hutcheson and Smith on Justice and Compassion’

6.00-6.30 A toast to the Liberty Fund edition of Hutcheson’s

Friday 24 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 Emily Brady (Texas A&M): “Hutcheson, Formal Beauty, and Imagination”

3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee

4.00-5.00 Aaron Garrett (Boston University): “Cutting Hutcheson’s Gordian Knot, and Modern Moral Philosophy”

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  • Start: 23rd October 2025 @ 1:30 pm
  • End: 24th October 2025 @ 5:00 pm
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