Sociability and the Science of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment: themes from the work of Nicholas Phillipson (1937-2018); Edinburgh, 1 – 2 March
Sociability and the Science of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment: themes from the work of Nicholas Phillipson (1937-2018)
Playfair Library and Raeburn Room, Old College, University of Edinburgh, 1 – 2 March 2019
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Friday, 1 March (Playfair Library, Old College)
10.30 – 11.00 am: Tea and Coffee
11.00 – 11.15 am: Introduction
11.15 am – 12.15 pm: Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris), ‘Lord Monboddo’s “Ugly Tail”: Orangutans in Enlightenment Sciences of Man’
12.15 – 1.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 pm: Ryan Hanley (Marquette University), ‘The Human Good and the Science of Man’
3.30 – 4 pm: Tea and Coffee
4 – 5 pm: Robert Anderson (University of Edinburgh), ‘Nicholas Phillipson and University History’
Saturday, 2 March (Raeburn Room, Old College)
10.45 – 11.15 am: Tea and Coffee
11.15 am – 12.15 pm: Nicholas Phillipson as a teacher
12.15 – 1.15 pm: Lunch
1.15 – 2.15 pm: Nicholas Phillipson’s research: scholarship and sociability
2.15 – 2.30 pm: Concluding Remarks
This event is supported by the Scottish Philosophical Association, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Eighteenth-Century and Enlightenment Studies Network (ECENS), and the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History.