Conferences

Papers Presented in Conferences and Workshops (Selection since 2010)

2022

Traditionen religiöser Toleranz in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung (Kongress ‘Religiöse Toleranz’, University of Berne, May 2022)
Hommage to M.A. Stewart (BSHP Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, April 2022)

2021

La réception de Hobbes dans l’Ecosse du 17ème siècle (Workshop on Hobbes, Université Clermont-Auvergne, October 2021)
« Scruples in their Consciences » – Remarks on a Correction in Hutcheson’s Manuscript of the System (Workshop ‘New Perspectives on Hutcheson’s Moral Philosophy’, Universität Halle, June 2021)
Audition pour le poste de Professeur en Philosophie morale et politique (Sorbonne Université, April 2021)

2020

Imperfections, vices et corruptions. Les faiblesses humaines vues par la philosophie morale moderne et contemporaine (Soutenance d’habilitation, University Paris–1 Panthéon–Sorbonne, September 2020)
Sympathie et self-love chez Adam Smith (Zoom-Conference ‘Justice et intérêt dans la pensée d’Adam Smith’, University of Lausanne and Paris–1 Panthéon–Sorbonne, April 2020)
Lessons and Challenges from working on ‘Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis’ (Study day on my book Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis: Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy(EUP: 2019), Paris–1 Panthéon–Sorbonne, January 2020)

2019

Anmerkungen zur Rezeption des Stoizismus in der Moralphilosophie der frühen Neuzeit (University of Fribourg, December 2019)
Critiques et défenseurs de la tolérance: Nouvelles perspectives de l’époque moderne (University of Lausanne, November 2019)
Archibald Campbell’s ‘True Self-love’ and the Divine Economy of Esteem (Conference ‘Recognition and Esteem in Early Modern Philosophy’, University of York, July 2019)
Discrimination, Affirmative Action and Toleration as Recognition: Response to Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Workshop ‘Discrimination and Affirmative Action: Workshop with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen’, University of Lausanne, June 2019)
Pourquoi étudier des philosophes ‘mineurs’? Leçons du cas d’Archibald Campbell(Presentation, Paris-8 Nanterre, April 2019)
Aufklärung gegenReligion? Take it easy! Denkanstösse aus der Schottischen Aufklärung (Conference ‘Aufklärung und Religion’, Lucerne, March 2019)

2018

Grenzen der Toleranz (Bern, philosophie.ch, December 2018)
From Carmichael to Hutcheson (Conference ‘After Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Passions in Germany and Scotland’, History and Philosophy Departments, University of St. Andrews, October 2018)
Schottland auf dem Weg zur Aufklärung – Toleranz und Einheit der Kirche (Conference ‘Religiöse Toleranz – Historische Grundlegungen und Praktiken in Europa seit der Reformation’, Universität Bern, October 2018)
La notion des lumières naturelles dans les Épitres aux Romains (Conference ‘Philosophie et exégèse’, Université Clermont Auvergne, May 2018)
‘The Grievances of this Church from Toleration’ – La notion de la tolérance dans la philosophie et théologie écossaise avant et pendant les Lumières (Research Seminar, History Department, Université de Lausanne, May 2018)
16th- and 17th-Century Influences on the Scottish Enlightenment (Conference ‘The Scottish Tradition: Explaining its Rise, Understanding its Legacy’, Princeton, March 2018)
Love and Tolerance: Response to John Bowlin (Meet the author-Workshop ‘John Bowlin: Tolerance among the Virtues (Princeton: 2017)’, Geneva, March 2018)

2017

The Gaze of Tolerance (Conference ‘Situating the Human’, Pardubice, September 2017)
Humiliating, Elevating Our Selves (Conference ‘Existential Philosophy and Literature: The Franco-Scottish Connection, Past and Present’, Glasgow, September 2017)
Archibald Campbell et le Committee for Purity of Doctrine: La définition de l’orthodoxie dans l’église presbytérienne écossaise au début des Lumières écossaises (Conference ‘Définir l’hétérodoxie dans le protestantisme, entre église et état’, Lyon, June 2017)
Tolérance et discrimination (Fachschaft Philosophie, Fribourg, June 2017)
Shaftesbury’s Manuscript Pathologia: Stoicism, the Passions and Virtue (Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy SSEMP, Edinburgh, April 2017)
Quel amour-propre pour quelle activité économique? Nicole, Mandeville et Smith (Les ateliers richesse et vertu, Paris, January 2017)

2016

On Simson’s Letters to Campbell (Conference on the History of Scottish Theology, Edinburgh, December 2016)
Butler on Conscience and Self-Love (Conference on Conscience, Berne, December 2016)
‘Ismer’ – Quelques réflexions sur les -ismes dans l’histoire de la philosophie (Working paper, Lausanne, November 2016)
Hutcheson’s Treatment of Self-love and Benevolence in System I.III (Workshop ‘Hutcheson: Philosophy and Context’, Lausanne, September 2016)
Which Place for Intellectual Biography in the Discipline of Philosophy? (Workshop ‘Harris’ Hume’, Fribourg, May 2016)
Moralphilosophie im Schottland des 17. Jahrhunderts: Bemerkungen zu einer terra incognita (Research in Progress Workshop, Fribourg, May 2016)
Tolerance in Scottish Philosophy in the 17^th Century (Conference ‘Scottish Philosophy before the Enlightenment’, Princeton Theological Seminary, March 2016)
La philautia dans les Theses philosophicæ écossaises du 17^ème siècle (Workshop ‘Journée philautie, Paris-Sorbonne, February 2016)
What Might Hutcheson Have Found Interesting in Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum? (Conference ‘Intellectual Relations between England and Scotland in the Early Enlightenment (c. 1660-c. 1740)’, University of St. Andrews, January 2016)

2015

Archibald Campbell (Conference ‘In Principio Erat Verbum – The Contribution of St Mary’s College to Scottish Theology and Church Life’, University of St. Andrews, December 2015)
The Forgotten Range of Defences of Sociability: Hutcheson and Campbell on Hobbes (St. Andrews Seminars in Intellectual History, University of St. Andrews, December 2015)
Quelques réflexions méthodologiques à propos de l’histoire de la philosophie (Université de Lausanne, November 2015)
A propos des racines de la formule du plus grand bonheur pour le plus grand nombre (Centre Walras-Pareto d’études interdisciplinaires de la pensée économique et politique, Université de Lausanne, November 2015)
Putting Pity on Stage (Workshop ‘Exploring Pity’, University of Fribourg, October 2015)
What to do About Amour-Propre’s Bad Reputation? (Workshop on Frederick Neuhouser’s Rousseau’s Critique of Inequality, University of Lausanne, May 2015)
Mandeville sur le ‘utile’ et le ‘honestum’: une comparaison avec ses critiques (Conference ‘Les ateliers richesse et vertu: Richesse et bonheur’, Paris-1; Paris-8; CNRS, April 2015)
Moral Philosophy and Calvinist topoi in 17^th-Century Scotland: Some General Characteristics and Some Exceptional Highlights (CSSP Spring Conference ‘Common Sense and Enlightenment’, Princeton Theological Seminary, March 2015)
‘Taking a View of What Passes Within Oneself’–The British Moralists on Conscience (Colloquium ‘Conscience–Historical, Comparative and Contemporary Perspectives’, University of Berne, March 2015)
Quelle notion de la profondeur pour une philosophie de l’amour? (Workshop ‘Facettes de l’amour en philosophie’, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II, February 2015)

2014

Randfiguren der Philosophiegeschichte: Weshalb und wie dieselben studieren? (Université de Fribourg, December 2014)
Moral Philosophy and Calvinism in Seventeenth–Century Scotland (Institut d’histoire de la Réformation IHR, University of Geneva, December 2014)
Mandeville, Hobbisms, and Loves of Self (Workshop ‘Tolonen on Mandeville and Hume’, University of Fribourg, November 4, 2014)
What might the Presbyterian Visitation Commission have disliked about More’s Enchiridon Ethicum? (Workshop on Henry More’s Enchridion Ethicum, University of Fribourg, September 12 & 13, 2014)
Mandeville on Shaftesbury and the Stoics (Conference ‘Unusual Emptiness of the Title Page – Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees in Helsinki’, University of Helsinki, June, 2014)
Mandeville and Religion (Conference ‘Mandeville’s Moral and Political Thought in its Historical Context’, NIAS Wassenaar, June 2014)
Archibald Campbell (1691–1756) and the ‘Committee for the Purity of Doctrine of the Church of Scotland’ (IASH’s Fellows Seminar, Edinburgh, IASH, April 2014)Orthodoxy in Dispute: The Committee for Purity of Doctrine and Archibald Campbell’s Philosophy of Religion (Conference ‘Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment’, Princeton, March 2014)
On Moral Philosophy and Religion in 17th–Century Scottish Philosophy (Workshop on Scottish Philosophy in Scotland and France in the 17th Century, Paris I–Sorbonne–Panthéon, February 2014)
Zu ‘Liebe auf den ersten Blick’ (Philosophische Gesellschaft Salzburg, January 2014)

2013

On ‘Love at First Sight’ (Love Today : Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Research Colloquium of the Forum for Modern Language Studies, University of St. Andrews, December 2013)
Reason’s not so Sufficient Insufficiency : Rom. 1.19,20 and the Committee’s Attack on Campbell’s Philosophy of Religion (Conference on Scottish Philosophy in Scotland and France in the 17th Century, University of Edinburgh, November 2013)
Co–Organisation of the Workshop ‘Le rire dans la philosophie morale aux 17e et 18e siècles’, University of Fribourg (with Julie Giangiobbe, University of Fribourg, October 2013)
On ‘Love at First Sight’. (Conference Love and Its Objects, University of Pardubice, July 2013)
The Passions in 17th Century Scottish Theses philosophicae (Conference on Scottish Philosophy in Scotland and France in the 17th Century, University of Glasgow, June 2013)
What Can an Egoist say against an Egoist ? Archibald Campbell’s Criticisms of Bernard Mandeville. (Spring Conference, Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton, March 2013)
Francis Hutcheson et Archibald Campbell: Deux critiques de la conception hobbesienne de la sociabilité. (Workshop Hobbes et ses critiques, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont–Ferrand II, February 2013)

2012

Hobbes, the Stoics and the Fall in the Theses philosophicæ (Workshop on Scottish Philosophy in Scotland and France in the 17th Century, St. Andrews, December 2012)
Stoicism, Philosophy and Theology in Scotland (and England). (Workshop on Christopher Brooke’s Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau, University of Fribourg (with the Universities of Berne and Lausanne), November 2012)
Calvinist Doctrines at the Beginning of the Scottish Enlightenment: Archibald Campbell vs. The Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Human Nature and Self–Love. (Cambridge Seminars in Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge, October 2012)
Human Nature, Amour–propre and Society: Hume on Themes from the French Augustinian Moralists. (Conference ‘Hume’s French Conversation’, Paris I–Sorbonne / Paris VII, 6–8 September 2012)
Mandeville and Campbell on Fashionable Clothes, Luxury and Vice (Workshop ‘Mandeville in Context’, University of Fribourg, May 2012)
Vulnerability and Autonomy in Love (Workshop ‘Autonomy and Love in Bioethics’, University of Münster, March 2012)
L’amour fou – à la recherche de la folie dans l’amour, Public Conference ‘Les rencontres de Sophie: La folie des hommes’, Nantes, March 2012
Shaftesburys Manuskript ‘Pathologia’ (1706): Philosophische und philologische Anmerkungen zur Rekonstruktion der stoischen Theorie der Emotionen. (University of Fribourg, Research Seminar, February 2012)

2011

A propos du ‘Christian Stoicism’ de Hutcheson. (Workshop ‘Néostoïcisme et philosophie britannique: Autour de la traduction ‘The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius’ par Francis Hutcheson et James Moor’, University of Fribourg, December 2011)
By Religion a Protestant, by Humour a Stoick – George Mackenzie’s Essays on Moral Subjects. (Workshop on Scottish Philosophy in Scotland and France in the 17th Century, Edinburgh / Arniston House, November 2011)
Conditionally Unconditional. (Workshop Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Love, University of Fribourg, October 2011)
Commentary on Jennifer Welchman, Hume on Self–love in the Treatise. (Hume Conference, University of Edinburgh, July 2011)
Is Cleomenes an Early Utilitarian? And is Mandeville? (Mandeville Workshop, Ghent University, June 2011)
Philosophical Issues in the Westminster Confession of Faith. (Workshop on Scottish Philosophy in Scotland and France in the 17th Century, Paris, June 2011)
Is Archibald Campbell an Enlightenment Philosopher? (University of Sussex, BSHP annual conference, March 2011)
Shaftesbury, Stoicism, and Virtue. (Workshop on the British Moralists, Paris, February 2011)

2010

Orthodox Calvinism and Moral Philosophy: Early 18th–Century Anthropological Questions to the 17th Century. (Workshop on Scottish Philosophy in Scotland and France in the 17th Century, University of Glasgow, November 2010)
Supremacy of Unconditional Love? Against Agapic Ascension. (CEVI Lecture, Ghent University, November 2010)
Mandeville: Augustinian Moralist or Utilitarian? (CEVI Lecture, Ghent University, November 2010)
Archibald Campbell: Frühaufklärerische Moralphilosophie vs. orthodoxer Calvinismus? (Université de Fribourg, October 2010)
The Tragic Passion of Pity in Enlightenment Moral Philosophy (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont–Ferrand II, April 2010)
On the Influence of Hutcheson and Butler on Reid’s Classification of the Principles of Action (Conference ‘Reid in His Time and Ours’, Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow, March 2010)
Archibald Campbell on True Self–Love, Self–Cultivation and Self–Denial (Spring Conference, Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton, March 2010)
‘La plus injuste et la plus criminelle passion’: Pascal et Mandeville à propos de l’amour–propre (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont–Ferrand II, February 2010)