Some past and future activities in research, teaching and outreach connected to the project:
(For a more extensive list of our activities, see the SNSF database, and the most recently published papers in our special issue of Global Intellectual History)
Publications: See https://wp.unil.ch/tolerance/2019/12/new-publications-of-the-project/
2020
In our project, we’re just about to complete the critical editions of James Dundas’ Idea Philosophiae Moralis (1679) for Edinburgh University Press (eds. Alexander Broadie and Giovanni Gellera), and of Francis Hutcheson’s System of Moral Philosophy (1755) for Liberty Fund (eds. Knud Haakonssen and Christian Maurer).
2019
– June 21st: co-organisation (with Angela Martin, UniFr & Nenad Stojanovic, UniGe) of a workshop on Discrimination and Affirmative Action with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus)
– May: working visit of Kamila Pacovská and Ondrej Beran (Centre for Ethics, Pardubice)
– March: translation week on James Dundas’ manuscript « Idea philosophiæ moralis » with Prof. Alexander Broadie, Glasgow
– March: co-organisation (with James Foster, USF) of the annual ISSP conference « Tolerance, Sociability and Solidarity » in Lausanne
– Spring term: Seminar « How to Face Evil: Forgiveness, Love and Tolerance »
2018
– September: organisation of the conference « Tolerance in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish and English philosophy and theology » in Lausanne
– Autumn term: Seminar « The Reception of Stoicism in Early Modern Moral Philosophy »
– April: translation week on James Dundas’ manuscript « Idea philosophiæ moralis » with Prof. Alexander Broadie, Glasgow
– March: research presentations by team members at the conference « The Scottish Tradition: Explaining its Rise, Understanding its Legacy » in Princeton
– March: co-organisation with the University of Geneva, of the workshop « John Bowlin: Tolerance among the Virtues » in Geneva and Lausanne
– Spring term: Seminar « Religion and Morality »
2017
– November: co-organisation with the Universities of Berne & ZHAW, of the workshop « Interdisziplinäre Diskriminierungsforschung in der Schweiz: Wozu und wie? » in Berne
– November: translation week on James Dundas’ manuscript « Idea philosophiæ moralis » with Prof. Alexander Broadie, Glasgow
– October: co-organisation of the workshop « Studying the Enlightenment. Perspectives from Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy » in Lausanne
– September: organisation of the workshop « Tolérance, liberté de conscience et affaires du consensus: Théologie et philosophie en Suisse romande aux 17e et 18e siècles » in Lausanne. Click here for the Programme.
– Autumn term: Lecture course « The Scottish Enlightenment »
– June: research presentations by team members at the conference « Définir l’hétérodoxie dans le protestantisme, entre Eglises et Etats » in Lyon
– June: research presentations by team members at the symposium « History of Scottish Theology » in Edinburgh
– March: translation week on James Dundas’ manuscript « Idea philosophiæ moralis » with Prof. Alexander Broadie, Glasgow
– Spring term: seminar « Tolerance in contemporary philosophy: Recent texts »
– Spring term: several contributions by invited researchers to a lecture series on « Tolerance, Intolerance and Discrimination » in Lausanne
2016
– December: research presentation by team members at the symposium « History of Scottish Theology » in Edinburgh
– December: research presentations by team members at the conference « Conscience » in Berne
– October: translation week on James Dundas’ manuscript « Idea philosophiæ moralis » with Prof. Alexander Broadie, Glasgow
– September: organisation of the conference « Hutcheson: Philosophy and Context », Lausanne
– Autumn term: seminar « Tolerance in early modern philosophy: Spinoza, Locke and Bayle »