The Emergence of Impartiality

Location: Topoi-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

 

Thursday, 14 July 2011

Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford) / Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin)
Welcome and Introduction: Instances of Impartiality
Joad Raymond (University of East Anglia)
Exporting Impartiality
Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin)
Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire historique et critique and the Approach to Objectivity in Historiography. Controversial Issues and Methodical Debates in the Early Eighteenth Century
Anja Zimmermann (Universität Oldenburg)
(Un-)Parteiliche Betrachter? Visuelle Evidenz in der englischen Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts

Friday, 15 July 2011

Rainer Godel (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
The Rise of Controversies and the Function of Impartiality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Christian Thomasius’s ‘Händel‘
Tamás Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Impartiality without Objectivity: Hume’s Case for Separating Moral Evaluation and Moral Philosophy
Bastian Ronge (Freie Universität Berlin)
Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator as a Revenant of the Stoic Parrhesiast
Beth Stovell (McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON)
‘Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth‘? Impartiality and the Schism between Biblical and Systematic Theology
Rhodri Lewis (University of Oxford)
Impartiality and Disingenuousness in Restoration Natural Theology
Nathaniel Stogdill (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Abraham Cowley’s Invigorated Impartiality
Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford)
The Language of Impartiality in Party-Political Discourse, 1680–1745

Saturday, 16 July 2011

Derek Dunne (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Partialitie in a Iudge, is a Turpitude‘: Partial Judges and Impartial Revengers in Early Modern English Drama
Bernd Roling (Freie Universität Berlin)
Bruchstellen im Raster des Artensystems: Carl von Linné und die Folklore
Hanns-Peter Neumann (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg / Freie Universität Berlin)
Objectivity, Impartiality, and Hermeneutics as Means of a Policy of Science in the Leibnizian-Wolffian Discourses between 1715 and 1750
Gideon Stiening (LMU München)
Impartiality in Natural Law Theories of the Eighteenth Century
Nick Hardy (University of Oxford)
Impartiality and the ars critica in Early Modern England