Annual Lecture 2002

Sponsored by Lloyds TSB Scotland

Speaker

Professor John Gray, London School of Economics

"Hume, Liberty and the Market - a Twenty-First Century Perspective "

6.00pm 7 March 2002

Professor Brian Main, Director of The David Hume Institute said: "The Institute is grateful to Lloyds TSB Scotland for their support in sponsoring this event and we are delighted that The Hume Annual Lecture will be given this year by John Gray, Professor of European Economic Thought, London School of Economics. It is hoped that this Lecture will provide a platform for open and informed discussion concerning the continuing importance and relevance of the Scottish Enlightenment, and of Hume in particular, for our circumstances in the early twenty-first century.

Ms Susan Rice, Chief Executive, Lloyds TSB Scotland said: "As a bank whose sole market is Scotland, the legacy of the Scottish enlightenment for lives and our community today is of particular interest to us. We are therefore delighted to support this year’s Hume Lecture."

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Professor John Gray - Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.

He has held many visiting appointments, including Professor of Government at Harvard University, Olmsted Distinguished Professor of Social Philosophy at Yale University, Visiting Professor of Political Economy at Tulane University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Humanities at the Autonomous University in Madrid.

He has published over forty academic articles, numerous monographs and the following books: Mill on Liberty: a Defence (1983, 2nd Edition 1996); Hayek on Liberty (1984, 2nd Edition 1986, 3rd Edition 1998); Liberalism (1986, 2nd Edition 1995); Liberalisms: essays in political philosophy (1989); J.S. Mill's On Liberty In Focus, edited with G.W. Smith (1991); Postliberalism: studies in political thought (1993); Beyond the New Right: markets, government and the common environment (1993); Enlightenment's wake: politics and culture at the close of the modern age (1995); Isaiah Berlin (1995); Endgames: questions in late modern political thought (1997); Is Conservatism Dead? (1997); False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, (March 1998; 2nd Edition December 1998); Voltaire and Enlightenment (1998); Two Faces of Liberalism (2000).

He reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Independent, New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review and other journals.

Notes to Editors:

The views that will be expressed by the speaker are his own and do not commit the Trustees or Officers of the Institute in any way.