- In the first period (months 1-6) I have focused on the first research question, which involved the convergences in the critique of commercial society of Rousseau and Ferguson.
I presented a version of article 1 to my research group.
-During the second period (months 7-12), I worked on a revised version of article 1. I presented this at two international conferences. I submitted art. 1 to Philosophy & Social Criticism.
I started doing research for article 2, which combines research questions 2 and 3 (about the convergences in the moral psychologies and conjectural histories).
I wrote a blogs for Moralmarkets.org.
- Months 13-17. I mainly still worked on article 2 during this period, but also began research for article 3, on the role of the histories of Rome, Geneva, and the Scottish Highlands in the republican theories of
Rousseau and Ferguson. In the end, I have not yet started to write article 3, but Roman history plays an important role too in the long final version of article 2.
I presented the first version of article 2 at a workshop on early modern philosophy, in Halifax, Canada. Two workshops that I (co-)organized were held at UNIL (28-30 June). The first on
Rousseau and contemporary political philosophy, the second on 'republican virtue in an age of doux commerce'. I presented a paper at the Rousseau-workshop in which I paid significant attention to the contemporary
relevance of Rousseau and Ferguson (a preparation for the research on questions 5 and 6). I wrote revisions of article 1, resubmitted then to Southern Journal of Philosophy.
- Months 18-24- I rewrote a short preliminary version of article 4 which I presented at a conference on political theory at Manchester University. I continued afterwards doing research for art. 4.
I did not manage to write and submit a fully developed version of this article yet. This is to be done in the near future. Before doing so,
however, I intend to finish and submit a co-written article (with Dr. Michele Bee) on Ferguson and Smith. I co-taught a master seminar on republicanism, and presented a version of it at a large
philosophical conference in the Netherlands. Writing of second blog for Moralmarkets.org. I rewrote article 1, after a
request to revise and resubmit.
Overview results, dissemination:
- The researcher has completed and submitted 2 peer-reviewed articles, and carried out most research for 3 other articles. Article 1 is conditionally accepted.
- Organization 2 workshops.
- He has completed 2 blogs for moralmarkets.org.
- Presentation work in progress at 6 international conferences.
- He has co-taught an MA seminar on republicanism.
