ABSTRACT

An international Adam Smith conference celebrating the 250th anniversary of The Theory of Moral Sentiments was held in Oslo, Norway, on August 27–29, 2009. It was jointly hosted and funded by three Oslo-based research institutions: the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN/Christel Fricke and Raino Malnes), the Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance (ESOP/Kalle Moene) and the Seminar on Theory of Science (Ragnvald Kalleberg).