Category: Conferences

Organizers: Meir Buzaglo and Bertil Belfrage. Monday, April 4 9:30-9:45  Opening of Conference: Bertil Belfrage (Lund) Session One: Georges Dicker (SUNY Brockport), chair 9:45-10:30  Bertil Belfrage (Lund): “George Berkeley’s New Philosophy (after 1721)” 10:45-11:30  Meir Buzaglo (Hebrew U Jerusalem): “An Idealistic View on …

4-7 April 2016, International Berkeley Conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Read more »

Organizer: Seth Bordner. Melissa Frankel (Carlton University, Canada): “Descartes and Berkeley on Sensory Perception”; response: Genevieve Migely (Cornell College, Iowa) Nathan Sheff (University of Connecticut): “Berkeley’s Dilemma for Temporal Absolutists”; response: Eric Schliesser (University of Ghent) Stephen Daniel (Texas A&M …

7 January 2016, IBS Session, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, DC. Read more »

Stephen H. Daniel (Texas A&M): “Berkeley and Descartes on How Perception Is Active”; response: Thomas Lennon (Western Ontario) Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College): “Locke and Berkeley on Time and Succession”; response: Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers)

Organized by Peter Larsen, Aisling Crean, and Stefan Storrie, the conference included a tour of Marsh’s Library and a reception at the Royal Irish Academy, and featured the following presentations: Kenneth Pearce (Southern California): “Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley’s Polemic …

April 4-6, 2014, International Berkeley Conference: The Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Read more »

Stefan Storrie (Trinity College Dublin): “Berkeley and Shaftesbury on Moral Motivation”; response: Adam Grzeliński (Nicolaus Copernicus) Don Garrett (New York U): “Extended Ideas in Berkeley and Hume”; response: Don Baxter (Connecticut)

Organized by Bertil Belfrage and Milowit Kuniński, the conference featured the following presentations: Wolfgang Breidert (Karlsruhe): “Immaterialism and Illusionism: Berkeley in Poetry–A Continuation” Bertil Belfrage (Lund): “Berkeley’s Three Dialogues in the Context of His Works 1709-1733” Mykolas Drunga (Vytautas Magnus, …

Aug. 19-22, 2013, International Berkeley Conference: The 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Collegium Maius, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Read more »

IBS Session: Authors Reply to Critics, A Roundtable John R. Roberts (Florida State University): “Berkeley’s Mental Realism” Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney College): “Why Ideas Have an Ontological (and not Merely Epistemic) Status” Stephen H. Daniel (Texas A&M University): “How Berkeley Redefines …

Feb. 21, 2013, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL Read more »

IBS Session: Berkeley’s Master Argument Keota Fields (University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth): “Berkeley’s Master Argument Revisited” John Grey (Boston University): ““Representation and Intentionality in Berkeley’s Master Argument”

Organized by Bertil Belfrage, Sébastien Charles, and David Raynor, the conference featured the following presentations: Bertil Belfrage (Lund, Sweden): “George Berkeley’s Fundamentalism: A Passing Phase in His Moral Philosophy (1707-1712)” Sébastien Charles (Sherbrooke): “De Pascal à Locke: la reprise berkeleyenne …

June 1-4, 2012, Moral and Social Philosophy/La philosophie morale et sociale de Berkeley, Université de Sherbrooke (Campus Longueuil), Longueuil, Québec Read more »

Katia Saporiti (University of Zurich): “Berkeley’s Concept of Time” David Raynor (University of Ottawa): “Berkeley’s Reticence about Divine Archetypes”