23-26 October 2017, International Berkeley Conference: Berkeley’s Philosophy after the Principles and the Three Dialogues, Institute of Philosophy, NCU, Toruń, Poland
Berkeley’s Philosophy after the Principles and the Three Dialogues
Institute of Philosophy, NCU, Toruń, Poland, 23–26 October 2017
Venue: The Petite Fleur Hotel (conference room)
Monday, October 23
09:00 Registration
09:30 Opening of the Conference. Chair: Bertil Belfrage
Development in Berkeley
Chair: Stephen Daniel
09:45 Bertil Belfrage (Lund University), “The Unknown Berkeley: Consequences of a Biased Edition”
10:30 Dariusz Kucharski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University), “Spirit of Nature and Metaphysics of Light. Some sources for Siris”
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Adam Grzeliński (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “The irrelevance of the immaterialist thesis in Berkeley’s Siris”
12:15 Lunch
Causality
Chair: Dariusz Kucharski
14:30 Richard Brook (Bloomsburg University), “Berkeley, Newton, Explanation and Causality”
15:15 Coffee break
15:45 Ville Paukkonen (Boğaziçi University), “Berkeley’s theory of agent causation: finite and infinite agents and the question of necessary connections”
17:30 Wine reception (Institute of Philosophy Reading Room)
Tuesday, October 24
The Unity of Berkeley’s Philosophy
Chair: Silvia Parigi
10:00 David Bartha (Central European University), “Laws of nature and the divine will in the Siris”
10:45 Peter West (Trinity College Dublin), “Anti-Abstractionism and Berkeley’s Theory of Meaning in Alciphron 7”
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Takaharu Oda (Tartu University), “Berkeley’s Metaphysics of Causality in De Motu”
12:30 Lunch
15:00 Sightseeing tour
Wednesday, October 25
Berkeley in Context
Chair: Tom Stoneham
10:00 Stephen Daniel (Texas A&M University), “Berkeley on Descartes and Locke after 1720”
10:45 Kenneth L. Pearce (Trinity College Dublin), “The Monster of Malmesbury and the Bishop of Cloyne: Hobbist Origins of Berkeley’s Theory of Meaning and Inference”
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Silvia Parigi (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici), “Berkeley’s Christian Enlightenment”
12:30 Lunch
Social and Political Philosophy
Chair: Richard Brook
15:00 Pawel Hanczewski (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “George Berkeley: Forging the Irish Nation”
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Tom Stoneham (University of York), “Deliverance from Error: Berkeley on education and moral improvement”
17.45 Wine reception (Institute of Philosophy Reading Room)
Thursday, October 26
Berkeley’s Neglected Works in Focus
Chair: Kenneth Pearce
10:00 Artem Besedin (Moscow State University), “Berkeley on Free Will and Accountability in Alciphron VII”
10:45 John Blechl (University of York), “The ‘Minor Publications Hypothesis’”
11.30 Coffee break
11:45 Manuel Fasko (University of Zurich), “Berkeley’s Cajetan or Alciphron IV § 21 revisited”
12:30 Lunch
18:00 Farewell dinner