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

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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, Lithuania): “Is ‘The Fiction of Our Brain’ Just ‘A False Imaginary Glare’?”
  • Adam Grzeliński (Nicolaus Copernicus): “Berkeley’s Immediate Perception and the Theory of Minima Sensibilia”
  • Milowit Kuniński (Jagiellonian, Kraków): “Is the Passivity of Perception the Proper Justification of Berkeley’s Immaterialism?”
  • Richard Brook (Bloomsburg, PA): “Berkeley and the Primary Qualities: Idealization vs. Abstraction”
  • Dale Jacquette (Bern): “Berkeley’s Carriage Argument”
  • Georges Dicker (SUNY Brockport): “Reply to my Critics”
  • Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers): “Berkeley on the Autonomous Epistemic Authority of Immediate Present Perception”
  • Keota Fields (Massachusetts, Dartmouth): “Berkeley’s Master Argument Reconsidered”
  • George Pappas (Ohio State): “Berkeley’s Immaterialism and Competitive Advantage”
  • Przemysław Spryszak (Jagiellonian, Kraków): “Berkeley on Certainty: A Dilemma”
    Bartosz Żukowski (Lodz): “The Alleged Realism of Berkeley’s Philosophy”
  • Stephen Daniel (Texas A&M): “Berkeley and Locke on Substance and Personal Identity”
  • Daniel Flage (James Madison): “On Knowing Berkeley’s Minds”
  • James Hill (Prague): “The Notion of Spirit in Berkeley’s Three Dialogues”
  • Ville Paukkonen (Helsinki): “Berkeley’s Rejection of the Bundle Theory of the Self”
  • Arnaud Pelletier (Catholic U, Leuven): “Berkeley’s Notion of the Possible in the Three Dialogues”
  • Kenneth L. Pearce (Southern California): “How Berkeley’s Gardener Knows His Cherry Tree”
  • Anna Tomaszewska (Jagiellonian, Kraków): “Berkeley and McDowell on Perceptual Experience”
  • Piotr Szałek (Catholic U, Lublin, Poland): “Berkeley’s Pragmatism”
    Marta Szymańska-Lewoszewska (Jagiellonian, Kraków): “The Nature of Berkeley’s Propositions on Morality in 1713”
  • Roomet Jakapi (Tartu): “On the Creation of Plants in a Desert”
  • Timothy Quandt (California State, Fullerton): “Making (Non) Sense of Future Rewards? Berkeley’s Criterion of Meaning in the Second Dialogue Between Hylas and Philonous”
  • The conference ended with a tour of the University Museum and a reception in the Stuba Communis.