Organized by Katia Saporiti, the conference featured the following presentations: Margaret Atherton (Wisconsin/Milwaukee): “Spirits and Substances” Wolfgang Breidert (Karlsruhe): “Berkeley and problems of memory” Georges Dicker (SUNY Brockport): “Reflections on Berkeley’s Theory of Mind” Ville Paukkonen (Helsinki): “Berkeley’s conception of …
Nancy Kendrick (Wheaton College, MA): “The Empty Amusement of Seeing: Berkeley on Causation and Explanation” Richard Brook (Bloomsberg University): “Berkeley and the Causality of Ideas: Another Look at Principles 25”
Organized by Benjamin Hill and Corey Dyck, the conference was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Celebrating the 300th anniversary of the publication of Berkeley’s Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), the IBS-sponsored event included scholars from …
Organized by Richard Glauser, the conference was held at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Celebrating the 300thanniversary of the publication of Berkeley’s Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), the IBS-sponsored event included scholars from Europe, North America, and Japan who, …
6th-9th April 2010, International Berkeley Conference, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Read more »
IBS Session: The 300th Anniversary of the Publication of the New Theory of Vision Kenneth Winkler (Yale University): “The First Person in Vision” Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers University): “Is the Doctrine of a Visual Language Integral to Berkeley’s Theory of Vision?”
Organized by Bertil Belfrage, Wolfgang Breidert, and Marlene Breidert, the conference was held at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Celebrating the 300thanniversary of the publication of Berkeley’s Essay towards A New Theory of Vision (1709), the IBS-sponsored event included scholars from Europe …
17th-20th August 2009, International Berkeley Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany Read more »
IBS Session Peter Baumann (Aberdeen University): “Molyneux’s Question and the Berkeleian Answer” Commentator: Robert Schwartz (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) Keota Fields (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth): “The Role of Predication in Berkeley’s Immaterialism” Commentator: Larry Nolan (California State University–Long Beach)
IBS Session: “Authors Meet Critics: Recent Books on Berkeley” Daniel Flage (James Madison University) on Talia Bettcher’s Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit Response: Talia Bettcher (California State University, Los Angeles) Walter Ott (Virginia Tech University) on John Roberts’ A Metaphysics for the Mob: …
Organized by Steve Daniel,Maureen Lapan, Nancy Kendrick, Nancy Bredbeck, Joanne Dunlap, and Vince Arnold, the conference was held at the historic Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport. Highlights included a presentation by Sean Berkeley (a descendant of George Berkeley) on …
26th-28th June 2008, International Berkeley Conference, Newport, Rhode Island Read more »
Georges Dicker (SUNY College at Brockport), “Another Whack at Berkeley: A Critical Analysis of Principles1-7” Commentator: John Troyer (University of Connecticut) Richard J. Brook (Bloomsburg University), “Berkeley, the Space of Our Lives and the Space of Physics” Commentator: Shoshanna Brassfield (Colgate University)