Schedule of the Berkeley Conference
Helsinki, August 6-9 2007
August 5
19.00 Sightseeing
August 6
09.30 Registration
09.45 Opening of the Conference. Chair: Bertil Belfrage
Berkeley on Perceiving
Chair: Stephen Daniel
10.00 Bertil Belfrage: *Ideas* in Section One of Berkeley*s Principles
10.45 Coffee break
11.00 Martha Bolton: Berkeley on Perception, Judgment, Suggestion and Inference
11.45 Lunch
Chair: Howard Robinson
13.30 Dan Flage: Analysis in Berkeley*s New Theory of Vision
14.15 Luc Petersmitt: The New Theory of Vision: Science or Metaphysics?
15.00 Coffee break
15.15 Mykolas Drunga: Berkeley and the Time-gap Argument
16.00 Rest
18.00 Audience with the Rector of Helsinki University, Ilkka Niiniluoto.
Wine reception in the Main Building of the University.
August 7
Berkeley*s Ontology
Chair: Richard Brook
09.30 Geneviève Brykman: Is Immaterialism a Roundabout Way to Faith?
10.15 Georges Dicker: Another Whack at Berkeley: a Critical Analysis of Principles 1-7
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 Stephen Daniel: The Pervasiveness of Stoic Elements in Berkeley*s Thought
12.00 Lunch
August 7 (contd)
Chair: Georges Dicker
13.30 Howard Robinson: Two Berkelian Arguments about the Nature of Space
14.15 Wolfgang Breidert: Representation in Berkeley*s Philosophy of Mathematics
15.00 Coffee Break
15.15 George Pappas: Berkeley*s Treatment of Scepticism
16.00 Wine reception
August 8
Berkeley*s Concept of the Soul
Chair: George Pappas
10.15 Kenneth Winkler: *Marvellous Emptiness*: Berkeley on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
11.00 Coffee Break
11.15 Richard Brook: Does Berkeley Need a Subconscious?
12.00 Lunch
Chair: Wolfgang Breidert
13.30 Ville Paukkonen: Berkeley on Self-Knowledge
14.15 Marc Hight: Of Brutes and Men: What the Nature of Beasts can tell us about Berkeley*s Conception of the Mind
15.00 Coffee Break
15.15 Roomet Jakapi: Berkeley and the Disembodied Soul
19.00 Dinner at the Sveaborg/Suomenlinna Castle, Restaurant Walhalla
August 9
Berkeley in Context
Chair: Geneviève Brykman
09.30 Timo Airaksinen: Berkeley on Newton in Siris
10.15 Tom Stoneham: Arthur Collier on Imagination and Inexistence
11.00 Coffee Break
11.15 George Caffentzis: Berkeley and Hume on Money, Notions, and Conventions
12.00 Lunch
August 9 (contd)
Chair: Timo Airaksinen
13.30 Talia Bettcher: Abstraction: Berkeley against Locke
14.15 Jani Hakkarainen: Hume and Berkeley*s Repugnancy Argument against the Primary Secondary Qualities Distinction
15.00 Ending of the conference
The conference will be held
in the main building of the University of Helsinki
Auditorium XIII
The address is: Fabianinkatu 33
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