Berkeley Conference in Helsinki
19.6.2007
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Berkeley Conference
Helsinki, August 6-9 2007
in the main building of the University of Helsinki
Auditorium XIII
The address is: Fabianinkatu 33
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
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