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Berkeley A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge Tercentenary Conference University of Neuchâtel 6 9 April 2010 / FLSH / R. E. 48 Institute of Philosophy & IBS www.unine.ch/philo T hursday 8 April F riday 9 April Chair : Bertil Belfrage 08:30–09:20 / Silvia Parigi (Gaeta) Berkeley and Boyle : Qualitative Corpuscularianism and the Laws of Nature 09:20–10:10 / Luc Peterschmitt (Lille) Berkeley’s Implicit Corpuscularianism in the PHK 10:10–10:30 / Break 10:30–11:20 / Claire Schwartz (Aix-Marseille) A New Scientific Methodology ? Metaphysical Principles and Physical Laws in De Motu 11:20–12:10 / Nancy Kendrick (Norton MA) The Empty Amusement of Seeing : Berkeley on Causation and Explanation Chair : Stephen Daniel 14:00–14:50 / Reed Winegar (Philadelphia) Berkeley’s Escape from the Labyrinth 14:50–15:40 / Richard Brook (Bloomsburg PA) Berkeley, and the Passivity of Ideas : A Look Again at PHK 25 and 26 15:40–15:50 / Break 15:50–16:40 / Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney VA) The Myth of Privacy 16:40–17:30 / Richard Glauser (Neuchâtel) Revisiting Berkeley on the Sameness of What We Perceive 17:30–17:45 / Break 17:45–18:40 / IBS Meeting : Future Plans Chair : Margaret Atherton 08:30–09:20 / Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere) On the Ontological Status of Berkeley’s Ideas 09:20–10:10 / Bertil Belfrage (Lund) Berkeley’s Psychological Concept of Thinking Substance 1710 10:10–10:30 / Break 10:30–11:20 / Talia Mae Bettcher (Los Angeles) Berkeley’s Positive Notion of Substance 11:20–12:10 / Sébastien Charles (Sherbrooke QC) Activité et passivité de l’esprit selon Berkeley Chair : Georges Dicker 14:00–14:50 / Tom Stoneham (York) Agency and Blind Agents 14:50–15:40 / Heta Gylling (Helsinki) Prudentiality, Expediency and Afterlife 15:40–16:00 / Break 16:00–16:50 / Timothy Quandt (Fullerton CA) Berkeley’s Immaterialism and the Evidential Problem of Evil 16:50–17:40 / Wolfgang Breidert (Karlsruhe) God’s Role in Berkeley’s Philosophy

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BerkeleyA Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human KnowledgeTercentenary Conference

University of Neuchâtel6 – 9 April 2010 / FLSH / R. E. 48

Institute of Philosophy & IBSwww.unine.ch/philo

Thursday8 April Friday

9 April

Chair : Bertil Belfrage

08:30 – 09:20 / Silvia Parigi (Gaeta)Berkeley and Boyle : Qualitative Corpuscularianism and the Laws of Nature

09:20 – 10:10 / Luc Peterschmitt (Lille)Berkeley’s Implicit Corpuscularianism in the PHK

10:10 – 10:30 / Break

10:30 – 11:20 / Claire Schwartz (Aix-Marseille)A New Scientific Methodology ? Metaphysical Principles and Physical Laws in De Motu

11:20 – 12:10 / Nancy Kendrick (Norton MA)The Empty Amusement of Seeing : Berkeley on Causation and Explanation

Chair : Stephen Daniel

14:00 – 14:50 / Reed Winegar (Philadelphia)Berkeley’s Escape from the Labyrinth

14:50 – 15:40 / Richard Brook (Bloomsburg PA)Berkeley, and the Passivity of Ideas : A Look Again at PHK 25 and 26

15:40 – 15:50 / Break

15:50 – 16:40 / Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney VA)The Myth of Privacy

16:40 – 17:30 / Richard Glauser (Neuchâtel)Revisiting Berkeley on the Sameness of What We Perceive

17:30 – 17:45 / Break

17:45 – 18:40 / IBS Meeting : Future Plans

Chair : Margaret Atherton

08:30–09:20 / Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere)On the Ontological Status of Berkeley’s Ideas

09:20–10:10 / Bertil Belfrage (Lund)Berkeley’s Psychological Concept of Thinking Substance 1710

10:10–10:30 / Break

10:30–11:20 / Talia Mae Bettcher (Los Angeles)Berkeley’s Positive Notion of Substance

11:20–12:10 / Sébastien Charles (Sherbrooke QC)Activité et passivité de l’esprit selon Berkeley

Chair : Georges Dicker

14:00–14:50 / Tom Stoneham (York)Agency and Blind Agents

14:50–15:40 / Heta Gylling (Helsinki)Prudentiality, Expediency and Afterlife

15:40–16:00 / Break

16:00–16:50 / Timothy Quandt (Fullerton CA)Berkeley’s Immaterialism and the Evidential Problem of Evil

16:50–17:40 / Wolfgang Breidert (Karlsruhe)God’s Role in Berkeley’s Philosophy

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Tuesday6 April Wednesday

7 April

Chair : Richard Glauser

08:15–08:30 / R. GlauserIntroduction

08:30–9:20 / Timo Airaksinen (Helsinki)Visual Language : A Kantian Analysis

09:20–10:10 / Laura Berchielli (Clermont-Ferrand)Berkeley on Language in the New Theory of Vision and the Principles

10:10–10:30 / Break

10:30–11:20 / Margaret Atherton (Milwaukee)The Nature of Berkeleianism : Lessons Learned from PHK 1-33

11:20–12:10 / Samuel Rickless (San Diego)The Relation Between Anti-Abstractionism and Idealism in Berkeley’s Metaphysics

Chair : George Pappas

14:00–14:50 / Keota Fields (Dartmouth MA)Transcendental Arguments in Berkeley’s Immaterialism

14:50–15:40 / Georges Dicker (Brockport NY)Berkeley’s Challenge

15:40–16:00 / Break

16:00–16:50 / Martha Bolton (Rutgers NJ)“The Most Abstract and Incomprehensible Idea of All” : Berkeley on Existence

16:50–17:40 / Katia Saporiti (Zurich)A Bet with High Stakes : Reflections on Berkeley’s Master Argument

Chair : Timo Airaksinen

8:30–9:20 / Stephen Daniel (College Station TX)Berkeley’s Appropriation of Bayle’s Constitutive Skepticism

9:20–10:10 / Geneviève Brykman (Paris-X)Berkeley et le scepticisme pyrrhonien

10:10–10:30 / Break

10:30–11:20 / George Pappas (Columbus OH)Berkeley and Epistemic Fallibilism

11:20–12:10 / Daniel Schulthess (Neuchâtel)Berkeleyan Ideas and Profiles : An Inquiry on Perspective

Chair : Martha Bolton

14:00–14:50 / Ville Paukkonen (Helsinki)Berkeley’s Likeness Principle

14:50–15:40 / Dominique Berlioz (Rennes-I)Percipere and Concipere, Berkeley’s Way to Abstraction and Knowledge

15:40–15:50 / Break

15:50–16:40 / James Hill (Prague)Berkeley’s Notions : A Middle Way Between Empiricism and Innatism ?

16:40–17:30 / Laurent Jaffro (Paris-I)Berkeley on Assent and the “Belief of Matter”

17:30–17:45 / Break

17:45–18:35 / Petr Glombicek (Prague)Berkeley’s Notion of Common Sense

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