A Workshop in Honor of the 300th Anniversary of the Principles concerning Human Knowledge

A Workshop in Honor of the 300th Anniversary of the Principles
concerning Human Knowledge
Berkeley’s Philosophy of Mind
September 24-25, 2010

Preliminary Program
All sessions will be held in University College (UC) 224a on the campus of The University of
Western Ontario
Friday, September 24
8:00—8:15 Welcome – Corey Dyck (UWO)
8:15—11:00 Mental Substance
8:15—9:00 Margaret Atherton (UW, Milwaukee), “Berkeley’s Concept of Spiritual
Substance”
9:00—9:45 Todd Ryan (Trinity College), “Berkeley on the Nature of the Soul”
9:45—9:55 Coffee Break
9:55—10:15 Phillip Cummins (Iowa), Commentary
10:15—11:00 Roundtable Discussion
11:00—11:30 Student Session
11:00-11:30 Michael Borgida (UWO), “Beyond our Grasp – Distance in Berkeley’s
Philosophy”
11:30—12:45 Lunch
12:45—3:30 Representation and Intentionality
12:45—1:30 Walter Ott (Virginia Tech), “Berkeley’s Representational Internalism”
1:30—2:15 Ville Paukonen (Helsinki), “Berkeley on the Intentionality of Notions”
2:15—2:25 Coffee Break
2:25—2:45 Melissa Frankel (Carleton), Commentary
2:45—3:30 Roundtable Discussion
3:30—3:45 Coffee Break
3:45—6:30 Consciousness and Perception
3:45—4:30 Daniel Flage (James Madison), “Relations, Necessary Connection, and
Berkeley’s Idealism”
4:30—5:15 Talia Bettcher (CSULA), "The Ontology of Perception in Berkeley’s
Philosophy"
5:15—5:25 Break
5:25—5:45 Tom Stoneham (York, UK), Commentary
5:45—6:30 Roundtable Discussion
7:00—9:30 Dinner

Saturday, September 25
8:00—8:30 Coffee and Pastries
8:30—11:15 Will and Mental Activity
8:30—9:15 Genevieve Migely (Cornell College), “Expanding the Notion of ‘Activity’ in
Berkeley’s Philosophy of Mind”
9:15—10:00 John Roberts (FSU), “Activity, Immaterialism, and Berkeley’s Platonism”
10:00—10:10 Coffee Break
10:10—10:30 Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney College), Commentary
10:30—11:15 Roundtable Discussion
11:15—12:15 Student Session
11:15—11:45 Michael Istvan (Texas A&M), “The Link between Berkeley’s Refutation
of Abstraction and his Refutation of Materialism
11:45—12:15 Patrick Clipsham (UWO), “Berkeley’s Methodology: The Master
Argument as a Mental Exercise”
12:15—1:30 Lunch
1:30—4:15 The Divine Mind
1:30—2:15 Stephen H. Daniel (Texas A&M), "Berkeley's 'Occasionalism': Finite
Causality and Divine Volition”
2:15—3:00 Benjamin Hill (UWO), “Berkeley’s Perceiving God: A Dilemma”
3:00—3:10 Coffee Break
3:10—3:30 Karolina Huebner (Toronto), Commentary
3:30—4:15 Roundtable Discussion
4:15—5:30 Student Session
4:15—4:30 Coffee Break
4:30—5:00 Hugh Hunter (Toronto), “Why Berkeley’s Minds are Free”
5:00—5:30 Rodney Parker (UWO), “Berkeley’s Non-sensical Ideas or What I Can
Remember about Them”
5:30—5:45 Closing Remarks – Corey Dyck (UWO)
6:00—7:30 Reception

7:30—10:00 Dinner