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Bishop Berkeley’s Querist in Context Conference
May 18, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - May 20, 2017 @ 3:00 pm
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Thursday May 18
13:00 Registration
13:30 Opening of the Conference.
13:45 Bertil Belfrage (Lund University), ‘Berkeley’s Social Philosophy’
14:30 Adam Grzelinski (Nicolaus Copernicus University), ‘The Querist in the light of Berkeley’s early works’
15:15 Coffee break
16:00 Daniel Flage (James Madison University), “The Querist: Social Engineering and Natural Law”
17:00 Reception
Friday May 19
09:00 George Caffentzis (University of Southern Maine), “Exciting the Industry of Mankind: Synopsis and Response to Critics”
09:45 Eoin Magennis (Ulster University), “Bishop Berkeley, The Querist and Patriot Politics in 1730 Ireland”
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Edward McPhail (Dickinson College) and Salim Rashid (Universiti Utara Malaysia), “Berkeley’s Rules for Sound Banking”
11:30 Lunch
14:00 Patrick Kelly (TCD), “Is there more to Berkeley’s decision to publish the emasculated version of The Querist in 1750 than his prefatory Advertisement implies?”
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Marta Szymanska-Lewoszewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University), “The Influence of The Querist on Economic Theory in Poland”
16:00 International Berkeley Society Meeting
17:00 Reception
Saturday May 20
09:00 David Hilbert (University of Illinois Chicago), “Money, power, vision and touch: with some remarks on the benevolence of both God and national banks”
09:45 Nancy Kendrick (Wheaton College), “Berkeley and Mandeville on Theodicy and Agency”
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney College), “From the Querist to Nudge: A Critical Analysis of Forms of Paternalism”
11:30 Lunch
14:00 Kenneth Pearce (TCD), “Berkeley’s Immaterialist Monetary Policy”
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Dik Van Iten (Iowa State University), “The Ethical Foundations of The Querist”