"Bishop Berkeley's Ideas and Idealism," Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, University of Edinburgh, March 7-8, 2008.

Sponsored by The International Berkeley Society and Scots Philosophical Club Programme: Friday 7th March 6.30-8.30 Dr. Alasdair Richmond (Edinburgh) "Into Space With Bishop Berkeley" Saturday 8th March 10.00 -11.30 Prof. David Berman (Trinity College Dublin) "From Scepticism to Immaterialism and Descriptive Psychology then back to Siris" 11.45 - 1.15 Prof. Catherine Wilson (CUNY) "Berkeley and the Corpuscularian Philosophy" 2.45 - 4.15 Dr. Tom Stoneham (York) "Imagination and Representation in Berkeley and Collier" 4.30 - 6.00 Dr. Peter Baumann (Aberdeen) "Molyneux and Berkeley" Conference Fees: £15 (£12.50 Student / £10 Edinburgh PhilSoc Members) 

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Annual Conference, International Berkeley Society, Salve Regina University, June 26-28, 2008.

On June 26-28, 2008, the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island (http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/) will be the site of a major conference devoted to the study of the Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753). The event, which is sponsored by the International Berkeley Society, will include three days of presentations on Berkeley’s life and thought as well as visits to his home (Whitehall) and other sites associated with his 1729-31 stay in Rhode Island. For updated information, go to the conference website: http://philosophy.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/newport.html.

Mras, Gabreiele M. "Review of Kenneth Winkler, ed. CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BERKELEY." METAPSYCHOLOGY ONLINE REVIEWS October 9, 2007.

The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley, edited by Kenneth Winkler, is an impressive collection of twelve articles about a philosopher whose work has all too often been regarded as resting on some basic confusions or even being plainly unintelligible. The peculiarity of Berkeley's "subjective idealism" makes it indeed hard to understand how this way of overcoming skepticism could leave us with anything as object of knowledge. That, in addition to Berkeley's conviction that that realism had to be given up, and so that all we ever perceive are ideas, that matter is mind dependent, and that there are no causal relations, represents a challenge to anybody seeking to expound Berkeley's views. One of the aims of this Cambridge Companion therefore, is to make understandable how common sense and the doctrine "esse est (aut) percipi" could be thought to go together. A further aim is to place Berkeley in the philosophical as well as the scientific contexts of the times in which he developed his philosophical theories. . . . The complete review is: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=3861.

Deckard, Michael Funk. "Review of Costica Bradatan's THE OTHER BISHOP BERKELEY." METAPSYCHOLOGY ONLINE REVIEWS September 11, 2007

Costica Bradatan . . . avoids . . . contemporary readings of Berkeley. He scarcely mentions Locke or Hume and does not even go so far as to enter any of the contemporary analytical debates regarding Berkeley's thought. In fact, the Berkeley one reads of in Bradatan's book is so other that one scarcely recognizes him: Berkeley the Platonist, Berkeley the modest, Berkeley the alchemist, Berkeley the Utopian. Yet this is certainly a fascinating if not obscure Berkeley. Bradatan claims that, in his book, he wishes "to do justice to the historical truth, as far as this is possible, by pointing to the existence of another Berkeley, as it were, one in general unaccounted for in the mainstream analytic scholarship" (3). The question then that really comes to the fore here is whether Bradatan's way of seeing Berkeley is the real Berkeley. . . . Read more here: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=3813