BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T193417Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20120525T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20120526T180000 SUMMARY:Mandeville in Context UID:20260609T175421Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Fribourg\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:

The workshop aims at exploring the ideas of the 18th-century philosopher\, writer and physician \;Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) in the context of other thinkers\, for example Hobbes\, Spinoza\, \;Nicole\, Shaftesbury\, Hutcheson\, Hume\, Smith\, Rousseau etc.

Programme:

Friday\, 25 May 2012

09h30-09h40 | Introduction
09h40-10h50 | Bé\;atrice Guion (Strasbourg)
Did Mandeville read the Essais de morale? Bernard Mandeville and Pierre Nicole
11h10-12h20 | Eric Schliesser (Ghent)
Mandeville&rsquo\;s Role in the Once-Respectable Tradition of Anti-Mathematics: A Whirlwind Tour With \;Stops at Spinoza\, Hume\, Diderot\, Buffon\, and Even (Perhaps) Adam Smith

14h00-15h10 | Christian Maurer (Fribourg)
Mandeville and Campbell on Fashionable Clothes\, Luxury and Vice
15h30-16h40 | Florian Hä\;ubi (Fribourg)
Self-Deception and Self-Denial in Mandeville and Nietzsche
17h00-18h10 | Francesca Pongiglione (Milano)
Mandeville&rsquo\;s Contradictions in His Theory of the Utility of Poverty

Saturday\, 26 May 2012

9h30-10h40 | Hans Blom (Rotterdam / Potsdam)
Reading the Dialogues
11h00-12h10 | Mikko Tolonen (Helsinki / St. Andrews)
Tale of Two Mandevilles: The Difference Between Fable of the Bees and Part II

14h00-16h00 | Roundtable Session on Methodological Issues in History of Philosophy

Participation is free\, but please register by May 20th.

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For further information\, a detailed program and registration please contact the coordinator \;(christian.maurer@unifr.ch) or consult the following website:

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