“Unusual emptiness of the title-page” - Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the bees in Helsinki, 2014

June 12, 2014 - June 14, 2014
University of Helsinki

Helsinki
Finland

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June 12-14
“Unusual emptiness of the title-page” - Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the bees in Helsinki, 2014

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki

Thursday, June 12
10.00-10.15 Mikko Tolonen, Sari Kivistö & Markku Peltonen (Helsinki): Welcome
10.15-11.00 Harold J. Cook (Brown): “Treating of Bodies Medical and Political: Mandeville’s Materialism in the Wake of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes”
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 Hans W. Blom (Potsdam): “Human rationality and the mechanisms of the progress: Bernard Mandeville and the transformation of Dutch seventeenth-century political thought”
12.15-13.00 Beatrice Guion (Strasbourg): “Anatomizing the invisible Part of Man: Mandeville reading French Moralists”
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney): “Mandeville, the human sciences and collective properties”
14.45-15.30 Eric Schliesser (Ghent): “Mandeville's Fable and the Authority of Experts”
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.45 Francis McKee (Glasgow): TBC


Friday, June 13
09.00-09.45 Chris Tilmouth (Cambridge): “Mandeville the satirist and intellectual history”
09.45-10.30 Tim Stuart-Buttle (Oxford): “Locke and Mandeville on moral consequences of religion”
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.45 Lawrence Klein (Cambridge): “Shaftesbury and Mandeville as Moralists”
11.45-12.30 Christian Maurer (Fribourg): “Mandeville on Shaftesbury and the Stoics”
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 John Callanan (KCL): “Mandeville's Genealogy of Virtue”
14.15-15.00 Remy Debes (Memphis): “The Shape of Men: Mandeville’s Critique of Human Dignity”
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.15 Craig Smith (Glasgow): “The Ambiguity of Skilful Politicians”
16.15-17.00 Mauro Simonazzi (Camerino): “Vice is not a Crime. Law, Crime and Punishment in Mandeville's Thought”
17.00-17.30 Coffee
17.30-18.15 Jacqueline Taylor (San Francisco) & Emilio Mazza (Milan): “Mandeville and du Chatelet on the Love of Luxury”

Saturday, June 14
09.15-10.00 Andrea Branchi (Rome): “‘The Ticklish Foundation of Chastity’, Bernard Mandeville and Female Honour”
10.00-10.45 Aaron Garrett (Boston): “Women in the Science of Man”
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.00 Eugene Heath (SUNY): “A Little World by Itself: Self-Love and Cognition from Mandeville to Smith”
12.00-12.45 Spiros Tegos (Athens): “The moral portraitist and the moral caricaturist: Adam Smith's appropriation of Mandeville”
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.30 James A. Harris (St. Andrews): “"The Fable of the Bees" and the reduction of politics to a science”
14.30-15.15 Adriana Luna-Fabritius (CIDE): “Recasting Happiness and Luxury by Italian Political Economy: the Reading of Mandeville’s Fables of the Bees”
15.15-15.45 Coffee
15.45-16.30 Dario Castiglione (Exeter): “The Invisible Hand and the Skilful Politician: A Mandevillian Paradox?”
16.30 Closing

Mandeville in Helsinki symposium is free and open to all. Please register by email.

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