Mandeville in Context
Fribourg
Switzerland
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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 | Béatrice Guion (Strasbourg)
Did Mandeville read the Essais de morale? Bernard Mandeville and Pierre Nicole
11h10-12h20 | Eric Schliesser (Ghent)
Mandeville’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 Häubi (Fribourg)
Self-Deception and Self-Denial in Mandeville and Nietzsche
17h00-18h10 | Francesca Pongiglione (Milano)
Mandeville’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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May 20, 2012, 10:00am CET
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