Mandeville in Context

May 25, 2012 - May 26, 2012
Department of philosophy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Fribourg
Switzerland

Speakers:

Béatrice Guion
Strasbourg University
James Harris
University of St. Andrews
Christian Maurer
Université de Fribourg
Francesca Pongiglione
Università degli Studi di Bologna
Eric Schliesser
University of Ghent
Mikko Tolonen
University of Helsinki

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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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