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Berkeley Conference on the Theory of Vision 22-31 July 1999

Place: University College, Dublin

Organizer: Bertil Belfrage

The following papers were presented:

Bertil Belfrage, “The structure of appearance in Berkeley's A New Theory of Vision”

Richard Glauser, “A New Theory of Vision and the structure of mediate perception”

Jean Michel Vienne, “Sort, likeness and activity of the mind in A New Theory of Vision”

Robert McKim, “Ideas, abstractions and the construction of the world in A New Theory of

Vision”

Wolfgang Breidert, “The connection of sight and touch in Berkeley’s A New Theory of Vision”

Margaret Atherton, “Lessons learned from A New Theory of Vision”

Robert Muehlmann, “Berkeley’s one-point argument”

George Pappas, “A New Theory of Vision and perceptual realism”

Richard Brook, “Berkeley’s theory of vision, reading through signs, and the language analogy”

Richard Schwartz, “Making maximum sense of minimum sensible”

Steven Rosenberg, “New theory of vision, not new language of vision”

Martha Bolton, “Locke and Berkeley: two extensions or one?”

Roselyn Dégremont, “Pictures and images: a study of the development of Berkeley’s theory of vision from A New Theory of Vision to TVV”

Silvia Parigi, “Berkeley and the history of the Molyneux problem”

Andrew Pyle, “Berkeley and Malebranche on vision”

Maria Teresa Monti, “The reception of Berkeley’s A New Theory of Vision among eighteenth-century physicians”

Kenneth Winkler, “Berkeley’s essay and Berkeley’s principles”

Georges Dicker, “Berkeley on the impossibility of abstracting primary from secondary qualities: Lockean rejoinders”

Lorne Falkenstein, “Reid’s reception of Berkeley’s A New Theory of Vision”

Kenneth Williford, “Berkeley’s A New Theory of Vision and the two introductions to the Principles”