Past News: Report on Helsinki Conference...

at the University of Helsinki, Finland
6-9 August 2007

The official conference photo with all of the participants on the island fortress of Suomenlinna.(L-R): Steve Daniel, Wolfgang Breidert, Marlene Breidert, Roomet Jakapi, Bertil Belfrage, Birgit Belfrage, Howard Robinson, Marc Hight, Luc Peterschmitt, Geneviève Brykman, Mary O'Gorman, Pascal O'Gorman, Georges Brykman, Alvina Dicker, Georges Dicker, George Caffentzis, Richard Brook, Ville Paukkonen, Susan Brook, Talia Bettcher, Charles McCracken, Jani Hakkarainen, Chris Pappas, Daniel Flage, George Pappas, McCracken, Mary Drunga, Mykolas Drunga, Manfred Holler, Robert Bolton, Martha Bolton, Tom Stoneham, Timo Airaksinen.	A regal picture of Wolfgang Breidert on the ferry returning from Suomenlinna.   Remember to submit articles and notes to Berkeley Studies, a blind, peer-reviewed journal.
The Irish embassy in Helsinki hosted a reception for the participants. Here Timo Airaksinen, Wolfgang Breidert, and Bertil Belfrage pose with our host, the charges d'affairs of the Irish embassy.	One of the tables at the conference dinner. (Left, clockwise around table): Ville Paukkonen, Howard Robinson, Marc Hight, Steve Daniel, Breaux Daniel, Timo Airaksinen, Georges Brykman, Geneviève Brykman, Talia Bettcher, and Daniel Flage.
Another table at the dinner. Tom Stoneham, Manfred Holler, George Caffentzis, Romet Jakapi, Jani Hakkarainen, Luc Peterschmitt, Mary O'Gorman, and Pascal O'Gorman.	Another table at the dinner. Mary Stoneham, Birgit Belfrage, Bertil Belfrage, Richard Brook, Susan Brook, Mary Drunga, Mykolas Drunga, Marlene Breidert, and Wolfgang Breidert.
Presentations (listed in order of delivery) Bertil Belfrage, "'Ideas' in Section One of Berkeley's Principles" Martha Bolton, "Berkeley on Perception, Judgment, Suggestion and Inference" Daniel Flage, "Analysis in Berkeley's New Theory of Vision" Luc Peterschmitt, "The New Theory of Vision: Science or Metaphysics?" Mykolas Drunga, "Berkeley and the Time-gap Argument" Geneviève Brykman, "Is Immaterialism a Roundabout Way to Faith?" Georges Dicker, "Another Whack at Berkeley: a Critical Analysis of Principles 1-7" Stephen Daniel, "The Pervasiveness of Stoic Elements in Berkeley's Thought" Howard Robinson, "Two Berkeliean Arguments about the Nature of Space" Wolfgang Breidert, "Representation in Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics"	George Pappas, "Berkeley's Treatment of Scepticism" Kenneth Winkler, "'Marvellous Emptiness': Berkeley on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness" Richard Brook, "Does Berkeley Need a Subconscious?" Ville Paukkonen, "Berkeley on Self-Knowledge" Marc Hight, "Of Brutes and Men: What the Nature of Beasts can tell us about Berkeley's Conception of the Mind" Roomet Jakapi, "Berkeley and the Disembodied Soul" Timo Airaksinen, "Berkeley on Newton in Siris" Tom Stoneham, "Arthur Collier on Imagination and Inexistence" George Caffentzis, "Berkeley and Hume on Money, Notions, and Conventions" Talia Bettcher, "Abstraction: Berkeley against Locke" Jani Hakkarainen, "Hume and Berkeley's Repugnancy Argument against the Primary Secondary Qualities Distinction"