I’ve got two conferences coming up, and I don’t [have/get] to leave town for either of them.
First up (2-3 March) is the Auburn Philosophy Department’s annual conference; the topic is the philosophy of colour, and the speakers are some of the top names in the field. (I went to high school with one of them; he played my slave in Plautus’s Bacchides.) Poster here, other info here. The schedule hasn’t been posted yet, but sessions run 9-5 on Friday and 10-5 on Saturday, at the Auburn art museum.
Next (8-10 March) is the Austrian Scholars Conference; schedule here. I’ll be speaking on “Austro-Libertarian Themes in Three Prague Authors: Čapek, Kafka, and Hašek.” Czech your calendars!
Roderick, do you know anyone conversant in geometric optics? I’m trying to read Berkeley’s New Theory of Vision, but right up front I run into a diagram of which I can’t make heads or tails.
Afraid I don’t know of anyone.
I just glanced at the beginning of the New Theory and I suspect I know the diagram you’re talking about. It’s a complete enigma to me as well.
I asked someone at the colour conference and they said the best guide to Berkeley on vision is Margaret Atherton’s Berkeley’s Revolution in Vision. I don’t know whether it explains the diagrams.
Thanks.