期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2016
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：iii-viii
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：The year 2014 marked the 300th anniversary of the publication ofBernard Mandeville’s Fable of the bees, or private vices, publick benefits.To celebrate this occasion, as well as its own centennial, the ErasmusUniversity Rotterdam organized an international conference on the workof Mandeville, its historical and intellectual context, and its presentrelevance, on June 6, 2014. The conference was organized around threekeynote lectures,1 which discussed a different field Mandeville workedon or influenced: science and medicine, moral and political philosophy,and political economy. Papers presented at the conference rangedthematically from the co-evolution of commerce, medicine and moralphilosophy in the Dutch Republic, via Mandeville’s attitudes to religionto the social and intellectual context of his analysis of the passions.
