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Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy

Author : Stephen Hartley Daniel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802093485
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy written by Stephen Hartley Daniel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley (1685-1753) is perhaps most famous for his assertion that our knowledge of the world is nothing other than the experience of our ideas. Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy examines this aspect of Berkeley's thought, arguing that such a viewpoint assumes that physical objects and minds are better understood when discussed in the contexts of science, morality, and religion. This collection confronts the question: how can we know anything about the world if all we know are our ideas? Comprised of eleven previously unpublished essays by leading scholars in the field, Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy demonstrates how things in the world are intrinsically related to the sequence of experiences that constitute minds. This collection also discusses how the harmony of experience reveals strategies for recognizing the inherently active character of reality. Ultimately, this volume represents a major contribution to the study of Berkeley's philosophy by critiquing the tendency to generalize his thought as a version of theologically modified solipsism. In this way, it is a unique and invaluable addition to Berkeley scholarship.

Berkeley's Thought

Author : George S. Pappas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729314
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's Thought written by George S. Pappas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original account of Bishop George Berkeley's epistemological and metaphysical theories, George S. Pappas seeks to determine precisely what doctrines the philosopher held and what arguments he put forward to support them. Specifically, Pappas overturns accepted opinions about Berkeley's famous attack on the Lockean doctrine of abstract ideas. Berkeley's criticism of these ideas had been thought relevant only to his views on language and to his nominalism; Pappas persuasively argues that Berkeley's ideas about abstraction are crucial to nearly all of the fundamental principles that he defends.Pappas demonstrates how an adequate appreciation of Berkeley's views on abstraction can lead to an improved understanding of his important principle of esse is percipi, and of the arguments Berkeley proposes in support of this principle. Pappas also takes up Berkeley's widely rejected claim to be a philosopher of common sense. He assesses the validity of this self-description and considers why Berkeley might have chosen to align himself with a commonsense position. Pappas shows how three core concepts—abstraction, perception, and common sense—are central to and interdependent in the work of one of the major figures of early modern Western thought.

George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment

Author : Silvia Parigi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048192439
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment written by Silvia Parigi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley was considered "the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century". This hyperbolic statement refers both to Berkeley’s life and thought; in fact, he always considered himself a pioneer called to think and do new things. He was an empiricist well versed in the sciences, an amateur of the mechanical arts, as well as a metaphysician; he was the author of many completely different discoveries, as well as a very active Christian, a zealous bishop and the apostle of the Bermuda project. The essays collected in this volume, written by some leading scholars, aim to reconstruct the complexity of Berkeley’s figure, without selecting "major" works, nor searching for "coherence" at any cost. They will focus on different aspects of Berkeley’s thought, showing their intersections; they will explore the important contributions he gave to various scientific disciplines, as well as to the eighteenth-century philosophical and theological debate. They will highlight the wide influence that his presently most neglected or puzzling books had at the time; they will refuse any anachronistical trial of Berkeley’s thought, judged from a contemporary point of view.

The Development of Berkeley's Philosophy

Author : G. A. Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317842510
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Berkeley's Philosophy written by G. A. Johnston and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. This is part of a fifteen volume series reproducing classic studies and including never before published titles. In his book the author throws light on the evolution of Berkeley’s thought and philosophy by a careful study of his works in their chronological sequence and by detailed reference to his relations with his predecessors and contemporaries.

Berkeley: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Talia Mae Bettcher
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826489907
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Talia Mae Bettcher and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides a cogent and reliable survey of the various concepts and paradoxes of George Berkeley's thought.

George Berkeley and Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Stephen H. Daniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192893890
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book George Berkeley and Early Modern Philosophy written by Stephen H. Daniel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. Daniel does not assume that thinkers like Descartes, Malebranche, or Locke define for Berkeley the context in which he develops his own thought. Instead, he indicates how Berkeley draws on a tradition that informed his early training and that challenges much of the early modern thought with which he is often associated. Specifically, this book indicates how Berkeley's distinctive treatment of mind (as the activity whereby objects are differentiated and related to one another) highlights how mind neither precedes the existence of objects nor exists independently of them. This distinctive way of understanding the relation of mind and objects allows Berkeley to appropriate ideas from his contemporaries in ways that transform the issues with which he is engaged. The resulting insights--for example, about how God creates the minds that perceive objects--are only now starting to be fully appreciated.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley

Author : Bertil Belfrage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441128271
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley written by Bertil Belfrage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to his theory of 'immaterialism' and Schopenhauer's regard of him as the 'father of idealism', George Berkeley (1685-1753) is one of the most important thinkers of the Early Modern period. The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley is a comprehensive one volume reference guide to his life, thought and work. In twenty six original essays, a team of leading international scholars of Modern Philosophy cover all of Berkeley's writings including unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, thus providing readers with a complete and accessible source of information to the entire corpus of Berkeley's writings. The book includes extended essays on key themes in Berkeley's thought as well as sections covering Berkeley's life and times, and also his intellectual influence and legacy.

The Development of Berkeley's Philosophy

Author : George Alexander Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Berkeley's Philosophy written by George Alexander Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Development of Berkeley's Philosophy

Author : G. A. Johnston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330317907
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Berkeley's Philosophy written by G. A. Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Development of Berkeley's Philosophy No apology would seem to be required for an attempt to examine the historical development of Berkeley's philosophy as a whole. In this book I have tried to throw light on the evolution of Berkeley's thought by a careful study of his works in their chronological sequence and by detailed reference to his relations with his predecessors and con temporaries. I have naturally devoted most attention to what is central in Berkeley's philosophy - his metaphysics and theory of knowledge, - but I have not neglected the other problems that were touched by his wide-roving mind. Every student of Berkeley owes a debt of enduring gratitude to the careful and loving work of Campbell Fraser. In addition to his indispensable commentaries and memoirs, I have sought help from every source that seemed likely to afford it. In general, however, I have found Berkeley to be his own best interpreter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Berkeley's Three Dialogues

Author : Stefan Storrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198755686
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's Three Dialogues written by Stefan Storrie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of essays on Berkeley's Three Dialogues, a classic of early modern philosophy. Leading experts cover all the central issues in the text: the rejection of material substance, the nature of perception and reality, the limits of human knowledge, and the perceived threats of skepticism, atheism, and immorality.

Berkeley

Author : Daniel E. Flage
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745682715
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley written by Daniel E. Flage and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish philosopher George Bishop Berkeley was one of the greatest philosophers of the early modern period. Along with David Hume and John Locke he is considered one of the fathers of British Empiricism. Berkeley is a clear, concise, and sympathetic introduction to George Berkeley’s philosophy, and a thorough review of his most important texts. Daniel E. Flage explores his works on vision, metaphysics, morality, and economics in an attempt to develop a philosophically plausible interpretation of Berkeley’s oeuvre as whole. Many scholars blur the rejection of material substance (immaterialism) with the claim that only minds and things dependent upon minds exist (idealism). However Flage shows how, by distinguishing idealism from immaterialism and arguing that Berkeley’s account of what there is (metaphysics) is dependent upon what is known (epistemology), a careful and plausible philosophy emerges. The author sets out the implications of this valuable insight for Berkeley’s moral and economic works, showing how they are a natural outgrowth of his metaphysics, casting new light on the appreciation of these and other lesser-known areas of Berkeley’s thought. Daniel E. Flage’s Berkeley presents the student and general reader with a clear and eminently readable introduction to Berkeley’s works which also challenges standard interpretations of Berkeley’s philosophy.

Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy

Author : Timo Airaksinen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443828165
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy written by Timo Airaksinen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley (1685–1753) is, with John Locke and David Hume, one of the three major figures in the British empiricist school of philosophy. He has been the centre of much attention recently and his philosophical profile has gradually changed. In the 20th century he was almost exclusively known for his denial of the existence of matter (as this term was defined in those days), but today it is no longer reasonable to confine an account of Berkeley to the challenging philosophical inventions that he published when he was a young fellow at Trinity College in Dublin. This is a welcome trend. It shows Berkeley as a contributor not only to epistemology, metaphysics and moral and social philosophy, but also to a wide range of subjects including mathematics, philosophy of science, empirical psychology, political economy and monetary policy. The present collection aims at meeting this new trend by presenting a broad and comprehensive picture of Berkeley’s works in their historical context. The contributors are some of the finest international experts in the field. The editors hope that this collection will show George Berkeley as he was: a wide-ranging, widely influential and courageous philosophical innovator. This volume has been published to celebrate the 300th anniversary of George Berkeley’s Principles.

Idealism and Christian Philosophy

Author : Steven B. Cowan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501335863
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Idealism and Christian Philosophy written by Steven B. Cowan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to contemporary philosophical problems, metaphysical idealism-or Berkeleyan immaterialism-is not taken seriously by most philosophers, not to mention the typical Christian layperson. This state of affairs deserves some attempt at rectification, since Idealism has considerable explanatory power as a metaphysical thesis and provides numerous practical and theoretical benefits. Such thinkers as George Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards believed that Idealism is especially amenable to a Christian perspective, both because it provides a plausible way of conceptualizing the world from a theistic standpoint and because it effectively addresses skeptical challenges to the Christian faith. The contributors to this volume explore a variety of ways in which the case can be made for this claim, including potential solutions to philosophical problems related to the nature of time, the ontology of physical objects, the mind-body problem, and the nature of science.

Berkeley's A Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge

Author : P. J. E. Kail
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001781
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's A Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge written by P. J. E. Kail and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid and comprehensive introduction to one of Berkeley's major works which mirrors the structure of that work.

Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Author : P. J. E. Kail
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139915819
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge written by P. J. E. Kail and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a crucial text in the history of empiricism and in the history of philosophy more generally. Its central and seemingly astonishing claim is that the physical world cannot exist independently of the perceiving mind. The meaning of this claim, the powerful arguments in its favour, and the system in which it is embedded, are explained in a highly lucid and readable fashion and placed in their historical context. Berkeley's philosophy is, in part, a response to the deep tensions and problems in the new philosophy of the early modern period and the reader is offered an account of this intellectual milieu. The book then follows the order and substance of the Principles whilst drawing on materials from Berkeley's other writings. This volume is the ideal introduction to Berkeley's Principles and will be of great interest to historians of philosophy in general.

The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190873434
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley is a compendious examination of a vast array of topics in the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, the famous idealist and most illustrious Irish philosopher. Berkeley is best known for his denial of the existence of material substance and his insistence that the only things that exist in the universe are minds (including God) and their ideas; however, Berkeley was a polymath who contributed to a variety of different disciplines, not well distinguished from philosophy in the eighteenth century, including the theory and psychology of vision, the nature and functioning of language, the debate over infinitesimals in mathematics, political philosophy, economics, chemistry (including his favoured panacea, tar-water), and theology. This volume includes contributions from thirty-four expert commentators on Berkeley's philosophy, some of whom provide a state-of-the-art account of his philosophical achievements, and some of whom place his philosophy in historical context by comparing and contrasting it with the views of his contemporaries (including Mandeville, Collier, and Edwards), as well as with philosophers who preceded him (such as Descartes, Locke, Malebranche, and Leibniz) and others who succeeded him (such as Hume, Reid, Kant, and Shepherd).

Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World

Author : Kenneth L. Pearce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192507540
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World written by Kenneth L. Pearce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Ideas are understood as pure phenomenal 'feels' which are momentarily had by a single perceiver, then vanish. Surprisingly, Berkeley tries to sell this idealistic philosophical system as a defense of common-sense and an aid to science. However, both common-sense and Newtonian science take the perceived world to be highly structured in a way that Berkeley's system does not appear to allow. Kenneth L. Pearce argues that Berkeley's solution to this problem lies in his innovative philosophy of language. The solution works at two levels. At the first level, it is by means of our conventions for the use of physical object talk that we impose structure on the world. At a deeper level, the orderliness of the world is explained by the fact that, according to Berkeley, the world itself is a discourse 'spoken' by God - the world is literally an object of linguistic interpretation. The structure that our physical object talk - in common-sense and in Newtonian physics - aims to capture is the grammatical structure of this divine discourse. This approach yields surprising consequences for some of the most discussed issues in Berkeley's metaphysics. Most notably, it is argued that, in Berkeley's view, physical objects are neither ideas nor collections of ideas. Rather, physical objects, like forces, are mere quasi-entities brought into being by our linguistic practices.