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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595216536
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's Tree written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick E. Kennon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146284300X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Bishop Berkeley's Tree written by Patrick E. Kennon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bishop Berkeleys Tree, the famous tree that fell in the forrest without making a sound, is a collection of 26 related stories. These tales of deception and self-deception, of children and criminals, of jokers and fanatics, of bigots and diplomats, of victims and villains, all explore some aspect of the relationship between truth and perception. Given the unstable nature of this relationship, all of these stories, even the most grim, should be read as comedies.
Author : Tom Stoneham
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198752370
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's World written by Tom Stoneham and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Stoneham offers a clear and detailed study of Berkeley's metaphysics and epistemology, as presented in his classic work Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, originally published in 1713 and still widely studied. Stoneham shows that Berkeley is an important and systematic philosopher whose work is still of relevance to philosophers today.
Author : Margaret Atherton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745417
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's Revolution in Vision written by Margaret Atherton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley's Essay towards a New Theory of Vision (1709), his first substantial publication, revolutionized the theory of vision. His approach provided the framework for subsequent work in the psychology of vision and remains influential to this day. Among philosophers, however, the New Theory has not always been read as a landmark in the history of scientific thought, but instead as a halfway house to Berkeley's later metaphysics. In this book, Margaret Atherton seeks to redress the balance through a commentary on and a reinterpretation of Berkeley's New Theory.
Author : Robert E. Johnson
Publisher : Roaring Forties Press
ISBN 13 : 1938901517
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Berkeley Walks written by Robert E. Johnson and published by Roaring Forties Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley Walks celebrates the things that make Berkeley such a wonderful walking city—diverse architecture, panoramic views, tree-lined neighborhoods, historic homes, unusual gardens, secret pathways, hidden parks, vibrant street life, trend-setting restaurants, and intriguing history. Fascinating and surprising sidelights include the apartment building from which Patty Hearst was kidnapped; Ted Kaczynski’s home before he became the Unabomber; and the residences of Nobel laureates and literary Berkeleyans such as Thornton Wilder, Ann Rice, and Philip K. Dick. Bob Johnson and Janet Byron—longtime city residents and tour guides—designed these 18 walks to showcase the many elements that make Berkeley’s neighborhoods, shopping districts, and academic areas such fun to explore. Visitors will discover a vibrant community beyond the University of California campus borders, while locals will be surprised and delighted by the treasures in their own backyards. Highlights of the book include a focus on architects Joseph Esherick, John Galen Howard, Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, James Plachek, Walter Ratcliff, Jr., and John Hudson Thomas, 100 archival and original photos, and 20 maps, including a map of Berkeley bookstores.
Author : C. J. McCracken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498067
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's Principles and Dialogues written by C. J. McCracken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets Berkeley's philosophy in its historical context by providing selections from influential and contemporary works.
Author : George S. Pappas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729314
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
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.
Author : Margaret Atherton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119532078
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Berkeley written by Margaret Atherton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of George Berkeley’s thought and the impact of his intellectual contributions to philosophy In this latest addition to the Blackwell Great Minds series, noted scholar of early modern philosophy Margaret Atherton examines Berkeley’s most influential work and demonstrates the significant conceptual impact of his ideas in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. A concise and rigorous primer on Berkeley’s essential writings and contributions to modern philosophy Written by a leading scholar of early modern philosophy Offers insight into the foundations of modern metaphysical and religious philosophy Equips readers to find firm footing in Berkeley’s wider body of published work in the canon of Western philosophy
Author : Daniel E. Flage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429639953
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's Doctrine of Notions written by Daniel E. Flage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1987, offers a reconstruction of Berkeley’s doctrine on notions by examining the implications of his repeated suggestion that there is a close relationship between his doctrine and his semantic theory. The study ties in with some of the most important topics in modern analytic philosophy, and casts important light on modern philosophical concerns as well as on Berkeley’s thought.
Author : Stefan Storrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192538071
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's Three Dialogues written by Stefan Storrie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of essays devoted to Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, a classic of early modern philosophy. Leading experts examine all the central issues in Berkeley's work. The Three Dialogues is a dramatization of Berkeley's philosophy in which the two protagonists Hylas and Philonous debate the full range of Berkeleyan themes: the rejection of material substance, the nature of perception and reality, the limits of human knowledge, and his approach to the perceived threats of skepticism, atheism and immorality. When Berkeley presented his first statement of his immaterialist philosophy in the Principles of Human Knowledge three years earlier he was met with incredulity - how could a sane person deny the existence of matter? Berkeley felt that a new approach was needed in order to bring people over to his novel point of view. This new effort was the Three Dialogues. In the preface to the Three Dialogues Berkeley stated that its aim was to "treat more clearly and fully of certain principles laid down” in the Principles. Esteem for Berkeley's work has increased significantly in recent decades, and this volume will be the starting-point for future research.
Author : Harry M. Bracken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401035679
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Early Reception of Berkeley’s Immaterialism 1710–1733 written by Harry M. Bracken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of Immanuel Kant, Berkeley had been called, among other things, a sceptic, an atheist, a solipsist, and an idealist. In our own day, however, the suggestion has been advanced that Berkeley is better understood if interpreted as a realist and man of common sense. Regardless of whether in the end one decides to treat him as a sub jective idealist or as a realist, I think it has become appropriate to inquire how Berkeley's own contemporaries viewed his philosophy. Heretofore the generally accepted account has been that they ignored him, roughly from the time he published the Principles of Human Knowledge until 1733 when Andrew Baxter's criticism appeared. The aim of the present study is to correct that account as well as to give some indication not only of the extent, but more importantly, the role and character of several of the earliest discussions. Secondarily, I have tried to give some clues as to the influence this early material may have had in forming the image of the "good" Bishop that emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century. For it is my hope that such clues may prove helpful in freeing us from the more severe strictures of the traditional interpretive dogmas.
Author : John Campbell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191025542
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's Puzzle written by John Campbell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge and conception of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: even if the things we experience (apples, tables, trees, etc), are mind-independent how does our sensory experience of them enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? George Berkeley thought that sensory experience can only provide us with the conception of mind-dependent things, things which cannot exist when they aren't being perceived. It's easy to dismiss Berkeley's conclusion but harder to see how to avoid it. In this book, John Campbell and Quassim Cassam propose very different solutions to Berkeley's Puzzle. For Campbell, sensory experience can be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things because it is a relation, more primitive than thought, between the perceiver and high-level objects and properties in the mind-independent world. Cassam opposes this 'relationalist' solution to the Puzzle and defends a 'representationalist' solution: sensory experience can give us the conception of mind-independent things because it represents its objects as mind-independent, but does so without presupposing concepts of mind-independent things. This book is written in the form of a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience. Although Berkeley's Puzzle frames the debate, the questions addressed by Campbell and Cassam aren't just of historical interest. They are among the most fundamental questions in philosophy.
Author : Aaron Garrett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441194878
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's 'Three Dialogues' written by Aaron Garrett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley's Three Dialogues is a key text in the history of philosophy-the dialogues are, with the exception of Hume's, arguably the most important philosophical dialogues written in English. In Berkeley's "Three Dialogues": A Reader's Guide, Aaron Garrett offers a clear and thorough account of this key philosophical work. The guide explores the complex and important ideas inherent in the text and provides a cogent survey of the reception and influence of Berkeley's work.
Author : Willis Doney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429633459
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Berkeley on Abstraction and Abstract Ideas written by Willis Doney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley’s critique of abstract ideas in the Introduction to Principles of Human Knowledge has provoked a great deal of commentary of various sorts. This anthology, first published in 1989, presents a selection of historically important and philosophically interesting discussions on Berkeley’s theories.
Author : Sandy Gimbal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Berkeley Street Tree Guide written by Sandy Gimbal and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertil Belfrage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441114785
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
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.
Author : Samuel C. Rickless
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648205
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Berkeley's Argument for Idealism written by Samuel C. Rickless and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel C. Rickless presents a novel interpretation of the thought of George Berkeley. In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713), Berkeley argues for the astonishing view that physical objects (such as tables and chairs) are nothing but collections of ideas (idealism); that there is no such thing as material substance (immaterialism); that abstract ideas are impossible (anti-abstractionism); and that an idea can be like nothing but an idea (the likeness principle). It is a matter of great controversy what Berkeley's argument for idealism is and whether it succeeds. Most scholars believe that the argument is based on immaterialism, anti-abstractionism, or the likeness principle. In Berkeley's Argument for Idealism, Rickless argues that Berkeley distinguishes between two kinds of abstraction, 'singling' abstraction and 'generalizing' abstraction; that his argument for idealism depends on the impossibility of singling abstraction but not on the impossibility of generalizing abstraction; and that the argument depends neither on immaterialism nor the likeness principle. According to Rickless, the heart of the argument for idealism rests on the distinction between mediate and immediate perception, and in particular on the thesis that everything that is perceived by means of the senses is immediately perceived. After analyzing the argument, Rickless concludes that it is valid and may well be sound. This is Berkeley's most enduring philosophical legacy.
