Essays On The Philosophy Of George Berkeley
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Author | : E. Sosa |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400947984 |
A tercentenary conference of March, 1985, drew to Newport, Rhode Island, nearly all the most distinguished Berkeley scholars now active. The conference was organized by the International Berkeley Society, with the support of several institutions and many people (whose help is acknowl edged below). This volume represents a selection of the lead papers deliv ered at that conference, most now revised. The Cartesian marriage of Mind and Body has proved an uneasy union. Each side has claimed supremacy and usurped the rights of the other. In anglophone philosophy Body has lately had it all pretty much its own way, most dramatically in the Disappearance Theory of Mind, whose varieties vary in appeal and sophistication, but uniformly shock sensibili ties. Only recently has Mind reasserted itself, yet the voices of support are already a swelling chorus. "Welcome," Berkeley would respond, since " ... all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth ... have not a subsis tence without a mind ... " (Principles, sect. 6). In fairness, Berkeley does playa Disappearance trick of his own - with Matter now into the hat. But his act is far subtler than any brute denial of the obvious, and seeks rather to explain than bluntly to reject. Perhaps we are today better prepared to appreciate his insights.
Author | : David Berman |
Publisher | : Irish Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Colin Murray Turbayne |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0816610665 |
Berkeley was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In contemporary philosophy the works of George Berkeley are considered models of argumentative discourse; his paradoxes have a further value to teachers because, like Zeno's, they challenge a beginning student to find the submerged fallacy. And as a final, triumphant perversion of Berkeley's intent, his central contribution is still commonly viewed as an argument for skepticism - the very position he tried to refute. This limited approach to Berkeley has obscured his accomplishments in other areas of thought - his account of language, his theories of meaning and reference, his philosophy of science. These subjects and others are taken up in a collection of twenty essays, most of them given at a conference in Newport, Rhode Island, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Berkeley's American sojourn of 1728–31. The essays constitute a broad survey of problems tackled by Berkeley and still of interest to philosophers, as well as topics of historical interest less familiar to modern readers. Its comprehensive scope will make this book appropriate for text use.
Author | : E. Sosa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1986-11-30 |
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ISBN | : 9789400947993 |
Author | : Stephen R.L. Clark |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-05-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0429590253 |
This book, first published in 1985, presents a key collection of essays on Berkeley’s moral and political philosophy. They form an introduction to, and analysis of, Berkeley’s immaterialist arguments, part of his consciously adopted strategy to subvert Enlightenment thought, which he saw as a danger to civil society.
Author | : Robert G. Muehlmann |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0271042281 |
Author | : George Berkeley |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1709 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : Tom Jones |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691217483 |
A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopher In George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity College Dublin to his later years as Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley brought his searching and powerful intellect to bear on the full range of eighteenth-century thought and experience. Jones brings vividly to life the complexities and contradictions of Berkeley’s life and ideas. He advanced a radical immaterialism, holding that the only reality was minds, their thoughts, and their perceptions, without any physical substance underlying them. But he put forward this counterintuitive philosophy in support of the existence and ultimate sovereignty of God. Berkeley was an energetic social reformer, deeply interested in educational and economic improvement, including for the indigenous peoples of North America, yet he believed strongly in obedience to hierarchy and defended slavery. And although he spent much of his life in Ireland, he followed his time at Trinity with years of travel that took him to London, Italy, and New England, where he spent two years trying to establish a university for Bermuda, before returning to Ireland to take up an Anglican bishopric in a predominantly Catholic country. Jones draws on the full range of Berkeley’s writings, from philosophical treatises to personal letters and journals, to probe the deep connections between his life and work. The result is a richly detailed and rounded portrait of a major Enlightenment thinker and the world in which he lived.
Author | : George Berkeley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521881358 |
This edition provides texts from the full range of Berkeley's contributions to philosophy, and sets them in their historical and philosophical contexts.
Author | : Stefan Storrie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018-01-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192538071 |
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.