Berkeley: Critical and Interpretive EssaysColin Murray Turbayne U of Minnesota Press - 340 Seiten 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. |
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... Vision when he argues that since distance is not immediately seen , then the visual perception of distance must be dependent on some other perception . And , indeed , he argues that the visual perception of distance is so dependent ...
... vision ; rather , they are members of a group , just as individual sensible ideas are members of the collections that make up physical objects . And the needed inference works just as well in the troop case as it does in the car case ...
... Vision , in Works , I , pp . 171-74 . The relevant notion of immediate perception is clearly discernible in Berkeley's characterization of what mediate ( or indirect ) perception is , namely that perception which occurs only if some ...
... Vision ; whether acceptance of ( d ) can be brought into line with Berkeley's oft - made claim that , e.g. , nothing can be immediately seen but light and colors ; and the problem of how one can immediately perceive a physical object by ...
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Inhalt
IDEAS AND PERCEPTION | 33 |
METHOD AND MATHEMATICS | 67 |
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES | 93 |
SPACE AND TIME | 125 |
AETHER AND CORPUSCLES | 157 |
IDEALISM AND UNIVERSALS | 195 |
THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNS and THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE | 229 |
MIND | 271 |
A Bibliography of George Berkeley 19631979 | 313 |
Indexes | 331 |