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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... claims , it would seem , is consistent with com- mon sense . Moreover , given the thesis that each idea exists when and only when it is perceived , and the claim that ( b ) holds , we get Earlier versions of this paper were read at Ohio ...
... claims noted in ( d ) through ( g ) ? In what follows I will argue that Berkeley can consistently and perhaps even plausibly claim that ( b ) and ( c ) are compatible with common sense and also that there is nothing in his philosophy ...
... claim about infinite and finite perceivers . I am not considering this latter claim in this paper in any detail ; however , I will indicate at ap- propriate places why this omission does not threaten my arguments or their conclusions ...
... claim that every- thing perceived by sense is immediately perceived , yield again the thesis that physical objects ... claims , the 6 GEORGE S. PAPPAS.
Critical and Interpretive Essays Colin Murray Turbayne. formed by light rays as , Berkeley claims , the received view must hold . Those lines and angles are not perceived at all , he maintains , and so the received view must be incorrect ...
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 |