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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... consistent with common sense . Indeed , he repeatedly claims that he was a defender or champion of the views of common sense . But it is most difficult to see how Berkeleyan idealism is to be reconciled with common sense , let alone how ...
... consistent with common sense ? and , second , is Berkeleyan idealism consistent with the four claims noted in ( d ) through ( g ) ? In what follows I will argue that Berkeley can consistently and perhaps even plausibly claim that ( b ) ...
... consistent in doing so . To help see that he is , we need to clarify Berkeley's notion of im- mediate perception . Early in the Dialogues , Philonous asks Hylas : Are those things only perceived by the senses which are perceived imme ...
... consistent for Berkeley to maintain , as he does , that physical objects are often enough immediately perceived . Indeed , it is reasonable , on these assumptions , for Berkeley to accept ( d ) . The car analogy we have used is not ...
... consistency of ( d ) would go through , how- ever , even if we utilized this " no - suggestion " notion of immediate ... consistent with Berkeleyan idealism . 9 We turn now to ( e ) , which is the claim that different perceivers im ...
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 |