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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... exists when and only when it is perceived . Yet Berkeley also claimed that his philosophy is 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 ...
Critical and Interpretive Essays Colin Murray Turbayne. ( c ) Each physical object exists when and only when it is perceived . Statement ( c ) , though , seems no more consistent with common sense than are ( a ) and ( b ) . A related ...
... exist in some other mind ; thus , when I shut my eyes , the things I saw may still exist , but it must be in some other mind . " 10 11 If we recall that Berkeley claims that everything perceived 8 GEORGE S. PAPPAS.
... exists when and only when it is perceived , and this leads to trouble . For claiming that ( b ) amounts to no more than what is expressed by ( h ) and ( i ) requires us to say that immediately perceived sensible qualities exist when and ...
... exists when and only when it is perceived . Thus , the foregoing remarks have Berkeley saying that all that ( b ) ... exist ' when applied to physical objects just that they are per- ceived . As Berkeley has Philonous say in regard to ...
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 |