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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... ideas and collections of them . Ideas are themselves construed as nonmaterial mental entities each of which exists when and only when it is perceived . Yet Berkeley also claimed that his philosophy is consistent with common sense ...
... ideas are immediately perceived , and that these ideas are con- stituents of physical objects , so that by immediately perceiving these constituents , one immediately perceives the physical object in ques- tion . Just as one need not ...
... ideas are allegedly private in the sense that any idea , or group of them , immediately perceived by one individual , is not ( and perhaps cannot be ) immediately perceived by anyone else . So it is concluded that no two percipients ...
... ideas , his immediate knowl- ledge that there is a pig before him is based on the immediate per- ception of different sensible ideas then occurring . That is , to utilize the terminology introduced above , his current justification for ...
... ideas in our minds , often make , I will not say uncertain conjectures , but sure and well - founded predictions concerning the ideas we shall be af- fected with , pursuant to a great train of actions , and be enabled to pass a right ...
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 |