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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... means of the senses ( as opposed to be- ing " perceived " by means of a reasoned inference ) , and , he maintains , everything perceived by means of the senses is immediately per- ceived.3 Further , we know that Berkeley accepts ( b ) ...
... means ' immediate knowledge ' ( as do many other eighteenth - century writers ) . Since the other things he refers to are physical objects , in these passages it certainly appears that Berkeley is accepting ( f ) . Moreover , at ...
... means by ' immediate knowledge ' ( ' intuitive knowl- edge ' ) . Berkeley himself provided no definition of this term . But if we make the reasonable assumption that he follows Locke in his use of the term , we can make some headway ...
... means in his endorsement of ( f ) , with the following : ( 3 ) A person S immediately ( intuitively ) knows that h at a time t if and only if : ( i ) S knows that h at time t ; and , ( ii ) S would know that h at t even if his knowledge ...
... mean no more ) , than I am more certain of matter's existence than you or any other philosopher pretend to be.23 Another important relative of ( b ) is this : ( i ) Physical objects are nothing but combinations of sensible qualities ...
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 |