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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... physical objects . or that ( b ) Each physical object is nothing but a collection of ideas . and neither of these claims , it would seem , is consistent with com- mon sense . Moreover , given the thesis that each idea exists when and ...
... physical objects are immediately perceived ; and that ( e ) physical ob- jects are public in the sense that more than one perceiver can often immediately perceive the same physical object ; and that ( f ) people often have immediate ...
... physical objects are sensible objects , that is , objects that are perceived by 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 ...
... physical objects . These several passages , together with the Berkeleyan claim that every- thing perceived by sense is immediately perceived , yield again the thesis that physical objects are immediately perceived ( = ( d ) ) . There is ...
... physical objects are immediately perceived , then , Berkeley needs to hold only that on many occasions some ideas are immediately perceived , and that these ideas are con- stituents of physical objects , so that by immediately ...
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 |