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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... Problem of Universals . . . . . Joseph Margolis .. 207 VIII THE " DOCTRINE OF SIGNS " and " THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE " 15 Berkeley's Doctrine of Signs . . .William McGowan ..... 231 16 Dynamical Implications of Berkeley's Doctrine of ...
... problems that concern present - day philosophers , such as the problems of perception , the distinction between primary and sec- ondary qualities , the problem of universals , the nature of explanation , the importance of language , and ...
... problem is that there are certain views that are indispu- tably commonsensical , and that Berkeley either explicitly ... problem concerns whether the set formed with ( b ) , ( c ) , and K as members is consistent . Statements ( d ) ...
... problems noted above . Within that context , statement ( d ) will be taken up first . I To help us see that Berkeley actually endorses statement ( d ) , let us consider the following passage : Wood , stones , fire , water , flesh , iron ...
... problem for my account of ( d ) concerns the term ' imme- diately perceives ' . It might be maintained that the crucial element in the concept of immediate perception is the lack of any suggestion , a point Berkeley himself brings up in ...
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 |