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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... question is answered in the Principles , for instance at 37 : It will be argued that thus much at least is true , to wit , that we take away all corporeal substances . To this my answer is , that if the word substance be taken in the ...
... question . For example , in the normal case , if someone sees the attached fenders , tires , doors , windows , and trim on the driver's side of a car , then he also sees the car . And this is unquestionably so even though the observer ...
... question altogether . II It is difficult to think of anything less in line with common sense than ( b ) and ( c ) . If this is right , then it is unlikely that we will solve the first of the two problems proposed , and Berkeleyan ...
... question , see Peter Alexander , " Inferences About Seeing , " in Knowledge and Necessity , Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures , vol . 3 ( Lon- don : Macmillan , 1970 ) . 8. For example , in Works , II , p . 174 . 9. There are other ...
... question of the effect of relativity upon the " publicity " of objects : " But the same idea which is in my mind can- not be in yours or in any other mind . Does it not , therefore , follow from your principles that no two can see the ...
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 |