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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... reason to think that Berkeley is committed to holding that each idea is private in the sense described . After all , any idea immediately perceived by a finite perceiver is also immediately perceived by God . So , Berkeley is com ...
... reason , where the latter is inferential or derivative knowledge , based on what is immediately perceived . Since , as we have seen , Berkeley maintains that physical objects are often immediately perceived , Principles , sect . 18 ...
... reason to think that he accepts ( f ) ; physical objects are among the things known by sense , without in- ference , 15 To see if Berkeley is consistent in accepting ( f ) , we need to expli- cate what he means by ' immediate knowledge ...
... reasons cited earlier in connection with ( d ) and ( e ) , we may also conclude that ( f ) is con- sistent with Berkeleyan idealism . 19 There is an important and powerful objection facing this last con- clusion , however . Intuitive or ...
... reason why beliefs about what one would immediately perceive in specific circumstances would not qualify as certain given Berke- ley's use of the term . Hence , ( b ) and ( g ) are consistent . With this result , we also undercut 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 |