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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... relation to competing philos- ophies with regard to common sense , and that issue is beyond the scope of the present paper.1 I will begin with the second of the two problems noted above . Within that context , statement ( d ) will be ...
... relation ; as we might say , for Berke- ley ' immediate perceive ' is a term that describes a factual perceptual relationship holding between an observer and some object . Berke- ley's term ' immediately perceives ' is nonpropositional ...
... relation- ships between specific sorts of sensible ideas , his immediate knowl- ledge that there is a pig before him is based on the immediate per- ception of different sensible ideas then occurring . That is , to utilize the ...
... relation to the mind is understood to be implied by the term ; and it is now commonly used by philosophers to denote the immediate objects of the understanding . But however oddly the proposition may sound in words , yet it includes ...
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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 |