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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... relativity " of sensible qualities , by which perceived features of objects vary for different observers . Commentators have differed , however , on the significance of these references . Berkeley's editors Luce and Jessop , for ...
... Relativity in the Principles and Dialogues A. The Relativity Argument 4 Berkeley devotes a few numbers of the Principles to argumentation based on the changing appearance of sensible qualities in different situations . But he concludes ...
... relativity at this time ; he will not ascribe the above arguments to himself , only to other philoso- phers . The Dialogues also contains several suggestions of a universal rela- tivity , but these are more frequent and emphatic than in ...
... Relativity The Principles does not forthrightly confront any implications of the concept of relativity . Berkeley does mention the objection that under his doctrine " things are every moment annihilated and created anew " because they ...
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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 |