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Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Ernest Sosa

    1. Department of Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Historical Library (SYHL, volume 29)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Metaphysics: Comparison with Leibniz and Locke

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Phenomenalisms of Leibniz and Berkeley

      • Margaret D. Wilson
      Pages 3-22

    3. Something-I-Know-Not-What: Berkeley on Locke on Substance

      • Daniel Garber
      Pages 23-42

  3. Thought and Reference: I. Abstract Ideas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Berkeley’s Anti-Abstractionism

      • Margaret Atherton
      Pages 45-60

    3. Berkeley’s Objection to Abstract Ideas and Unconceived Objects

      • Martha Brandt Bolton
      Pages 61-81

  4. Thought and Reference: II. Imagination and Archetypes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Berkeley’s Imagination

      • Ian Tipton
      Pages 85-102

    3. Berkeley on “Archetype”

      • Geneviève Brykman
      Pages 103-112

  5. Epistemology: God and Matter

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Divine Ideas and Berkeley’S Proofs of God’s Existence

      • M. R. Ayers
      Pages 115-128

    3. Berkeley’s Divine Language Argument

      • A. David Kline
      Pages 129-142

    4. Berkeley and Epistemology

      • Robert Merrihew Adams
      Pages 143-161

  6. Perception: Visuals and Immediate Perception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. On the Status of Visuals in Berkeley’s New Theory of Vision

      • Phillip D. Cummins
      Pages 165-194

    3. Berkeley and Immediate Perception

      • George S. Pappas
      Pages 195-213

  7. Historical Scholarship: Interpretation and Reception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. A New Approach to Berkeley’s Philosophical Notebooks

      • Bertil Belfrage
      Pages 217-230

    3. On the Early Reception of Berkeley in Germany

      • Wolfgang Breidert
      Pages 231-241
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About this book

A tercentenary conference of March, 1985, drew to Newport, Rhode Island, nearly all the most distinguished Berkeley scholars now active. The conference was organized by the International Berkeley Society, with the support of several institutions and many people (whose help is acknowl­ edged below). This volume represents a selection of the lead papers deliv­ ered at that conference, most now revised. The Cartesian marriage of Mind and Body has proved an uneasy union. Each side has claimed supremacy and usurped the rights of the other. In anglophone philosophy Body has lately had it all pretty much its own way, most dramatically in the Disappearance Theory of Mind, whose varieties vary in appeal and sophistication, but uniformly shock sensibili­ ties. Only recently has Mind reasserted itself, yet the voices of support are already a swelling chorus. "Welcome," Berkeley would respond, since " ... all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth ... have not a subsis­ tence without a mind ... " (Principles, sect. 6). In fairness, Berkeley does playa Disappearance trick of his own - with Matter now into the hat. But his act is far subtler than any brute denial of the obvious, and seeks rather to explain than bluntly to reject. Perhaps we are today better prepared to appreciate his insights.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, USA

    Ernest Sosa

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley

  • Editors: Ernest Sosa

  • Series Title: Synthese Historical Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4798-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2405-2Published: 30 November 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8628-8Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4798-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0082-111X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 273

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy

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