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Author | : Stephen Hartley Daniel |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Overall, the essays indicate that, for Berkeley, our apprehension of the world as real depends on recognizing how the world expressed by our ideas is not a mere aggregate of disconnected bodies but is rather an integrated unity of the things we experience.
Author | : Keota Fields |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739142976 |
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Berkeley: Ideas, Immaterialism, and Objective Presence offers a novel interpretation of the arc of George Berkeley's philosophical thought, from his theory of vision through his immaterialism and finally to his proof of God's existence. Keota Fields unifies these themes to focus on Berkeley's use of the Cartesian doctrine of objective presence, which demands causal explanations of the content of ideas. This is particularly so with respect to Berkeley's arguments for immaterialism. One of those arguments is typically read as a straightforward transitivity argument. After identifying material bodies with sensible objects, and the latter with ideas of sense, Berkeley concludes that putative material bodies are actually identical to collections of ideas of sense. George Pappas has recently defended an alternative reading that grounds Berkeley's immaterialism in his rejection of what Pappas calls category-transcendent abstract ideas: abstract ideas of beings, entia, or existence. Fields uses Pappas's interpretation as a framework for understanding Berkeley's immaterialism in terms of transcendental arguments. Early moderns routinely used the doctrine of objective presence to justify transcendental arguments for the existence of material substance. The claim was that physical qualities are necessary for any causal explanation of the content of sensory ideas; since those qualities are represented to perceivers as ontologically dependent, material substance is the necessary condition for the existence of physical qualities and a fortiori any causal explanation of the content of sensory ideas. On the reading defended here, Berkeley rejects Locke's transcendental argument for the existence of material substratum on the grounds that it turns decisively on the aforementioned category-transcendent abstract ideas, which Berkeley rejects as logically inconsistent. In its place, Berkeley offers his own transcendental argument designed to show that only minds and ideas exist. He uses that argument as a proof of God's existence-and ultimately to argue that the emergence of meaning from a material world simply cannot be explained. A portrait emerges of a thinker deeply engaged with the theories of his time, yet one who is captivated by the question of how meaning arises in the world. Students and scholars of the history of philosophy, particularly early modern history and the British Empiricists, will find this book to be a valuable addition to their collections.
Author | : Kenneth P. Winkler |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1989-04-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191520071 |
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David Hume wrote that Berkeley's arguments `admit of no answer but produce no conviction'. This book aims at the kind of understanding of Berkeley's philosophy that comes from seeing how we ourselves might be brought to embrace it. Berkeley held that matter does not exist, and that the sensations we take to be caused by an indifferent and independent world are instead caused directly by God. Nature becomes a text, with no existence apart from the spirits who transmit and receive it. Kenneth P. Winkler presents these conclusions as natural (though by no means inevitable) consequences of Berkeley's reflections on such topics as representation, abstraction, necessary truth, and cause and effect. In the closing chapters Proefssor Winkler offers new interpretations of Berkeley's view on unperceived objects, corpuscularian science, and our knowledge of God and other minds.
Author | : Stefan Storrie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198755686 |
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This is the first volume of essays on Berkeley's Three Dialogues, a classic of early modern philosophy. Leading experts cover all the central issues in the text: the rejection of material substance, the nature of perception and reality, the limits of human knowledge, and the perceived threats of skepticism, atheism, and immorality.
Author | : Samuel C. Rickless |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199669422 |
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In the early 18th century George Berkeley made the astonishing claim that physical objects such as tables and chairs are nothing but collections of ideas. Samuel Rickless presents a new account of Berkeley's controversial argument, and suggests it is the philosopher's greatest legacy: not only is it valid, but it may well be sound.
Author | : Georges Dicker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195381467 |
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Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, Georges Dicker here examines both the destructive and the constructive sides of Berkeley's thought, against the background of the mainstream views that he rejected.
Author | : John Russell Roberts |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2007-05-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195313933 |
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Berkeley claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense. Roberts argues that understanding the basic connection between Berkeley's philosophy requires that we develop a better understanding of the principle components of his positive metaphyics.
Author | : Stephen H. Daniel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192893890 |
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Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. Daniel does not assume that thinkers like Descartes, Malebranche, or Locke define for Berkeley the context in which he develops his own thought. Instead, he indicates how Berkeley draws on a tradition that informed his early training and that challenges much of the early modern thought with which he is often associated. Specifically, this book indicates how Berkeley's distinctive treatment of mind (as the activity whereby objects are differentiated and related to one another) highlights how mind neither precedes the existence of objects nor exists independently of them. This distinctive way of understanding the relation of mind and objects allows Berkeley to appropriate ideas from his contemporaries in ways that transform the issues with which he is engaged. The resulting insights--for example, about how God creates the minds that perceive objects--are only now starting to be fully appreciated.
Author | : Warren E. Steinkraus |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download New Studies in Berkeley's Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why another book on Berkeley? For one thing, because he is so curiously modern. He was one of the pioneers of the empiricism and nominalism so popular today. He discussed with great clearness many of the issues with which present-day philosophers are concerned--the status of sense-data, the nature of causation, the relation of primary to secondary qualities, the problems of universals, the importance of language, the existence of other selves, and how we communicate with them.
Author | : George Berkeley |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1709 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Download An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle