Berkeley : critical and interpretive essays / Colin M. Turbayne, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turbayne, Colin Murray.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.

Berkeley, George.

Physical Description:

xii, 340 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fina.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

I: COMMON SENSE AND RELATIVISM

1 Berkeley, Perception, and Common Sense

2 Berkeley's Commitment to Relativism

II: IDEAS AND PERCEPTION

3 On Taking Ideas Seriously

4 The Concept of Immediate Perception in Berkeley's Immaterialism

III: METHOD AND MATHEMATICS

5 Microscopes and Philosophical Method in Berkeley

6 Berkeley and Tymoczko on Mystery in Mathematics

IV: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES

7 Berkeley on the Limits of Mechanistic Explanation

8 Did Berkeley Completely Misunderstand the Basis of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction in Locke?

V: SPACE AND TIME

9 The Spaces of Berkeley's World

10 On Being "Embrangled" by Time

VI: AETHER AND CORPUSCLES

11 The "Philosopher by Fire" in Berkeley's Alciphron

12 Locke, Berkeley, and Corpuscular Scepticism

VII: IDEALISM AND UNIVERSALS

13 Berkeley's Idealism Revisited

14 Berkeley and Others on the Problem of Universals

VIII: THE "DOCTRINE OF SIGNS" and "THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE

15 Berkeley's Doctrine of Signs

16 Dynamical Implications of Berkeley's Doctrine of Heterogeneity: A Note on the Language Model of Nature

17 Berkeley's Argument from Design

IX: MIND

18 Is Berkeley's a Cartesian Mind?

19 Hylas' Parity Argument

20 Lending a Hand to Philonous: The Berkeley, Plato, Aristotle Connection

A Bibliography of George Berkeley 1963-1979

Indexes

Name Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W

Y

Subject Index

I

U

W.

Notes:

"Some of the papers delivered at the Berkeley Commemorative Conference held at Newport, Rhode Island, from September 27 to 30, 1979"--P. xi.

Includes indexes.

"A bibliography of George Berkeley, 1963-1979": p. 313-329.

ISBN:

0-8166-1066-5

OCLC:

233574133