Berkeley : an interpretation / Kenneth P. Winkler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winkler, Kenneth, 1950-

Series:

Clarendon Paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.

Berkeley, George.

Philosophy, British--18th century.

Philosophy, British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

George Berkeley (1685-1753) is famous for his bold metaphysical doctrine that matter does not exist, and that the sensations we take to be caused by an independent external world are instead caused directly by God. Kenneth P. Winkler offers an interpretation and assessment of the arguments Berkeley gives in defence of this central doctrine, and places it in the context of Berkeley's thought as a whole.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

1. WORDS AND IDEAS

1. Two kinds of signs

2. Ideas as objects

3. Ideas as images

4. Representation and signification

2. ABSTRACT IDEAS

1. The argument

2. Objections and replies

3. Abstract ideas as images

4. Abstract ideas as objects

Appendix: Does Berkeley blunder in reading Locke?

3. SIMPLE IDEAS

1. The search for a simple idea

2. Simplicity and abstraction

3. Consequences

4. NECESSITY

1. Simple and complex ideas

2. Demonstration, necessity, and certainty

3. An anachronistic hypothesis?

4. Berkeley's response

5. Conclusion

5. CAUSE AND EFFECT

1. Berkeley on the causal relation

2. Necessary connection

3. The account defended

6. IMMATERIALISM

1. The argument of Principles 4

2. Immediate perception

3. A commentary on the First Dialogue

4. The argument of Principles 3

5. Against matter

6. The master argument

7. Materialism and abstraction

8. Berkeley's phenomenalism

7. UNPERCEIVED OBJECTS

1. Two interpretations

2. The denial of blind ageney

3. Unperceived objects

4. Two objections

5. Archetypes

6. Archetypes in Siris

7. Mabbott's objections to divine ideas

8. Conclusion

8. CORPUSCULARIANISM

1. The corpuscularian background

2. Primary and secondary qualities

3. Immaterial corpuscles

9. SPIRIT

1. The parity objection

2. An alleged incoherence

3. The mind and its acts

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-98110-9

9786611981105

0-19-152007-1

OCLC:

252537574