Berkeley's three dialogues : new essays / edited by Stefan Storrie.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Storrie, Stefan, editor.

Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)

Conference Name:

Berkeley and the Three dialogues (2014 : Dublin)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berkeley, George, 1685-1753. Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.

Berkeley, George.

Idealism.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 217 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Sensible qualities and secondary qualities in the First Dialogue

Some issues in Berkeley's account of sense perception

Berkeley on the object of perception

Berkeley's semiotic idealism

Berkeley's argument for the existence of God in the Three Dialogues

Berkeley on continuous creation: occasionalism contained

The active self and perception in Berkeley's Three Dialogues

Berkeley on God's knowledge of pain

A puzzle in the Three Dialogues and its Platonic resolution

The scope of Berkeley's idealism in the 1734 edition of the Three Dialogues

Matter, God, and nonsense: Berkeley's polemic against the freethinkers in the Three Dialogues

Hey, what's the big idea? Berkeley and Hume on extension, local conjunction, and the immateriality of the soul.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 1, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-253807-1

0-19-181683-3

0-19-107230-3