George Berkeley and early modern philosophy / Stephen H. Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, Stephen H. (Stephen Hartley), 1950- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.

Berkeley, George.

Philosophy, Modern--17th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy, Modern--18th century.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, focusing on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. For Berkeley, mind neither precedes the existence of objects nor exists independently of them. Daniel shows how Berkeley transformed the issues with which he engaged.

Contents:

Cover

George Berkeley and Early Modern Philosophy

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: How Berkeley's Works Are Interpreted

Historiographic Presuppositions

A Preview of my Chapters

1: Berkeley's Stoic Notion of Spiritual Substances

The Stoic Context

Mind as the Active Principle of Ideas

2: The Ramist Context of Berkeley's Philosophy

Dialectic Discovery

Dialectic Disposition

Ramism at Berkeley's Trinity College Dublin

3: Berkeley, Suárez, and the Esse-Existere Distinction

Suárez and Being

Berkeley on Spirit, Mind, Soul

4: Berkeley on Representation

Resemblance and Representation

Refuting the Myth of the Given

Particles and the Will to Differentiation

5: Berkeley and Descartes on Mind

Mind as Principle of Meaning, Not Abstract Substance

The Linguistic Character of Mind

Berkeley and Descartes on How Perception Is Active

Minds, Animals, and Immortality

6: Berkeley and Hobbes

Berkeley's Interest in the Hobbes-Descartes Exchange

Hobbes and Berkeley on Conscience

7: Berkeley and Arnauld on Ideas

Arnauld's "Thoughts"

"Spirit and Idea" in Thought: Berkeley's Similarity to Arnauld

8: Berkeley and Spinoza

Bergson and Peirce on the Spinoza-Berkeley Connection

Will as the Defining Feature of Extended Substance

9: Berkeley's Christian Neoplatonism and Malebranchean Divine Ideas

The Trinitarian Account of Mind

Divine Ideas and Malebranche

10: Berkeley and Malebranche on Human Freedom

The Efficacy of the Will, the Constitution of the Self

The Intrinsic Link between Volitions and their Effects

11: Berkeley and Locke's Substance-Person Distinction

Berkeley's Merging of Substance and Person

Locke's Separation of Person and Substance.

12: Berkeley's Appropriation of Bayle's Constitutive Skepticism

Bayle's Positive Contribution

13: The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition

The Similarity of Stances

Phenomenalistic Stances

The Metaphysical Character of Infinite Divisibility

14: Berkeley on God

The Continuity and Passivity Arguments for God's Existence

The Demonstrative Deduction of the Existence of God

The Inherent Infinity of Divine Perception

15: Berkeley's Pantheistic Discourse

God as Space

The Subsistence of Substance

16: Berkeley on God's Knowledge of Pain

Divine Perception

God's Comprehension of Pain

17: Berkeley, Browne, and Collins: The Rejection of Divine Analogy

King and Browne

Berkeley's Resolution

Addendum on the Supposed "New Letter by Berkeley to Browne"

18: Berkeley, Edwards, and Ramist Logic

The Substance of Idealism

The Ramist Displacement of Idealism

Appendix 1: Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the "Black List Hypothesis": A Dialogue

Appendix 2: How Berkeley Redefines Substance: A Reply to My Critics

The Bundle Theory: John Roberts

The Threat to Freedom: Tom Stoneham

The Challenge to Tradition: Talia Mae Bettcher

Bibliography

Manuscripts

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Daniel, Stephen H. (Stephen Hartley), 1950- George Berkeley and early modern philosophy.

ISBN:

0-19-264654-0

0-19-264653-2

0-19-191526-2

OCLC:

1243552768