Berkeleys Argument For Idealism

Author : Samuel C. Rickless
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199669422
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's Argument for Idealism written by Samuel C. Rickless and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0195381467
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's Idealism written by Georges Dicker and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : George Berkeley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth L. Pearce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192507559
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World written by Kenneth L. Pearce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Ideas are understood as pure phenomenal 'feels' which are momentarily had by a single perceiver, then vanish. Surprisingly, Berkeley tries to sell this idealistic philosophical system as a defense of common-sense and an aid to science. However, both common-sense and Newtonian science take the perceived world to be highly structured in a way that Berkeley's system does not appear to allow. Kenneth L. Pearce argues that Berkeley's solution to this problem lies in his innovative philosophy of language. The solution works at two levels. At the first level, it is by means of our conventions for the use of physical object talk that we impose structure on the world. At a deeper level, the orderliness of the world is explained by the fact that, according to Berkeley, the world itself is a discourse 'spoken' by God - the world is literally an object of linguistic interpretation. The structure that our physical object talk - in common-sense and in Newtonian physics - aims to capture is the grammatical structure of this divine discourse. This approach yields surprising consequences for some of the most discussed issues in Berkeley's metaphysics. Most notably, it is argued that, in Berkeley's view, physical objects are neither ideas nor collections of ideas. Rather, physical objects, like forces, are mere quasi-entities brought into being by our linguistic practices.

Author : Kenneth P. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825186
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley written by Kenneth P. Winkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley is one of the greatest and most influential modern philosophers. In defending the immaterialism for which he is most famous, he redirected modern thinking about the nature of objectivity and the mind's capacity to come to terms with it. Along the way, he made striking and influential proposals concerning the psychology of the senses, the workings of language, the aims of science, and the scope of mathematics. In this Companion volume a team of distinguished authors not only examines Berkeley's achievements but also his neglected contributions to moral and political philosophy, his writings on economics and development, and his defense of religious commitment and religious life. The volume places Berkeley's achievements in the context of the many social and intellectual traditions - philosophical, scientific, ethical, and religious - to which he fashioned a distinctive response.

Author : Colin Murray Turbayne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009235
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkeley written by Colin Murray Turbayne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190873434
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley is a compendious examination of a vast array of topics in the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, the famous idealist and most illustrious Irish philosopher. Berkeley is best known for his denial of the existence of material substance and his insistence that the only things that exist in the universe are minds (including God) and their ideas; however, Berkeley was a polymath who contributed to a variety of different disciplines, not well distinguished from philosophy in the eighteenth century, including the theory and psychology of vision, the nature and functioning of language, the debate over infinitesimals in mathematics, political philosophy, economics, chemistry (including his favoured panacea, tar-water), and theology. This volume includes contributions from thirty-four expert commentators on Berkeley's philosophy, some of whom provide a state-of-the-art account of his philosophical achievements, and some of whom place his philosophy in historical context by comparing and contrasting it with the views of his contemporaries (including Mandeville, Collier, and Edwards), as well as with philosophers who preceded him (such as Descartes, Locke, Malebranche, and Leibniz) and others who succeeded him (such as Hume, Reid, Kant, and Shepherd).

Author : Tyron Goldschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198746970
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idealism written by Tyron Goldschmidt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idealism is the view that reality is fundamentally mental. Idealism has been influential historically, but it has been neglected in contemporary metaphysical debate. This volume of 17 essays by leading philosophers rectifies the situation.

Author : George Berkeley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Berkeley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625585063
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Principles of Human Knowledge written by George Berkeley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through reflection or introspection, is it possible to attempt to know if a sound, shape, movement, or color can exist unperceived by a mind? This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by Berkeley's contemporary John Locke about the nature of human perception. Both Locke and Berkeley agreed that there was an outside world, and it was this world which caused the ideas one has within one's mind. Berkeley sought to prove that the outside world was also composed solely of ideas.