Berkeley An Interpretation

Author : Kenneth P. Winkler
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191520075

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Berkeley: An Interpretation by Kenneth P. Winkler Pdf

David Hume wrote that Berkeley's arguments `admit of no answer but produce no conviction'. This book aims at the kind of understanding of Berkeley's philosophy that comes from seeing how we ourselves might be brought to embrace it. Berkeley held that matter does not exist, and that the sensations we take to be caused by an indifferent and independent world are instead caused directly by God. Nature becomes a text, with no existence apart from the spirits who transmit and receive it. Kenneth P. Winkler presents these conclusions as natural (though by no means inevitable) consequences of Berkeley's reflections on such topics as representation, abstraction, necessary truth, and cause and effect. In the closing chapters Proefssor Winkler offers new interpretations of Berkeley's view on unperceived objects, corpuscularian science, and our knowledge of God and other minds.

Author : Kenneth P. Winkler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0191598682

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Berkeley by Kenneth P. Winkler Pdf

George Berkeley is famous for his metaphysical doctrine that matter does not exist; that the sensations we take to be caused by an independent external world are instead caused by God. Winkler offers an interpretation and assessment of the arguments Berkeley gives in defence of this doctrine, and places it in the context of his thought as a whole.

Author : Kenneth Winkler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1132031603

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Berkeley by Kenneth Winkler Pdf

Author : A. Berkeley Mickelsen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1972-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0802847811

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Interpreting the Bible by A. Berkeley Mickelsen Pdf

Author : Edward A. Lee
Publisher : Lee & Seshia
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Signal processing
ISBN : 9780578077192

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Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems by Edward A. Lee Pdf

Author : Stephen Hartley Daniel
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015073659396

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New Interpretations of Berkeley's Thought by Stephen Hartley Daniel Pdf

Overall, the essays indicate that, for Berkeley, our apprehension of the world as real depends on recognizing how the world expressed by our ideas is not a mere aggregate of disconnected bodies but is rather an integrated unity of the things we experience.

Author : John Russell Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195313932

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A Metaphysics for the Mob by John Russell Roberts Pdf

Berkeley claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense. Roberts argues that understanding the basic connection between Berkeley's philosophy requires that we develop a better understanding of the principle components of his positive metaphyics.

Author : Keota Fields
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739142974

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Berkeley by Keota Fields Pdf

This book offers novel interpretations of several of Berkeley's most distinctive philosophical doctrines, including his theory of vision, heterogeneity thesis, anti-abstractionism, immaterialism, likeness principle, and the divine language thesis. Key to those interpretations is a focus on Berkeley's critical use of the Cartesian doctrine of objective presence, which demands causal explanations for the content of sensory ideas.

Author : George J. Stack
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111725789

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Berkeley's analysis of perception by George J. Stack Pdf

Author : Daniel E. Flage
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745682716

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Berkeley by Daniel E. Flage Pdf

Irish philosopher George Bishop Berkeley was one of the greatest philosophers of the early modern period. Along with David Hume and John Locke he is considered one of the fathers of British Empiricism. Berkeley is a clear, concise, and sympathetic introduction to George Berkeley’s philosophy, and a thorough review of his most important texts. Daniel E. Flage explores his works on vision, metaphysics, morality, and economics in an attempt to develop a philosophically plausible interpretation of Berkeley’s oeuvre as whole. Many scholars blur the rejection of material substance (immaterialism) with the claim that only minds and things dependent upon minds exist (idealism). However Flage shows how, by distinguishing idealism from immaterialism and arguing that Berkeley’s account of what there is (metaphysics) is dependent upon what is known (epistemology), a careful and plausible philosophy emerges. The author sets out the implications of this valuable insight for Berkeley’s moral and economic works, showing how they are a natural outgrowth of his metaphysics, casting new light on the appreciation of these and other lesser-known areas of Berkeley’s thought. Daniel E. Flage’s Berkeley presents the student and general reader with a clear and eminently readable introduction to Berkeley’s works which also challenges standard interpretations of Berkeley’s philosophy.

Author : Damian Ilodigwe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527554696

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Berkeley by Damian Ilodigwe Pdf

Berkeley is popular in the philosophical tradition as the philosopher who denied the existence of matter in favour of spiritual substance. His esse est percipi thesis is understandably seen as a recipe for subjective idealism. While there is a point to this reading of Berkeley, it remains to be seen whether it does justice to the full significance of Berkeley’s opposition to philosophical materialism. In this book, essentially a sympathetic reconstruction of Berkeley’s philosophy, Ilodigwe approaches Berkeley’s Immaterialism from the standpoint of the philosophical issues raised by the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century. He argues that when approached in this manner, Berkeley’s opposition to philosophical materialism not only emerges as an attempt to overcome false abstractions, but it also becomes possible to make sense of his claimed alliance with common sense in his battle against philosophical materialism. While the realist portrait of Berkeley that emerges from this exercise is not free from difficulties, it arguably offers us a fuller conspectus of Berkeley’s philosophy of immaterialism.

Author : Harry M. Bracken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401194730

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The Early Reception of Berkeley’s Immaterialism 1710–1733 by Harry M. Bracken Pdf

By the time of Immanuel Kant, Berkeley had been caIled, among other things, a sceptic, an atheist, a solipsist, and an idealist. In our own day, however, the suggestion has been ad vanced that Berkeley is bett er understood if interpreted as a realist and man of common sense. Regardless of whether in the end one decides to treat hirn as a subjective idealist or as a re alist, I think it has become appropriate to inquire how Berkeley's own contemporaries viewed his philosophy. Heretofore the gen erally accepted account has been that they ignored hirn, roughly from the time he published the Principles 01 Human Knowledge until1733 when Andrew Baxter's criticism appeared. The aim of the present study is to correct that account as weIl as to give some indication not only of the extent, but more important, the role and character of several of the earliest discussions. Second arily, I have tried to give some clues as to the influence this early material may have had in forming the image of the "good" Bish op that emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century. For it is my hope that such clues may prove helpful in freeing us from the more severe strictures of the traditional interpretive dogmas.

Author : Colin Murray Turbayne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0719009235

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Berkeley by Colin Murray Turbayne Pdf

Author : Robert G. Muehlmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271042282

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Berkeley's Metaphysics by Robert G. Muehlmann Pdf

Author : Samuel C. Rickless
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199669424

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Berkeley's Argument for Idealism by Samuel C. Rickless Pdf

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.