Berkeley S Doctrine Of Signs

Author : Manuel Fasko,Peter West
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 413 pages
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Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783111197753

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This volume focuses on Berkeley's doctrine of signs. The 'doctrine of signs' refers to the use that Berkeley makes of a phenomenon that is central to a great deal of everyday discourse: one whereby certain perceivable entities are made to stand in for (as 'signs' of) something else. Things signified might be other perceivable entities or they might also be unperceivable notions - such as the meanings of words. From his earliest published work, A New Theory of Vision in 1710, to those works written towards the end of life, including Alciphron in 1732, Berkeley is at pains to emphasise the crucial role that sign-usage, particularly (but not only) in language, plays in human life. Berkeley also connects sign-usage to our (human) relationship with God: an issue that was right of the heart of his philosophical project. The contributions in this volume explore the myriad ways that Berkeley built on such insights to better understand a range of philosophical issues - issues of epistemology, language, perception, mental representation, mathematics, science, and theology. The aim of this volume is to establish that the doctrine of signs can be seen as one of the unifying themes of Berkeley's philosophy. What's more, this theme is one which spans his whole philosophical corpus; not just his best-known works like the Principles and the Three Dialogues, but also his works on science, mathematics, and theology.

Author : Manuel Fasko,Peter West
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 311119728X

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Berkeley's Doctrine of Signs by Manuel Fasko,Peter West Pdf

Throughout his philosophical works, George Berkeley (1685-1753) emphasises the role that sign-usage, particularly in language, plays in human life, connecting it to our relationship with God-a central issue in his thought. This volume explores t

Author : Manuel Fasko,Peter West
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783111197586

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Berkeley's Doctrine of Signs by Manuel Fasko,Peter West Pdf

This volume focuses on Berkeley's doctrine of signs. The 'doctrine of signs' refers to the use that Berkeley makes of a phenomenon that is central to a great deal of everyday discourse: one whereby certain perceivable entities are made to stand in for (as 'signs' of) something else. Things signified might be other perceivable entities or they might also be unperceivable notions - such as the meanings of words. From his earliest published work, A New Theory of Vision in 1710, to those works written towards the end of life, including Alciphron in 1732, Berkeley is at pains to emphasise the crucial role that sign-usage, particularly (but not only) in language, plays in human life. Berkeley also connects sign-usage to our (human) relationship with God: an issue that was right of the heart of his philosophical project. The contributions in this volume explore the myriad ways that Berkeley built on such insights to better understand a range of philosophical issues - issues of epistemology, language, perception, mental representation, mathematics, science, and theology. The aim of this volume is to establish that the doctrine of signs can be seen as one of the unifying themes of Berkeley's philosophy. What's more, this theme is one which spans his whole philosophical corpus; not just his best-known works like the Principles and the Three Dialogues, but also his works on science, mathematics, and theology.

Author : Kenneth Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521450330

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The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley by Kenneth Winkler Pdf

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 aim 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.

Author : Daniel E. Flage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429639951

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Berkeley's Doctrine of Notions by Daniel E. Flage Pdf

This book, first published in 1987, offers a reconstruction of Berkeley’s doctrine on notions by examining the implications of his repeated suggestion that there is a close relationship between his doctrine and his semantic theory. The study ties in with some of the most important topics in modern analytic philosophy, and casts important light on modern philosophical concerns as well as on Berkeley’s thought.

Author : Bertil Belfrage,Richard Brook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441128270

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley by Bertil Belfrage,Richard Brook Pdf

Due to his theory of 'immaterialism' and Schopenhauer's regard of him as the 'father of idealism', George Berkeley (1685-1753) is one of the most important thinkers of the Early Modern period. The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley is a comprehensive one volume reference guide to his life, thought and work. In twenty six original essays, a team of leading international scholars of Modern Philosophy cover all of Berkeley's writings including unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, thus providing readers with a complete and accessible source of information to the entire corpus of Berkeley's writings. The book includes extended essays on key themes in Berkeley's thought as well as sections covering Berkeley's life and times, and also his intellectual influence and legacy.

Author : G. A. Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317842514

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The Development of Berkeley's Philosophy by G. A. Johnston Pdf

First published in 1988. This is part of a fifteen volume series reproducing classic studies and including never before published titles. In his book the author throws light on the evolution of Berkeley’s thought and philosophy by a careful study of his works in their chronological sequence and by detailed reference to his relations with his predecessors and contemporaries.

Author : Vincent Michael Colapietro,Thomas M. Olshewsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311014252X

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Peirce's Doctrine of Signs by Vincent Michael Colapietro,Thomas M. Olshewsky Pdf

Author : Richard J. Brook
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401019941

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Berkeley’s Philosophy of Science by Richard J. Brook Pdf

Philonous: You see, Hylas, the water of yonder fountain, how it is forced upwards, in a round column, to a certain height, at which it breaks and falls back into the basin from whence it rose, its ascent as well as descent proceeding from the same uniform law or principle of gravitation. Just so, the same principles which at first view, lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common 1 sense. Although major works on Berkeley have considered his Philosophy of 1 George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, ed. Colin Murray Turbayne, (third and final edition; London 1734); (New York: The Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc., Library of Liberal Arts, 1965), p. 211. Berkeley, in general, conveniently numbered sections in his works, and in the text of the essay, we will refer if possible to the title and section number. References to the Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous will be also made in the text and refer to the dialogue number and page in the Turbayne edition cited above.

Author : Silvia Parigi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048192434

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George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment by Silvia Parigi Pdf

George Berkeley was considered "the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century". This hyperbolic statement refers both to Berkeley’s life and thought; in fact, he always considered himself a pioneer called to think and do new things. He was an empiricist well versed in the sciences, an amateur of the mechanical arts, as well as a metaphysician; he was the author of many completely different discoveries, as well as a very active Christian, a zealous bishop and the apostle of the Bermuda project. The essays collected in this volume, written by some leading scholars, aim to reconstruct the complexity of Berkeley’s figure, without selecting "major" works, nor searching for "coherence" at any cost. They will focus on different aspects of Berkeley’s thought, showing their intersections; they will explore the important contributions he gave to various scientific disciplines, as well as to the eighteenth-century philosophical and theological debate. They will highlight the wide influence that his presently most neglected or puzzling books had at the time; they will refuse any anachronistical trial of Berkeley’s thought, judged from a contemporary point of view.

Author : Timo Airaksinen,Bertil Belfrage
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443828161

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Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy by Timo Airaksinen,Bertil Belfrage Pdf

George Berkeley (1685–1753) is, with John Locke and David Hume, one of the three major figures in the British empiricist school of philosophy. He has been the centre of much attention recently and his philosophical profile has gradually changed. In the 20th century he was almost exclusively known for his denial of the existence of matter (as this term was defined in those days), but today it is no longer reasonable to confine an account of Berkeley to the challenging philosophical inventions that he published when he was a young fellow at Trinity College in Dublin. This is a welcome trend. It shows Berkeley as a contributor not only to epistemology, metaphysics and moral and social philosophy, but also to a wide range of subjects including mathematics, philosophy of science, empirical psychology, political economy and monetary policy. The present collection aims at meeting this new trend by presenting a broad and comprehensive picture of Berkeley’s works in their historical context. The contributors are some of the finest international experts in the field. The editors hope that this collection will show George Berkeley as he was: a wide-ranging, widely influential and courageous philosophical innovator. This volume has been published to celebrate the 300th anniversary of George Berkeley’s Principles.

Author : George Berkeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Idealism
ISBN : IND:39000002709967

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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley Pdf

Author : Douglas M. Jesseph
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226398952

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Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics by Douglas M. Jesseph Pdf

In this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M. Jesseph provides a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley's work. Jesseph challenges the prevailing view that Berkeley's mathematical writings are peripheral to his philosophy and argues that mathematics is in fact central to his thought, developing out of his critique of abstraction. Jesseph's argument situates Berkeley's ideas within the larger historical and intellectual context of the Scientific Revolution. Jesseph begins with Berkeley's radical opposition to the received view of mathematics in the philosophy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when mathematics was considered a "science of abstractions." Since this view seriously conflicted with Berkeley's critique of abstract ideas, Jesseph contends that he was forced to come up with a nonabstract philosophy of mathematics. Jesseph examines Berkeley's unique treatments of geometry and arithmetic and his famous critique of the calculus in The Analyst. By putting Berkeley's mathematical writings in the perspective of his larger philosophical project and examining their impact on eighteenth-century British mathematics, Jesseph makes a major contribution to philosophy and to the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Charles S. Peirce
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025337202X

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Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 2 by Charles S. Peirce Pdf

This series contains large sections of previously unpublished material in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a brief historical and biographical introduction, extensive editorial and textual notes, and a full chronological list of all of Peirce's writings, published and unpublished, during the period covered.

Author : Margaret Cameron,Benjamin Hill,Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319269085

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Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language by Margaret Cameron,Benjamin Hill,Robert J. Stainton Pdf

For the first time in English, this anthology offers a comprehensive selection of primary sources in the history of philosophy of language. Beginning with a detailed introduction contextualizing the subject, the editors draw out recurring themes, including the origin of language, the role of nature and convention in fixing form and meaning, language acquisition, ideal languages, varieties of meanings, language as a tool, and the nexus of language and thought, linking them to representative texts. The handbook moves on to offer seminal contributions from philosophers ranging from the pre-Socratics up to John Stuart Mill, preceding each major historical section with its own introductory assessment. With all of the most relevant primary texts on the philosophy of language included, covering well over two millennia, this judicious, and generous, selection of source material will be an indispensable research tool for historians of philosophy, as well as for philosophers of language, in the twenty-first century. A vital tool for researchers and contemporary philosophers, it will be a touchstone for much further research, with coverage of a long and varied tradition that will benefit today’s scholars and enhance their awareness of earlier contributions to the field. ​