Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Mind, matter and sense qualia -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 2 Causing and signifying -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 3 Actions and persons -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 4 Locke on the knowledge of things themselves -- I -- II -- A. Look to experience, not to authority -- B. The sources of knowledge and the misuse of words -- C. Relations of ideas to qualities of objects -- D. Real, fantastical, true, etc., ideas -- E. Substances -- F. Mixed modes -- G. The limitations of knowledge -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- 5 The notions of Berkeley's philosophy -- I -- II -- (1) Notions held by Berkeley, or by particular persons in the dialogues -- (2) Notions and common sense or those commonly accepted -- (3) Notions linked with other terms -- (4) Kinds of notions -- (5) Examples of specific notions -- (6) Acquisition or source of notions -- (7) Relation to Words and Language -- (8) Confused, mistaken, absurd, misleading notions -- (9) Notions of spirits, God and relations -- III -- IV -- V -- 6 Hume's "appearances" and his vocabulary of awareness -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- 7 Hume's ontology -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- CONCLUSION The realism of appearances -- I -- II -- Can appearances meet the independence criterion? -- (a) Complete independence -- (b) Partial independence -- Perceiver dependence and realism too -- Do appearances have an ontological status? -- III -- Bibliography -- Index.