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Berkeley : Critical and Interpretive Essays.
Title:
Berkeley : Critical and Interpretive Essays.
Author:
Turbayne, Colin.
ISBN:
9780816664757
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (354 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- I: COMMON SENSE AND RELATIVISM -- 1 Berkeley, Perception, and Common Sense -- 2 Berkeley's Commitment to Relativism -- II: IDEAS AND PERCEPTION -- 3 On Taking Ideas Seriously -- 4 The Concept of Immediate Perception in Berkeley's Immaterialism -- III: METHOD AND MATHEMATICS -- 5 Microscopes and Philosophical Method in Berkeley -- 6 Berkeley and Tymoczko on Mystery in Mathematics -- IV: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES -- 7 Berkeley on the Limits of Mechanistic Explanation -- 8 Did Berkeley Completely Misunderstand the Basis of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction in Locke? -- V: SPACE AND TIME -- 9 The Spaces of Berkeley's World -- 10 On Being "Embrangled" by Time -- VI: AETHER AND CORPUSCLES -- 11 The "Philosopher by Fire" in Berkeley's Alciphron -- 12 Locke, Berkeley, and Corpuscular Scepticism -- VII: IDEALISM AND UNIVERSALS -- 13 Berkeley's Idealism Revisited -- 14 Berkeley and Others on the Problem of Universals -- VIII: THE "DOCTRINE OF SIGNS" and "THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE" -- 15 Berkeley's Doctrine of Signs -- 16 Dynamical Implications of Berkeley's Doctrine of Heterogeneity: A Note on the Language Model of Nature -- 17 Berkeley's Argument from Design -- IX: MIND -- 18 Is Berkeley's a Cartesian Mind? -- 19 Hylas' Parity Argument -- 20 Lending a Hand to Philonous: The Berkeley, Plato, Aristotle Connection -- A Bibliography of George Berkeley 1963-1979 -- Indexes -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Subject Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
In contemporary philosophy the works of George Berkeley are considered models of argumentative discourse; his paradoxes have a further value to teachers because, like Zeno's, they challenge a beginning student to find the submerged fallacy. And as a fina.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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