[PDF] The Rhetoric Of Berkeleys Philosophy eBook

Author : Peter Walmsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521374132

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The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy offers rhetorical and literary analyses of four of his major philosophical texts.

Author : Stephen Hartley Daniel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802093485

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George Berkeley (1685-1753) is perhaps most famous for his assertion that our knowledge of the world is nothing other than the experience of our ideas. Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy examines this aspect of Berkeley's thought, arguing that such a viewpoint assumes that physical objects and minds are better understood when discussed in the contexts of science, morality, and religion. This collection confronts the question: how can we know anything about the world if all we know are our ideas? Comprised of eleven previously unpublished essays by leading scholars in the field, Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy demonstrates how things in the world are intrinsically related to the sequence of experiences that constitute minds. This collection also discusses how the harmony of experience reveals strategies for recognizing the inherently active character of reality. Ultimately, this volume represents a major contribution to the study of Berkeley's philosophy by critiquing the tendency to generalize his thought as a version of theologically modified solipsism. In this way, it is a unique and invaluable addition to Berkeley scholarship.

Author : G. A. Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317842510

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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 : Kenneth P. Winkler
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1989-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191520071

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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 : Manuel Fasko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3111197751

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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 : Talia Mae Bettcher
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826489915

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The author provides a cogent and reliable survey of the various concepts and paradoxes of George Berkeley's thought.

Author : Colin Murray Turbayne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816610665

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Berkeley was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. 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 final, triumphant perversion of Berkeley's intent, his central contribution is still commonly viewed as an argument for skepticism - the very position he tried to refute. This limited approach to Berkeley has obscured his accomplishments in other areas of thought - his account of language, his theories of meaning and reference, his philosophy of science. These subjects and others are taken up in a collection of twenty essays, most of them given at a conference in Newport, Rhode Island, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Berkeley's American sojourn of 1728–31. The essays constitute a broad survey of problems tackled by Berkeley and still of interest to philosophers, as well as topics of historical interest less familiar to modern readers. Its comprehensive scope will make this book appropriate for text use.