The Cambridge companion to Berkeley
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 influe...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2005
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| In: | Year: 2005 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge companions to philosophy
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture Cambridge Collections Online |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Berkeley, George 1685-1753
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Berkeley, George (1685-1753) B Berkeley, George ; 1685-1753 |
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| Summary: | 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 aims 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. The volume places Berkeley's achievements in the context of the many social and intellectual traditions - philosophical, scientific, ethical, and religious - to which he fashioned a distinctive response. Berkeley's life and works / David Berman -- Was Berkeley an empiricist or a rationalist? / Michael Ayers -- Berkeley's notebooks / Robert McKim -- Berkeley's theory of vision and its reception / Margaret Atherton -- Berkeley and the doctrine of signs / Kenneth P. Winkler -- Berkeley's argument for immaterialism / A.C. Grayling -- Berkeley on minds and agency / Phillip D. Cummins -- Berkeley's natural philosophy and philosophy of science / Lisa Downing -- Berkeley's philosophy of mathematics / Douglas M. Jesseph -- Berkeley's moral and political philosophy / Stephen Darwall -- Berkeley's economic writings / Patrick Kelly -- Berkeley on religion / Stephen R. L. Clark -- Appendix: Berkeley's verses on America |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0521456576 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521450330 |