Berkeley: An Interpretation

Inbunden, Engelska, 1989

AvKenneth P. Winkler,Massachusetts) Winkler, Kenneth P. (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Wellesley College,Kenneth Winkler

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Berkeley (1685-1753) held that matter does not exist, and that the sensations we assume are caused by an indifferent and independent world are instead caused directly by God. Nature has no existence apart from the spirits who transmit and receive it. In this book, the author 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. The author offers new interpretations of Berkeley's views on unperceived objects, corpuscularian science, and our knowledge of God and other minds.

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Utgivningsdatum1989-04-06
Mått144 x 224 x 24 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198249078

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Part 1 Words and ideas: two kinds of signs; ideas as objects; ideas as images; representation and signification. Part 2 Abstract ideas: the argument; objections and replies; abstract ideas as images; abstract ideas as objects; does Berkeley blunder in reading Locke? Part 3 Simple ideas: the search for a simple idea; simplicity and abstraction; consequences. Part 4 Necessity: simple and complex ideas; demonstration, necessity and certainty; an anachronistic hypothesis?; Berkeley's response. Part 5 Cause and effect: Berkeley on the causal relation; necessary connection; the account defended. Part 6 Immaterialism: the argument of "Principles 4"; immediate perception; a commentary on the first dialogue; the argument of "Principles 3"; against matter; the master argument; materialism and abstraction; Berkeley's phenomenalism. Part 7 Unperceived objects: two interpretations; the denial of blind agency; two objections; archetypes; archetypes in "Siris"; Mabbott's objections to divine ideas. Part 8 Corpuscularianism: the corpuscularian background; primary and secondary qualities; immaterial corpuscles. Part 9 Spirit: the parity objection; an alleged incoherence; the mind and its acts.