Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley

Richard Brook is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University, USA. Bertil Belfrage became Assistant Professor (universitetslektor) in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University, Sweden, in 1970 andResearch Fellow in the History of Ideas and Sciences in 1993.

• List of ContributorsAbbreviationsIntroduction, Bertil Belfrage & Richard BrookPart one Berkeley’s Life and ImportanceChapter oneBerkeley’s Biography, Tom JonesChapter twoBerkeley’s Bermuda Project in Context, Nancy KendrickChapter threeBerkeley’s Correspondence, Marc HightChapter fourBerkeley and Twentieth Century Realist-Anti-realist Controversies, Howard Michael RobinsonPart two Berkeley’s Major WorksChapter fiveAtomism in Berkeley’s Theory of Vision, Bertil BelfrageChapter sixBerkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge, Samuel RicklessChapter seven Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas, Philonous and the Sceptic, Tom StonehamChapter eightThe Mystery of Goodness in Berkeley’s Passive Obedience, Bertil BelfrageChapter nineBerkeley’s De Motu, Richard BrookChapter tenAlciphron or the Minute Philosopher: Berkeley’s Redefinition of Free-Thinking, Adam GrzelinskiChapter elevenBerkeley’s Querist: ‘Hints... what is to be done in this Critical State of our Affairs’ or proposals for a Hyperborean Eutopia? Patrick KellyChapter twelve Berkeley’s Siris. An Interpretation, Timo AiraksinenPart threeBerkeley in ContextChapter thirteenBerkeley and Descartes, Charles McCrackenChapter fourteenBerkeley and Leibniz, Laurence CarlinChapter fifteenBerkeley and Locke on Perception, Georges DickerChapter sixteenBerkeley and Malebranche, Charles McCrackenChapter seventeenReid’s Critique of Berkeley, James van CleveChapter eighteenThe Copy Principle in Berkeley and Hume, Keota FieldsChapter nineteenThe Reception of Berkeley in Eighteen-century France, Sébastien CharlesPart fourmain themes in Berkeley’s philosophyChapter twenty Berkeley and Common Sense, Seth BordnerChapter twenty-oneImmediate and Mediate Perception, Richard GlauserChapter twenty-twoBerkeley and Phenomenalism, Jeff McDonoughChapter twenty-threeThe Nature of Mind in Berkeley’s Philosophy, Talia BettcherChapter twenty-fourBerkeley on the Philosophy of Language, John RobertsChapter twenty-fiveBerkeley’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Wolfgang BreidertChapter twenty-sixBerkeley’s Philosophy of Religion, Kenneth PearceBibliographyIndex

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