Berkeley: Philosophical Writings
Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Author: Desmond M. Clarke
- Date Published: March 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521707626
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George Berkeley (1685–1753) was a university teacher, a missionary, and later a Church of Ireland bishop. The over-riding objective of his long philosophical career was to counteract objections to religious belief that resulted from new philosophies associated with the Scientific Revolution. Accordingly, he argued against scepticism and atheism in the Principles and the Three Dialogues; he rejected theories of force in the Essay on Motion; he offered a new theory of meaning for religious language in Alciphron; and he modified his earlier immaterialism in Siris by speculating about the body's influence on the soul. His radical empiricism and scientific instrumentalism, which rejected the claims of the sciences to provide a realistic interpretation of phenomena, are still influential today. This edition provides texts from the full range of Berkeley's contributions to philosophy, together with an introduction by Desmond M. Clarke that sets them in their historical and philosophical contexts.
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- Date Published: March 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521707626
- length: 386 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chronology
Further reading
Note on the texts
A New Theory of Vision
A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Part I)
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
An Essay on Motion
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher [excerpts]
Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water [excerpts]
Glossary
Index.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- British Empiricism
- British Empiricists
- Central Topics in Early Modern Philosophy
- History of Early Modern Philosophy
- History of Thought
- Modern Philosophy
- Selected Topics: Irish Philosophy
- Seminar: Berkeley and Hume
- The Ghost in the Machine
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