Berkeley: Critical and Interpretive EssaysColin Murray Turbayne U of Minnesota Press - 340页 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. |
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... example , in the normal case , if someone sees the attached fenders , tires , doors , windows , and trim on the driver's side of a car , then he also sees the car . And this is unquestionably so even though the observer does not see ...
... example is to work . Moreover , the gen- eral must see some sizable portion of the total division . Seeing one soldier in an organized parade will not suffice , just as seeing one part of the car will not typically suffice for the ...
... example ) ; S is duly attentive to his sur- roundings ; and there is nothing wrong with the conditions under which S makes his observations ( the lighting is normal , for instance ) . Imagine further that S owns a pig , that he ...
... example . It would amount to knowl- edge of relationships between specific olfactory , auditory , and visual ideas . And a person such as S would not know that there was a pig before him if he lacked this background evidence . But this ...
... example used earlier about the pig may serve here as an illustration ; it is just one . example among many of physical object propositions that are cer- tain . Furthermore , this relatively weak account of certainty shows that ( b ) ...
目录
IDEAS AND PERCEPTION | 33 |
METHOD AND MATHEMATICS | 67 |
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES | 93 |
SPACE AND TIME | 125 |
AETHER AND CORPUSCLES | 157 |
IDEALISM AND UNIVERSALS | 195 |
THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNS and THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE | 229 |
MIND | 271 |
A Bibliography of George Berkeley 19631979 | 313 |
Indexes | 331 |