Berkeley: Philosophical Writings

Name: Berkeley: Philosophical Writings
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ISBN: 9780521707626

ISBN-10: 0521707625

ISBN-13: 9780521707626

Edition: 2009

Authors: Desmond M. Clarke

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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…

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List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/22/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 386
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of abbreviations


Introduction


Chronology


Further reading


Note on the texts


An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision


A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge


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