Berkeley's Idealism
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538146-7 (ISBN)
Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, Georges Dicker here examines both the destructive and the constructive sides of Berkeley's thought, against the background of the mainstream views that he rejected. Dicker's accessible and text-based analysis of Berkeley's arguments shows that the Principles and the Dialogues dovetail and complement each other in a seamless way, rather than being self-contained. Dicker's book avoids the incompleteness that results from studying just one of his two main works; instead, he treats the whole as a visionary response to the issues of modern philosophy- such as primary and secondary qualities, external-world skepticism, the substance-property relation, the causal roles of human agents and of God. In addition to relating Berkeley's work to his contemporaries, Dicker discusses work by today's top Berkeley scholars, and uses notions and distinctions forged by recent and contemporary analytic philosophers of perception. Berkeley's Idealism both advances Berkeley scholarship and serves as a useful guide for teachers and students.
Georges Dicker is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Philosophic Exchange at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. He is the author of Dewey's Theory of Knowing, Perceptual Knowledge: An Analytical and Historical Study, Descartes: An Analytical and Historical Introduction, Hume's Epistemology and Metaphysics: An Introduction, Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction, and of numerous journal articles.
Introduction
Part I: Some Themes of Mainstream Modern Philosophy, with Particular Attention to Locke
1. The Theory of Primary and Secondary Qualities
2. The Representational Theory of Perception and the Problem of Perception
3. Locke's Defense of the Senses
Part II: Berkeley's Direct Arguments for Idealism
4. Berkeley's Case for Idealism in Principles I, Sections 1-7
5. Direct Arguments for Idealism in the First Dialogue between Hylas and Philonous
6. The Argument from the Ego-Centric Predicament
Notes
Part III: Berkeley's Indirect Arguments for Idealism
7. The Likeness Principle
8. Berkeley's Attack on the Theory of Primary and Secondary Qualities
9. Substance/Substratum
10. The Epistemological Argument
Part IV: Berkeley's Positive Metaphysics
11. Mind
12. God, nature, agency, and causation in perception
13. Continuity
14. Intersubjectivity
Notes
Bibliography: works cited
Verlagsort | New York |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 550 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-538146-7 / 0195381467 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-538146-7 / 9780195381467 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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