Berkeley's Metaphysics | Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays
Robert Muehlmann
ISBN 10: 0271026561 ISBN 13: 9780271026565
Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995
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Berkeley's Metaphysics | Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays | Robert Muehlmann | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 1995 | Pennsylvania State University Press | EAN 9780271026565 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Seller Inventory # 133454049
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This collection of fourteen interpretative essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753) focuses specifically on Berkeley’s theory of the nature and variety of existing things. The collection is notable for containing the first four winners of the Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize (only the first of which has been previously published).
The seven essays in the first part, entitled “Idealism,” attempt to illuminate Berkeley’s notorious thesis that to be is to be perceived, that the esse of sensible things (trees, mountains, rivers, etc.) is percipi. Most of the essays in this first part are either direct or indirect responses to an influential interpretation of Berkeley’s idealism advanced thirty years ago by Edwin B. Allaire. The second part, “Volition, Action, and Causation,” contains four essays focusing on Berkeley’s volitionism, on his thesis that only the activities of minds (volitions) are causally efficacious. “Vision and the Perceptual Objects,” the third part of the volume, deals with Berkeley’s theory of vision and his doctrine that all of the objects of perception depend on God’s will for their existence.
About the Author: Robert G. Muehlmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Berkeley's Ontology (1992).
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Title: Berkeley's Metaphysics | Structural, ...
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Taschenbuch
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