Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained

Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in the intricate argumentation. The unique design helps students learn how to read and engage with one of modern philosophy's most important and exciting classics.

Tyron Goldschmidt is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He is the editor of The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (2014), and the author of various articles in metaphysics, philosophy of religion and medieval philosophy.

Scott Stapleford is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the author of Kant's Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason (2008), and various articles in epistemology and early modern philosophy.