| Berkeley: An Interpretation Contributor(s): Winkler, Kenneth P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198235097 ISBN-13: 9780198235095 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: Aims at the kind of understanding of Berkely's philosophy that comes from seeing how we ourselves might be brought to embrace it. Berkeley held that matter does not exist, and that the sensations we take to be caused by an indifferent and independent world are instead caused directly by God. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 192 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Series: Clarendon Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 8.02" W x 6.84" (1.06 lbs) 332 pages |
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| Publisher Description: George Berkeley (1685-1753) held that matter does not exist, and that the sensations we take to be caused by an indifferent and independent world are instead caused directly by God. Nature has no existence apart from the spirits who transmit and receive it. In this book, Winkler presents these conclusions as natural (though by no means inevitable) consequences of Berkeley's reflections on such topics as representation, abstraction, necessary truth, and cause and effect. He offers new interpretations of Berkeley's views on unperceived objects, corpuscularian science, and our knowledge of God and other minds. |