TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winkler,Kenneth P.
TI  - Berkeley: an Interpretation
T2  - Clarendon Paperbacks Series
SN  - 9780191520075
AV  - B1348 
U1  - 192 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Berkeley, George, -- 1685-1753
KW  - Philosophy, British -- 18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- 1. WORDS AND IDEAS -- 1. Two kinds of signs -- 2. Ideas as objects -- 3. Ideas as images -- 4. Representation and signification -- 2. ABSTRACT IDEAS -- 1. The argument -- 2. Objections and replies -- 3. Abstract ideas as images -- 4. Abstract ideas as objects -- Appendix: Does Berkeley blunder in reading Locke? -- 3. SIMPLE IDEAS -- 1. The search for a simple idea -- 2. Simplicity and abstraction -- 3. Consequences -- 4. NECESSITY -- 1. Simple and complex ideas -- 2. Demonstration, necessity, and certainty -- 3. An anachronistic hypothesis? -- 4. Berkeley's response -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. CAUSE AND EFFECT -- 1. Berkeley on the causal relation -- 2. Necessary connection -- 3. The account defended -- 6. IMMATERIALISM -- 1. The argument of Principles 4 -- 2. Immediate perception -- 3. A commentary on the First Dialogue -- 4. The argument of Principles 3 -- 5. Against matter -- 6. The master argument -- 7. Materialism and abstraction -- 8. Berkeley's phenomenalism -- 7. UNPERCEIVED OBJECTS -- 1. Two interpretations -- 2. The denial of blind ageney -- 3. Unperceived objects -- 4. Two objections -- 5. Archetypes -- 6. Archetypes in Siris -- 7. Mabbott's objections to divine ideas -- 8. Conclusion -- 8. CORPUSCULARIANISM -- 1. The corpuscularian background -- 2. Primary and secondary qualities -- 3. Immaterial corpuscles -- 9. SPIRIT -- 1. The parity objection -- 2. An alleged incoherence -- 3. The mind and its acts -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - George Berkeley (1685-1753) is famous for his bold metaphysical doctrine that matter does not exist, and that the sensations we take to be caused by an independent external world are instead caused directly by God. Kenneth P. Winkler offers an interpretation and assessment of the arguments Berkeley gives in defence of this central doctrine, and places it in the context of Berkeley's thought as a whole
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