Berkeley's Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays - Softcover

Muehlmann, Robert G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271026561 ISBN 13: 9780271026565

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Contents Part I: Idealism Berkeley's Idealism: Yet Another Visit/Edwin B. Allaire On Allaire's ""Another Visit""/Alan Hausman and David Hausman A New Approach to Berkeley's Ideal Reality/ Alan Hausman and David Hausman On the Hausmans's ""A New Approach""/Fred Wilson The Substance of Berkeley's Philosophy/Robert G. Muehlmann Berkeley's Manifest Qualities Thesis/Phillip D. Cummins Berkeleian Idealism and Impossible Performances/George Pappas Part II: Volition, Action, and Causation Berkeley's Problem of Sighted Agency/Robert G. Muehlmann Berkeley and Action/Robert Imlay On Imlay's ""Berkeley and Action""/Catherine Wilson Berkeley's Case Against Realism about Dynamics/Lisa Downing Part III: Vision and Perceptual Objects Seeing Distance from a Berkeleian Perspective/Robert Schwartz Berkeley Without God/Margaret Atherton Godless Immaterialism: On Atherton's Berkeley/Charles J. McCracken

About this title

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).

From the Back Cover

This collection of fourteen interpretive 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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271026561
• ISBN 13: 9780271026565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280