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Berkeley's World: An Examination of the Three Dialogues

Autor Tom Stoneham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2002
Tom Stoneham offers a clear and detailed study of Berkeley's metaphysics and epistemology, as presented in his classic work Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, originally published in 1713 and still widely studied today. Stoneham writes for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and academics in philosophy who are not specialists in the early modern period, and shows that Berkeley is an important and systematic philosopher whose work is still of relevance to philosophers today. Discussion of secondary literature is kept to a minimum (there are no footnotes!) and the interpretation defended shows his arguments as having greater strength and his views as having more plausibility than is usually recognized. Part 1 is a general overview. In Part 2, Berkeley is shown to be a direct realist about perception of the physical world who denies that the objects of either perception or of scientific theory are material. In Part 3, Berkeley's positive views on substance, causation, action, free will, universals, concepts, identity, and persistence are also considered. While Berkeley's immaterialism is criticized, its weaknesses are shown to lie in the details rather than in the big picture, which is no more implausible or unattractive than the materialist alternative.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198752370
ISBN-10: 0198752377
Pagini: 332
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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...a fine book, with a lot of very good commentary and interpretation, along with a great deal of excellent philosophy. There is much to be gained by the study of this book, by both the scholar interested in Berkeley and the non-specialist philosopher.
... contains interesting and original discussions ... While Stoneham eschews scholarly disputes, and dispenses with footnotes, his book will certainly interest Berkeley scholars, while also providing much useful, if challenging, discussion for non-specialists seeking to engage with central issues in Berkeley's philosophy.
Berkeley's World is a careful, systematic discussion of the arguments and claims presented in the philosophical fiction of the Three Dialogues.
Stoneham has given the reader a thorough presentation and analysis of the Dialogues. Anyone would benefit from a careful reading of Berkeley's World, including Berkeley scholars and historians of philosophy.
There is much to praise in this finely written book, most important being Stoneham's attempt to correct the facile but persistent mistaken interpretation of immaterialism and the nature of ideas.