George Berkeley and early modern philosophy /

Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. Daniel does not assume that thinkers like Descartes, Malebranche or Locke define for Berkeley the context in whic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel, Stephen H. (Stephen Hartley), 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • How Berkeley's works are interpreted
  • Berkeley's stoic notion of spiritual substances
  • The Ramist context of Berkeley's philosophy
  • Berkeley, Suárez, and the esse-existere distinction
  • Berkeley on representation
  • Berkeley and Descartes on mind
  • Berkeley and Hobbes
  • Berkeley and Arnauld on ideas
  • Berkeley and Spinoza
  • Berkeley's Christian Neoplatonism and Malebranchean divine ideas
  • Berkeley and Malebranche on human freedom
  • Berkeley and Locke's substance-person distinction
  • Berkeley's appropriation of Bayle's constitutive skepticism
  • The harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley juxtaposition
  • Berkeley on God
  • Berkeley's pantheistic discourse
  • Berkeley on God's knowledge of pain
  • Berkeley, Browne, and Collins: the rejection of divine analogy
  • Berkeley, Edwards, and Ramist logic
  • Appendix 1: Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the 'Black List Hypothesis': A Dialogue
  • Appendix 2: How Berkeley Redefines Substance: A Reply to My Critics.