Essays on Berkeley
Subtitle: a tercentennial celebration
By: edited by John Foster and Howard Robinson.
Contributors: Foster, John, 1941 May 5-; Robinson, Howard.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
Description: Marking the tercentenary of Berkeley's birth, this collection of previously unpublished essays covers such Berkeleian topics as: imagination, experience, and possibility; the argument against material substance; the physical world; idealism; science; the self; action and inaction; beauty; and the general good. Among the contributors are: Christopher Peacocke, Ernest Sosa, Margaret Wilson, C.C.W. Taylor, and J.O. Urmson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagination, experience, and possibility / Christopher Peacocke; title: Berkeley's central argument against material substance / A.D. Smith; title: Berkeley's master stroke / Ernest Sosa; title: Berkeley on the physical world / John Foster; title: Idealism, Kant and Berkeley / R.C.S. Walker; title: Berkeley and the essences of the corpuscularians / Margaret D. Wilson; title: Berkeley's philosophy of science / W.H. Newton-Smith; title: The general form of the argument for Berkeleian idealism / Howard Robinson; title: The self in Berkeley's philosophy / A.C. Lloyd; title: Action and inaction in Berkeley / C.C.W. Taylor; title: Berkeley on beauty / J.O. Urmson; title: God-appointed Berkeley and the general good / Stephen R.L. Clark.