Berkeley's Principles of human knowledge
Subtitle: a reader's guide
By: Alasdair Richmond.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781847060280; 9781847060297
Subjects: Berkeley, George, -- 1685-1753; Knowledge, Theory of; Idealism
Description: "[Book title] is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and eighteenth-century thought. As a free-standing systematic exposition of Berkeley's ideas, it is a hugely important and influential text, central to any undergraduate's study of the history of philosophy. This introduction to the text offers guidance on: philosophical and historical context; key themes; reading the text; reception and influence; further reading."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Note on the text of the principles; title: Context; title: Biography; title: Berkeley's philosophical background; title: Overview of themes; title: Teading the text; title: The principles : introduction; title: The principles : part one; title: The objects and subject of knowledge : ideas and spirit; title: Unperceived existence : a nicer strain of abstraction; title: Problems for materialism; title: A Cartesian dream argument; title: The master argument; title: From the inertness of ideas to the existence of God; title: Philosophical objections to immaterialism and replies; title: Religious objections to immaterialism and replies; title: Further advantages of immaterialism; title: Great provinces of speculative science; title: The attack on absolute space; title: Mathematics; title: Other minds; title: The divine language of nature; title: Reception and influence; title: Guide to further reading.