Berkeley's thought
By: George S. Pappas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
Description: "In this account of Bishop George Berkeley's epistemological and metaphysical theories, George S. Pappas seeks to determine precisely what doctrines the philosopher held and what arguments he put forward to support them. Specifically, Pappas overturns accepted opinions about Berkeley's famous attack on the Lockean doctrine of abstract ideas.

Berkeley's criticism of these ideas had been thought relevant only to his views on language and to his nominalism; Pappas persuasively argues that Berkeley's ideas about abstraction are crucial to nearly all the fundamental principles that he defends."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index.