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Colmán of Cloyne : a study
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ISBN: 9781851827930 1851827935 Year: 2004 Publisher: Dublin: Four Courts Press,

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Berkeley
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ISBN: 0333116569 Year: 1974 Publisher: London

Essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley
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ISBN: 9027724059 9401086281 9400947984 Year: 1987 Volume: vol 29 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston Tokyo Reidel

L'œuvre de Berkeley
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ISBN: 2711608816 9782711608812 Year: 1985 Volume: vol *10 Publisher: Paris: Vrin,


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Berkeley
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ISBN: 0631130977 9780631130970 Year: 1982 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

Berkeley: an introduction
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ISBN: 0631155090 9780631155096 Year: 1987 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,


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Berkeley
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ISBN: 0192875477 0192875469 9780192875471 9780192875464 Year: 1982 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

Berkeley's metaphysics : structural, interpretive and critical essays
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ISBN: 027101427X Year: 1995 Publisher: University Park (Pa.) : Pennsylvania state university press,

A metaphysics for the mob : the philosophy of George Berkeley
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ISBN: 0195313933 9780195313932 0199871922 9786611163839 128116383X 0198042833 1435619951 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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George Berkeley notoriously claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense. Roberts argues that understanding the basic connection between Berkeley's philosophy and common sense requires that we develop a better understanding of the four principle components of Berkeley's positive metaphysics: The nature of being, the divine language thesis, the active/passive distinction, and the nature of spirits. Roberts begins by focusing on Berkeley's view of the nature of being. He elucidates Berkeley's view on Locke and the Cartesians and by examining Berkeley's views about related concepts such as unity and simplicity. From there he moves on to Berkeley's philosophy of language arguing that scrutiny of the famous "Introduction" to the Principles of Human Knowledge reveals that Berkeley identified the ideational theory of meaning and understanding as the root cause of some of the worst of man's intellectual errors, not "abstract ideas." Abstract ideas are, rather, the most debilitating symptom of this underlying ailment. In place of the ideational theory, Berkeley defends a rudimentary "use theory" of meaning. This understanding of Berkeley's approach to semantics is then applied to the divine language thesis and is shown to have important consequences for Berkeley's pragmatic approach to the ontology of natural objects and for his approach to our knowledge of, and relation to other minds, including God's. Turning next to Berkeley's much aligned account of spirits, the author defends the coherence of Berkeley's view of spirits by way of providing an interpretation of the active/passive distinction as marking a normative distinction and by focusing on the role that divine language plays in letting Berkeley identify the soul with the will. With these four principles of Berkeley's philosophy in hand, he then returns to the topic of common sense and offers a defense of Berkeley's philosophy


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Berkeley: a portrait
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ISBN: 9781443818551 Year: 2010 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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