The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley
OUP eBook (Publisher)
Published on 18. January 2022
704 pages
978-0-19-087343-1 (ISBN)
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The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley is a compendious examination of a vast array of topics in the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, the famous idealist and most illustrious Irish philosopher. Berkeley is best known for his denial of the existence of material substance and his insistence that the only things that exist in the universe are minds (including God) and their ideas; however, Berkeley was a polymath who contributed to a variety of different disciplines, not well distinguished from philosophy in the eighteenth century, including the theory and psychology of vision, the nature and functioning of language, the debate over infinitesimals in mathematics, political philosophy, economics, chemistry (including his favoured panacea, tar-water), and theology.
This volume includes contributions from thirty-four expert commentators on Berkeley's philosophy, some of whom provide a state-of-the-art account of his philosophical achievements, and some of whom place his philosophy in historical context by comparing and contrasting it with the views of his contemporaries (including Mandeville, Collier, and Edwards), as well as with philosophers who preceded him (such as Descartes, Locke, Malebranche, and Leibniz) and others who succeeded him (such as Hume, Reid, Kant, and Shepherd).
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Samuel C. Rickless (Ph.D. UCLA, 1996) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California San Diego, and affiliate professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. He has authored three books (one on Plato, one on Berkeley, and one on Locke), co-edited two collections of articles (on the ethics of war and the ethics and law of omissions), and published over sixty articles and book chapters (some co-authored) on topics in ancient Greek philosophy, early modern European philosophy, normative ethics, philosophy of law, and philosophy of language.
Content
1. Introduction, Samuel C. Rickless
2. Berkeley's Intellectual Background, Daniel E. Flage
Metaphysics
3. Berkeley on Abstract Ideas and Abstraction, Martha Brandt Bolton
4. Berkeley on Ideas and Notions, James Hill
5. Berkeley's Arguments for Idealism, Benjamin Hill
6. Berkeley on Objections to Idealism, Georges Dicker
7. Berkeley on Materialism and Immaterialism, Melissa Frankel
8. Berkeley on Minds, Genevieve Migely
9. Berkeley on Qualities, Richard Glauser
10. Berkeley on God, Stephen H. Daniel
11. Berkeley's Theory of Language, Kenneth L. Pearce
Epistemology
12: Berkeley on Common Sense, S. Seth Bordner
13. Berkeley's Natural Philosophy, Margaret Atherton
14. Berkeley on Perception, Keota Fields
15. Berkeley's Theory of Vision, Robert Schwartz
16. Berkeley on Mathematics, Douglas Jesseph
17. Berkeley on Chemistry, Luc Peterschmitt
Value Theory
18. Berkeley on the Economics of Poverty, Marc A. Hight and Geoffrey S. Lea
19: Berkeley on Political Obligation, Nancy Kendrick
20. Berkeley's Theology, Timo Airaksinen
Forebears, Contemporaries, and Successors
21. Berkeley and Irish Philosophy, Stefan Storrie
22: Berkeley and Descartes, Alan Nelson
23. Berkeley and Locke, Patrick J. Connolly
24. Berkeley and Malebranche, Sukjae Lee
25. Berkeley and Newton, Monica Solomon
26. Berkeley and Leibniz, Stephen Puryear
27. Berkeley and Mandeville, Mikko Tolonen
28. Berkeley and Shaftesbury, Laurent Jaffro
29. Berkeley and Collier, Tom Stoneham
30. Berkeley and Edwards, Antonia LoLordo
31. Berkeley and Hume, Jennifer Smalligan Maru?i?
32. Berkeley and Reid, Rebecca Copenhaver
33. Berkeley and Kant, Tim Jankowiak
34. Berkeley and Shepherd, Samuel C. Rickless
