George Berkeley
1685-1753
Irish Philosopher
George Berkeley is best remembered for his attempt to reconcile religion and science through his empiricist philosophy that separated a phenomenon's ...
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George Berkeley
1685-1753
Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne known for his philosophico-scientific treatises. Berkeley argued that science, no less than religion, relies on metaphysical speculatio...
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Berkeley, George(1685–1753)
George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher of English ancestry, and Anglican bishop of Cloyne, was born at Kilkenny, Ireland. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1700 ...
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Berkeley, George [addendum]
George Berkeley believed that there are only minds and ideas. The existence of minds (or spirits or souls), Berkeley contended, consists in perceiving whereas the existence...
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Anglican bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) developed a unique type of idealism based on an empirically oriented attack on abstract philosophizing combined with a defense of immaterialism.Although bor...
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Philosopher George Berkeley was born at Dysert Castle, near Thomastown, Ireland, on March 12, 1685. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1704 and was elected a fellow ...
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Born in the same year as the great composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Frideric Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti, Berkeley was one of the seminal figures in Western philosophy, his doctrines exerting...
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Bishop Berkeley is undoubtedly more important to the history of philosophy than to American literary and cultural history. Nevertheless, his interest in America and his influence on American thought a...
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George Berkeley is best known for his denial of matter and for a series of arguments which, according to David Hume, "admit of no answer and produce no conviction." James Boswell offered a similar ass...
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According to John Stuart Mill, George Berkeley made "three first-rate philosophical discoveries, each sufficient to have constituted a revolution in psychology, and which by their combination have det...
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In the following essay, which was written in 1936, Wild provides a survey of Berkeley's career and an overview of his philosophical development.
Berkeley completed the Siris, his last and de...
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In the following essay, Allaire surveys the ontology of Berkeley's philosophy of idealism, and why it fails.
In these remarks, I try to show that Berkeley's idealism was inevitable an...
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In the following essay, Muehlmann thoroughly analyzes Berkeley's central metaphysical doctrines and some of the motivations behind them and concludes that many who have read his principles have...
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In the following essay, Cummins examines Berkeley's belief about perception, claiming that he limits himself because he refuses to separate the physical world from the perceptions of the senses...
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In the following excerpt, Johnston discusses the experiences and influences that resulted in the formation of Berkeley's philosophical theories.
I. Philosophical and Religious Environment
It...
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In the following essay, Luce examines the use of the term “in the mind” in Berkeley's works, arguing that Berkeley refers to perceivable existence rather than mental existence.
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In the following essay, Gallois considers the role imaging and perception play in the “master argument” of Berkeley's philosophy.
In the first dialogue of the Three Dialogues b...
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In the following essay, Pitcher examines Berkeley's ideas regarding the existence of unperceived objects.
Although Berkeley believes that he must deny that we ever perceive so-called physica...
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In the following essay, Foster examines two apparently contradictory views in Berkeley's philosophy: that all reality exists solely in the mind and that a physical world does indeed exist and f...
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In the following essay, Tipton considers Berkeley's belief about the human imagination and its role in his philosophy of immaterialism.
In Principles, 22-3, and in a parallel passage in the ...
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In the following essay, Bolton provides support and opposition for Berkeley's rejection of abstraction as well as his form of idealism.
1. According to Berkeley's famous theory of per...
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In the first essay that follows, Urmson gives an overview of Berkeley's conflict with John Locke in the area of the definition of matter. In the second, he examines Berkeley's contention...
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George Berkeley writes extensively on man's perception of the outside world in an attempt to explain the nature of existence and God's role in the workings of the Universe.
Berkeley was born at Dyser...
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