Berkeley / Margaret Atherton.

By: Atherton, Margaret [author.]
Language: English Series: Blackwell great minds ; 16Publisher: Hoboken : Wiley, 2018Edition: First EditionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781119532057 (Adobe PDF); 9781119532071 (ePub)Subject(s): Berkeley, George, 1685-1753 | Berkeley, George, 1685-1753Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: BerkeleyDDC classification: 192 LOC classification: B1348Online resources: Full text is available at Wiley Online Library Click here to view
Contents:
Intro; Table of Contents; preface; acknowledgments; abbreviations; chapter 1: berkeley's life and work; 1685-1713; 1713-1734; 1734-1753; chapter 2: an essay towards a new theory of vision; Distance Cannot Be Seen of Itself and Immediately; We Don't See Distance by Anything Necessarily Connected with It; Distance Is Only Suggested to Our Thoughts by Certain Visible Ideas and Sensations Attending Vision; What We Learn from the Man Born Blind; Heterogeneity, Visible Ideas, and Tangible Meanings; Size Perception and the "Picture" Picture; Situation Perception and the "Picture" Picture "The Main Part and Pillar"Vision Is a Language; chapter 3: principles of human knowledge; Berkeley's Outline of His Project (PHK Introd. 1-5); Abstract Ideas (PHK Introd. 6-17); The Abuse of Language (PHK Introd. 18-25); chapter 4: principles of human knowledge; PHK 1-7: The Statement of Idealism; PHK 8-25: The Refutation of Materialism; PHK 25-33: Minds and Ideas: Berkeley's Positive Argument; chapter 5: principles of human knowledge; First Objection (PHK 34-40); Second Objection (PHK 41); Third Objection (PHK 42-44); Fourth Objection (PHK 45-48); Fifth Objection (PHK 49) Sixth Objection (PHK 50)Seventh Objection (PHK 51-53); Eighth Objection (PHK 54-57); Tenth Objection (PHK 58-59); Eleventh Objection (PHK 60-66); Twelfth Objection (PHK 67-81); Objections from Religion (PHK 82-84); Conclusions; chapter 6: principles of human knowledge; General Consequences for Knowledge of Ideas (PHK 86-100); The Consequences for Knowledge of Natural Philosophy (PHK 101-134); Newton on Absolute Space and Motion (PHK 110-117); Consequences for Our Knowledge of Mathematics (PHK 118-134); Consequences for Knowledge of Spirits (PHK 135-156) Consequences for Knowledge of God (PHK 145-156)chapter 7: three dialogues between hylas and philonous; The Preface; First Dialogue, 171-194; Initial Scene Setting; Sensible Things; What Is Immediately Perceived; "To Exist Is One Thing, and to Be Perceived Is Another"; Heat; Further Sensible Qualities; Colors; The Very Same Arguments; Summing Up; chapter 8: three dialogues between hylas and philonous; The Act-Object Distinction; Modes, Qualities, and Substratum; The Unconceived Tree (The Master Argument); "Without the Mind" and "At a Distance"; Two Kinds of Objects The Relationship between the Principles and Three Dialogueschapter 9: three dialogues between hylas and philonous; A Psychophysical Cause of Ideas; The Real Beauties of Nature; Ideas Caused by God; Matter (and God) as the Cause of Our Ideas; What Has Been Achieved in the Second Dialogue; chapter 10: three dialogues between hylas and philonous; What Philonous Believes; An Annihilation Objection; Knowledge of Immaterial Substance; The Gardener and His Cherry Tree; Real Things and Imaginary Things; Things and Ideas; Spirits as Causes; Divine Causation and Human Agency
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Includes index.

Intro; Table of Contents; preface; acknowledgments; abbreviations; chapter 1: berkeley's life and work; 1685-1713; 1713-1734; 1734-1753; chapter 2: an essay towards a new theory of vision; Distance Cannot Be Seen of Itself and Immediately; We Don't See Distance by Anything Necessarily Connected with It; Distance Is Only Suggested to Our Thoughts by Certain Visible Ideas and Sensations Attending Vision; What We Learn from the Man Born Blind; Heterogeneity, Visible Ideas, and Tangible Meanings; Size Perception and the "Picture" Picture; Situation Perception and the "Picture" Picture "The Main Part and Pillar"Vision Is a Language; chapter 3: principles of human knowledge; Berkeley's Outline of His Project (PHK Introd. 1-5); Abstract Ideas (PHK Introd. 6-17); The Abuse of Language (PHK Introd. 18-25); chapter 4: principles of human knowledge; PHK 1-7: The Statement of Idealism; PHK 8-25: The Refutation of Materialism; PHK 25-33: Minds and Ideas: Berkeley's Positive Argument; chapter 5: principles of human knowledge; First Objection (PHK 34-40); Second Objection (PHK 41); Third Objection (PHK 42-44); Fourth Objection (PHK 45-48); Fifth Objection (PHK 49) Sixth Objection (PHK 50)Seventh Objection (PHK 51-53); Eighth Objection (PHK 54-57); Tenth Objection (PHK 58-59); Eleventh Objection (PHK 60-66); Twelfth Objection (PHK 67-81); Objections from Religion (PHK 82-84); Conclusions; chapter 6: principles of human knowledge; General Consequences for Knowledge of Ideas (PHK 86-100); The Consequences for Knowledge of Natural Philosophy (PHK 101-134); Newton on Absolute Space and Motion (PHK 110-117); Consequences for Our Knowledge of Mathematics (PHK 118-134); Consequences for Knowledge of Spirits (PHK 135-156) Consequences for Knowledge of God (PHK 145-156)chapter 7: three dialogues between hylas and philonous; The Preface; First Dialogue, 171-194; Initial Scene Setting; Sensible Things; What Is Immediately Perceived; "To Exist Is One Thing, and to Be Perceived Is Another"; Heat; Further Sensible Qualities; Colors; The Very Same Arguments; Summing Up; chapter 8: three dialogues between hylas and philonous; The Act-Object Distinction; Modes, Qualities, and Substratum; The Unconceived Tree (The Master Argument); "Without the Mind" and "At a Distance"; Two Kinds of Objects The Relationship between the Principles and Three Dialogueschapter 9: three dialogues between hylas and philonous; A Psychophysical Cause of Ideas; The Real Beauties of Nature; Ideas Caused by God; Matter (and God) as the Cause of Our Ideas; What Has Been Achieved in the Second Dialogue; chapter 10: three dialogues between hylas and philonous; What Philonous Believes; An Annihilation Objection; Knowledge of Immaterial Substance; The Gardener and His Cherry Tree; Real Things and Imaginary Things; Things and Ideas; Spirits as Causes; Divine Causation and Human Agency

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