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OverviewStephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. Daniel does not assume that thinkers like Descartes, Malebranche, or Locke define for Berkeley the context in which he develops his own thought. Instead, he indicates how Berkeley draws on a tradition that informed his early training and that challenges much of the early modern thought with which he is often associated. Specifically, this book indicates how Berkeley's distinctive treatment of mind (as the activity whereby objects are differentiated and related to one another) highlights how mind neither precedes the existence of objects nor exists independently of them. This distinctive way of understanding the relation of mind and objects allows Berkeley to appropriate ideas from his contemporaries in ways that transform the issues with which he is engaged. The resulting insights--for example, about how God creates the minds that perceive objects--are only now starting to be fully appreciated. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen H. Daniel (Presidential Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Philosophy, Presidential Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 1 Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.672kg ISBN: 9780192893895ISBN 10: 0192893890 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 23 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: How Berkeley's Works Are Interpreted 1: Berkeley's Stoic Notion of Spiritual Substances 2: The Ramist Context of Berkeley's Philosophy 3: Berkeley, Suárez, and the Esse-Existere Distinction 4: Berkeley on Representation 5: Berkeley and Descartes on Mind 6: Berkeley and Hobbes 7: Berkeley and Arnauld on Ideas 8: Berkeley and Spinoza 9: Berkeley's Christian Neoplatonism and Malebranchean Divine Ideas 10: Berkeley and Malebranche on Human Freedom 11: Berkeley and Locke's Substance-Person Distinction 12: Berkeley's Appropriation of Bayle's Constitutive Skepticism 13: The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition 14: Berkeley on God 15: Berkeley's Pantheistic Discourse 16: Berkeley on God's Knowledge of Pain 17: Berkeley, Browne, and Collins: The Rejection of Divine Analogy 18: Berkeley, Edwards, and Ramist Logic Appendix 1: Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the 'Black List Hypothesis': A Dialogue Appendix 2: How Berkeley Redefines Substance: A Reply to My Critics Bibliography IndexReviewsIn this magisterial study, the product of 25 years of scholarly work, Daniel presents a profound, at times radical, reinterpretation of Berkeley's central metaphysical and epistemological doctrines ... This fresh interpretative framework facilitates an appreciation of the consistency of Berkeley's doctrines, early and late ... and provides a renewed understanding of Berkeley's relations to his philosophical contemporaries. * M. Latzer, CHOICE * The text is commendable for its attempt to shed light on Berkeley's engagement with thinkers and traditions that tend to fall outside the canon of early modern philosophy (such as Stoicism, Ramism, and noncanonical thinkers like Jonathan Edwards, Anthony Collins, and Peter Browne) and its attempt to place Berkeley's lesser-known works, such as De Motu and Siris, on a par with his best-known texts. * Peter West, Durham University, Journal of the History of Philosophy * In this magisterial study, the product of 25 years of scholarly work, Daniel presents a profound, at times radical, reinterpretation of Berkeley's central metaphysical and epistemological doctrines ... This fresh interpretative framework facilitates an appreciation of the consistency of Berkeley's doctrines, early and late ... and provides a renewed understanding of Berkeley's relations to his philosophical contemporaries. * M. Latzer, CHOICE * Author InformationStephen H. Daniel is Presidential Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He has written five books, edited three others (two of which are on Berkeley), and published more than sixty articles on 17th- and 18th-century philosophy and on current continental theory. He has received numerous teaching awards, given presentations throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, and from 2006 to 2016 was president of the International Berkeley Society. He is also an avid kayaker and author of Texas Whitewater. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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