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Berkeley: Philosophical Writings (Hardcover)
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Berkeley: Philosophical Writings (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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George Berkeley (1685-1753) was a university teacher, a missionary,
and later a Church of Ireland bishop. The over-riding objective of
his long philosophical career was to counteract objections to
religious belief that resulted from new philosophies associated
with the Scientific Revolution. Accordingly, he argued against
scepticism and atheism in the Principles and the Three Dialogues;
he rejected theories of force in the Essay on Motion; he offered a
new theory of meaning for religious language in Alciphron; and he
modified his earlier immaterialism in Siris by speculating about
the body's influence on the soul. His radical empiricism and
scientific instrumentalism, which rejected the claims of the
sciences to provide a realistic interpretation of phenomena, are
still influential today. This edition provides texts from the full
range of Berkeley's contributions to philosophy, together with an
introduction by Desmond M. Clarke that sets them in their
historical and philosophical contexts.
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