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Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 29
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A tercentenary conference of March, 1985, drew to Newport, Rhode
Island, nearly all the most distinguished Berkeley scholars now
active. The conference was organized by the International Berkeley
Society, with the support of several institutions and many people
(whose help is acknowl edged below). This volume represents a
selection of the lead papers deliv ered at that conference, most
now revised. The Cartesian marriage of Mind and Body has proved an
uneasy union. Each side has claimed supremacy and usurped the
rights of the other. In anglophone philosophy Body has lately had
it all pretty much its own way, most dramatically in the
Disappearance Theory of Mind, whose varieties vary in appeal and
sophistication, but uniformly shock sensibili ties. Only recently
has Mind reasserted itself, yet the voices of support are already a
swelling chorus. "Welcome," Berkeley would respond, since " ... all
the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth ... have not a
subsis tence without a mind ... " (Principles, sect. 6). In
fairness, Berkeley does playa Disappearance trick of his own - with
Matter now into the hat. But his act is far subtler than any brute
denial of the obvious, and seeks rather to explain than bluntly to
reject. Perhaps we are today better prepared to appreciate his
insights."
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