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Berkeley's Idealism - A Critical Examination (Hardcover)
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Berkeley's Idealism - A Critical Examination (Hardcover)
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In George Berkeley's two most important works, the Principles of
Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Bewtween Hylas and Philonous,
he argued that there is no such thing as matter: only minds and
ideas exist, and physical things are nothing but collections of
ideas. In defense of this idealism, he advanced a battery of
challenging arguments purporting to show that the very notion of
matter is self-contradictory or meaningless, and that even if it
were possible for matter to exist, we could not know that it does;
and he then put forward an alternative world-view that purported to
refute both skepticism and atheism.
Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, Georges Dicker
here examines both the destructive and the constructive sides of
Berkeley's thought, against the background of the mainstream views
that he rejected. Dicker's accessible and text-based analysis of
Berkeley's arguments shows that the Priniciples and the Dialogues
dovetail and complement each other in a seamless way, rather than
being self-contained. Dicker's book avoids the incompleteness that
results from studying just one of his two main works; instead, he
treats the whole as a visionary response to the issues of modern
philosophy- such as primary and secondary qualities, external-world
skepticism, the substance-property relation, the causal roles of
human agents and of God. In addition to relating Berkeley's work to
his contemporaries, Dicker discusses work by today's top Berkeley
scholars, and uses notions and distinctions forged by recent and
contemporary analytic philosophers of perception. Berkeley's
Idealism both advances Berkeley scholarship and serves as a useful
guide for teachers and students.
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