"Berkeley "was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive
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In contemporary philosophy the works of George Berkeley are
considered models of argumentative discourse; his paradoxes have a
further value to teachers because, like Zeno's, they challenge a
beginning student to find the submerged fallacy. And as a final,
triumphant perversion of Berkeley's intent, his central
contribution is still commonly viewed as an argument for skepticism
- the very position he tried to refute. This limited approach to
Berkeley has obscured his accomplishments in other areas of thought
- his account of language, his theories of meaning and reference,
his philosophy of science. These subjects and others are taken up
in a collection of twenty essays, most of them given at a
conference in Newport, Rhode Island, commemorating the 250th
anniversary of Berkeley's American sojourn of 1728-31. The essays
constitute a broad survey of problems tackled by Berkeley and still
of interest to philosophers, as well as topics of historical
interest less familiar to modern readers. Its comprehensive scope
will make this book appropriate for text use.
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