Research Catalog

Title

Berkeley's Three dialogues : new essays / edited by Stefan Storrie.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Storrie, Stefan
• Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
• Berkeley and the Three dialogues (2014 : Dublin)

Description

x, 217 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This is the first volume of essays devoted to Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, a classic of early modern philosophy. Leading experts examine all the central issues in Berkeley's work. The Three Dialogues is a dramatization of Berkeley's philosophy in which the two protagonists Hylas and Philonous debate the full range of Berkeleyan themes: the rejection of material substance, the nature of perception and reality, the limits of human knowledge, and his approach to the perceived threats of skepticism, atheism and immorality. When Berkeley presented his first statement of his immaterialist philosophy in the Principles of Human Knowledge three years earlier he was met with incredulity - how could a sane person deny the existence of matter? Berkeley felt that a new approach was needed in order to bring people over to his novel point of view. This new effort was the Three Dialogues. In the preface to the Three Dialogues Berkeley stated that its aim was to "treat more clearly and fully of certain principles laid down" in the Principles. Esteem for Berkeley's work has increased significantly in recent decades, and this volume will be the starting-point for future research.

Alternative Title

Berkeley's 3 dialogues

Subject

• Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
• Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (Berkeley, George)

Note

• "Many of the papers in this volume were presented at the 'Berkeley and the Three dialogues' conference at Trinity College Dublin in 2014"--Page vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Sensible qualities and secondary qualities in the First Dialogue -- Some issues in Berkeley's account of sense perception -- Berkeley on the object of perception -- Berkeley's semiotic idealism -- Berkeley's argument for the existence of God in the Three Dialogues -- Berkeley on continuous creation: occasionalism contained -- The active self and perception in Berkeley's Three Dialogues -- Berkeley on God's knowledge of pain -- A puzzle in the Three Dialogues and its Platonic resolution -- The scope of Berkeley's idealism in the 1734 edition of the Three Dialogues -- Matter, God, and nonsense: Berkeley's polemic against the freethinkers in the Three Dialogues -- Hey, what's the big idea? Berkeley and Hume on extension, local conjunction, and the immateriality of the soul.

Call Number

JFE 18-5714

ISBN

• 0198755686
• 9780198755685

LCCN

2017954803

OCLC

991099925

Title

Berkeley's Three dialogues : new essays / edited by Stefan Storrie.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.

Added Author

Storrie, Stefan, editor.

Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)

Berkeley and the Three dialogues (2014 : Dublin)

Research Call Number

JFE 18-5714