Browsing by Subject "George Berkeley"
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Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language
(2017)Berkeley’s immaterialism aims to undermine Descartes’s skeptical arguments by denying that the connection between sensory perception and reality is contingent. However, this seems to undermine Berkeley’s (alleged) defense ... -
Berkeley's Analyst: Rigour and Rhetoric
(King's College London, 2018)Consider the following puzzle: in 1732, Berkeley published Alciphron, and with it a sweeping pragmatic vindication of concepts whose terms fail to represent clear ideas. In that pragmatic semantics, he uses mathematical ... -
Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion
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Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy
(2021)Malebranche argues that ideas are representative beings existing in God. He defends this thesis by an inference to the best explanation of human perception. It is well known that Malebranche’s theory of vision in God ... -
Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley's Polemic Against the Freethinkers in the Three Dialogues
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A Pragmatic Bishop: George Berkeley's Theory of Causation in De motu
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2022)In this doctoral thesis, I will argue that in his De motu (1721, 'On motion'), Bishop George Berkeley (c.1684-1753) develops a pragmatist theory of causation regarding mechanical theories outlined previously with Newtonianism. ... -
Ructions over Fluxions
(2022)Following the publication of Berkeley's caustic critique of calculus, The Analyst (1734), numerous figures in the scientific world responded to the text's allegations of rigour violations and a culture of mathematics-laced ...