George Berkeley and Early Modern Philosophy

by Daniel, Stephen H.

• ISBN13: 9780192893895
• ISBN10: 0192893890
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-05-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Stephen H. Daniel, Texas A&M University

Stephen H. Daniel is Presidential Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He has written five books, edited three others (two of which are on Berkeley), and published more than sixty articles on 17th- and 18th-century philosophy and on current continental theory. He has received numerous teaching awards, given presentations throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, and from 2006 to 2016 was president of the International Berkeley Society. He is also an avid kayaker and author of Texas Whitewater.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: How Berkeley's Works Are Interpreted
1. Berkeley's Stoic Notion of Spiritual Substances
2. The Ramist Context of Berkeley's Philosophy
3. Berkeley, Su?rez, and the Esse-Existere Distinction
4. Berkeley on Representation
5. Berkeley and Descartes on Mind
6. Berkeley and Hobbes
7. Berkeley and Arnauld on Ideas
8. Berkeley and Spinoza
9. Berkeley's Christian Neoplatonism and Malebranchean Divine Ideas
10. Berkeley and Malebranche on Human Freedom
11. Berkeley and Locke's Substance-Person Distinction
12. Berkeley's Appropriation of Bayle's Constitutive Skepticism
13. The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition
14. Berkeley on God
15. Berkeley's Pantheistic Discourse
16. Berkeley on God's Knowledge of Pain
17. Berkeley, Browne, and Collins: The Rejection of Divine Analogy
18. Berkeley, Edwards, and Ramist Logic
Appendix 1: Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the 'Black List Hypothesis': A Dialogue
Appendix 2: How Berkeley Redefines Substance: A Reply to My Critics
Bibliography
Index