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<p><i>Berkeley</i> was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p><p>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 1728â31. The essays constitute a broad survey of problems tackled by Berkeley and still of interest to philosophers, as well as topics of hist

Author

Colin M. Turbayne, editor

Publisher

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816610662

Subjects

Philosophy, Western, Humanities