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Berkeley's metaphysics : structural, interpretive, and critical essays
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Berkeley's metaphysics : structural, interpretive, and critical essays

Author: R G Muehlmann
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : English
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This collection of fourteen interpretive essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753) focuses specifically on Berkeley's theory of the nature and variety of existing things. The collection is notable for containing the first four winners of the Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize (only the first of which has been previously published).
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Named Person: George Berkeley
Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: R G Muehlmann
ISBN: 027101427X 9780271014272
OCLC Number: 30978954
Notes: Most essays delivered at a conference held at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada on March 13-14, 1992.
Description: xiv, 264 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Berkeley's idealism : yet another visit / Edwin B. Allaire -- On Allaire's "Another visit" / Alan Hausman and David Hausman -- A new approach to Berkeley's ideal reality / Alan Hausman and David Hausman -- On the Hausmans' "A new approach" / Fred Wilson -- The substance of Berkeley's philosophy / Robert G. Muehlmann -- Berkeley's manifest qualities thesis / Phillip D. Cummins -- Berkeleian idealism and impossible performances / George Pappas -- Berkeley's problem of sighted agency / Robert G. Muehlmann -- Berkeley and action / Robert Imlay -- On Imlay's "Berkeley and action" / Catherine Wilson -- Berkeley's case against realism about dynamics / Lisa Downing -- Seeing distance from a Berkeleian perspective / Robert Schwartz -- Berkeley without God / Margaret Atherton -- Godless immaterialism : on Atherton's Berkeley / Charles J. McCracken.
Responsibility: edited by Robert G. Muehlmann.

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This collection of fourteen interpretive essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753) focuses specifically on Berkeley's theory of the nature and variety of existing things. The collection is notable for containing the first four winners of the Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize (only the first of which has been previously published).

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