ISBN:
9789048192434
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (XIX, 204p, digital)
Serie:
International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 201
Serie:
SpringerLink
Serie:
Bücher
Paralleltitel:
Buchausg. u.d.T. George Berkeley: religion and science in the age of enlightenment
Schlagwort(e):
Philosophy (General)
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Science History
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Philosophy, modern
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Science Philosophy
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Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
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Science History
;
Philosophy, modern
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Philosophy
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Science Philosophy
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Berkeley, George 1685-1753
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Berkeley, George 1685-1753
Kurzfassung:
George Berkeley was considered 'the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century'. This hyperbolic statement refers both to Berkeley's life and thought, in fact, he always considered himself a pioneer called to think and do new things. He was an empiricist well versed in the sciences, an amateur of the mechanical arts, as well as a metaphysician, he was the author of many completely different discoveries, as well as a very active Christian, a zealous bishop and the apostle of the Bermuda project. The essays collected in this volume, written by some leading scholars, aim to reconstruct the complexity of Berkeley's figure, without selecting 'major' works, nor searching for 'coherence' at any cost. They will focus on different aspects of Berkeley's thought, showing their intersections, they will explore the important contributions he gave to various scientific disciplines, as well as to the eighteenth-century philosophical and theological debate. They will highlight the wide influence that his presently most neglected or puzzling books had at the time, they will refuse any anachronistical trial of Berkeley's thought, judged from a contemporary point of view.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
George Berkeley:Religion and Science in the Ageof Enlightenment; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Part I Interpretations of Berkeley's Philosophy; Chapter 1: How Berkeley's Works Are Interpreted; Chapter 2: Berkeley's Metaphysical Instrumentalism1; Chapter 3: Causation, Fictionalism and Non-Cognitivism: Berkeley and Hume; Part IINeglected Works and Aspects ofBerkeley's Thought; Chapter 4: Berkeley and His Contemporaries: The Question of Mathematical Formalism; Chapter 5: Locke, Berkeley and Hume as Philosophers of Money*; Chapter 6: Berkeley and Chemistry in the Siris
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Chapter 7: Berkeley and Newton on Gravity in SirisChapter 8: "Scire per causas" Versus "scire per signa": George Berkeley and Scientific Explanation in Siris; Part IIITowards a Wider Historical Perspective; Chapter 9: Berkeley, Theology and Bible Scholarship; Chapter 10: The Distrustful Philosopher: Berkeley Between the Devils and the Deep Blue Sea of Faith; Chapter 11: Berkeley, Spinoza, and Radical Enlightenment; Chapter 12: Was Berkeley a Spinozist? A Historiographical Answer (1718-1751); Chapter 13: The Animal According to Berkeley; Index;
Anmerkung:
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DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-9243-4
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