BERKELEY by Stephen Priest

CONTENTS

• BERKELEY IN HISTORY
• MATTER
• ABSTRACT IDEAS
• THE SELF
• GOD AND OTHER MINDS
• SPACE AND TIME
• NUMBERS
• LANGUAGE
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• Price: £ 7 (or the equivalent in your currency)
• First Published in Stephen Priest The British Empiricists, Penguin Books, London and New York 1990.
• 24 pages 12,477 words

George Berkeley (1685-1753), the great Irish Anglican philosopher, argues for the radical thesis that nothing can exist unless consciousness exists. Although seemingly repugnant to common sense and in conflict with today's reigning scientific materialism, Berkeley's philosophy emphasises the existence of something we find difficult to explain: the reality of one's own subjective mind. Stephen Priest's clear introduction to Berkeley's thought shows how his fascinating arguments are harder to refute than might appear.

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