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Vulgar Talk and Learned Reasoning in Berkeley’s Moral and Religious Thought
Berkeley “argues with the learned and speaks with the vulgar.” I use his double maxim to interpret his ethics. My approach is new. The Sermons and Guar...
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Ayer and Berkeley on the Meaning of Ethical and Religious Language
In the 6th chapter of Language, Truth and Logic (LTL), Ayer sketched a simple ethical theory that was later called emotivism. Emotivism faced serious...
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Common Sense and the Natural Light in George Berkeley’s Philosophy
It is argued that George Berkeley’s term ‘common sense’ does not indicate shared conviction, but the shared capacity of reasonable judgement, and is...
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The word of a reluctant convert
Recent political events suggest that there is more political, religious, and moral division than many had previously realized. Since people on all...
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Idealismus und Materialismus
Im 9. Kapitel werden die zwei bekanntesten idealistischen Positionen behandelt. Gottfried W. Leibniz entwickelte einen objektiven Idealismus, der die...
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Berkeley’s Theological Challenge of Absolute Space in the Principles of Human Knowledge
In this article, I intend to examine the link between the refutation of absolute space and Berkeley’s apologetical aim. Section 117 of the Principles...
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Berkeleian Instrumentalism: From Substance to Space
The author argues that much of the debate over the status of instrumentalism in Berkeley’s philosophy can be clarified if one sees him as Pragmatic...
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Ellis’s Philosophy and Bacon Scholarship
This chapter offers an account of Ellis’s philosophical development in the period between the 1830s and 1850s. The focus is on the background and...
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Berkeley’s Two Notions of Extension
Berkeley’s theses on vision have been better accepted than those about the non-existence of matter. However, in spite of the success of his...
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George Berkeley and Peter Browne
Berkeley’s thoughts on the philosophy of language can be divided into two streams: a critical, negative stream detailing what language is not or does...
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Collingwood and Archaeological Theory
Leach asks, what would Collingwood have thought of archaeological theory, a sub-discipline of archaeology that has developed since the 1960s? He...
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The British Historiography of Philosophy in the Nineteenth-Century
During the eighteenth century, British works on the history of philosophy were very limited and absolutely incomparable not only to the great German...
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Presuppositions and the Logic of Question and Answer
Vasso Kindi examines, first, whether Collingwood’s logic of question and answer, which was to replace the symbolic logic of the logical positivists,...
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George Berkeley’s proof for the existence of God
Most philosophers have given up George Berkeley’s proof for the existence of God as a lost cause, for in it, Berkeley seems to conclude more than he...
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The Paradox of Double-Bind Theory in Controversies: The Case of “Silence” in the Philosophical Questions that Abounded During the Eighteenth Century in Europe
The many controversies which take place in France during the eighteenth century and are usually viewed as the flag bearers of the revolution will be...
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The Exchange Between Mandeville and Berkeley
George Berkeley directed an ad hominem attack on Bernard Mandeville in his Alchiphron. Although rarely analysed in secondary literature, this and the...
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Berkeley on the “Twofold state of things”
Berkeley writes in his Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous that he “acknowledge[s] a twofold state of things, the one ectypal or natural, the...
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Unconscious Thought in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
At the beginning of modern philosophy, Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant laid the groundwork for concepts of unconscious thought in psychoanalytic...
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Mandeville and the Markets: An Economic Assessment
This article analyses the debate that occurred in England in the second decade of the eighteenth century regarding the possibility of a shortage of...