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Book SynopsisDavid Berman is Professor Emeritus Fellow in the Philosophy Department, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is author of
A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell (2013),
Berkeley and Irish Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2005),
Berkeley: The Great Philosophers (2008),
Images of Berkeley (1986)
and editor of
George Berkeley (Routledge Revivals): Eighteenth-Century Responses: Volumes 1&2 (2020)
Trade ReviewShort, clear and very readable ... The Berkeleyan scholarship is impeccable, but provocative. * Theology *
David Berman creates and develops a dialectical confrontation between Berkeley and himself as Neo-Berkeley. His philosophical target is Berkeley's dualism and its important implications to modern epistemology. His account is truly innovative: no one has approached Berkeley's grand theory from a similar constructive perspective. * Timo Airaksinen, Professor Emeritus, University of Helsinki, Finland *
David Berman provides us with a penetrating and highly original assessment of Berkeley’s philosophical legacy. * James Hill, Charles University, Prague *
In his brief but challenging book, David Berman offers a novel account of the basis of Berkeleanism, resting it on his dualism. Even more challenging, the second half of Berman's book lays out what can be saved if we accept Berkeley's dualism and reject his idealism. A must read! * Margaret Atherton, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA *
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Part 1: Berkeley’s Philosophy Section 1: Overview and Summary Section 2: Berkeley’s life and works Section 3: The structure of Berkeley’s
Principles Section 4: Berkeley’s dualism and dualistic experience Section 5: Dualism or monism? Section 6: The phenomenalistic interpretation Section 7: Overview Section 8: Hume’s Phenomenalism Section 9: the cde Section 10:
Alciphron, the TVV and DHP 1734 Section 11: James Hill on the notional Section 12: The 2 or 3 Advantages of the Section 27 doctrine Section 13: What underpins the notional Section 14: The big historical picture Section 15: Berkeley on objects: the revision Section 16: Berkeley’s
Siris Part 2: Neo-Berkeley Section 1: Berkeley in 1752-3 Section 2: The DMT: Why it hasn’t been accepted Section 3: Berkeley’s Immaterialism and Monotheistic God Section 4: Neo-B on God and other dualistic minds Section 5: God and theistic intimacy and dualistic intimacy Section 6: Dualistic Intimacy: Montaigne and La Boete Section 7: The Tactual Visual Typology
Notes Bibliography Index
