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John R. Roberts. A Metaphysics for the Mob: The Philosophy of George Berkeley (review)Berkeley Studies 18 36-39. 2007.
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902Berkeley's Christian neoplatonism, archetypes, and divine ideasJournal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2): 239-258. 2001.Berkeley's doctrine of archetypes explains how God perceives and can have the same ideas as finite minds. His appeal of Christian neo-Platonism opens up a way to understand how the relation of mind, ideas, and their union is modeled on the Cappadocian church fathers' account of the persons of the trinity. This way of understanding Berkeley indicates why he, in contrast to Descartes or Locke, thinks that mind (spiritual substance) and ideas (the object of mind) cannot exist or be thought of apart…Read more
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298Les limites de la philosophie naturelle de BerkeleyIn Sébastien Charles (ed.), Science et épistémologie selon Berkeley, Presses De L’université Laval. pp. 163-70. 2004.(Original French text followed by English version.) For Berkeley, mathematical and scientific issues and concepts are always conditioned by epistemological, metaphysical, and theological considerations. For Berkeley to think of any thing--whether it be a geometrical figure or a visible or tangible object--is to think of it in terms of how its limits make it intelligible. Especially in De Motu, he highlights the ways in which limit concepts (e.g., cause) mark the boundaries of science, metaphysic…Read more
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1Lawrence J. Hatab, Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (review)Philosophy in Review 11 (5): 324-326. 1991.Review of Lawrence Hatab's *Myth and Philosophy*
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95"Spinoza on Knowing, Being and Freedom," ed. J. G. van der Bend (review)Modern Schoolman 53 (3): 329-330. 1976.
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438Berkeley's Rejection of Divine AnalogyScience Et Esprit 63 (2): 149-161. 2011.Berkeley argues that claims about divine predication (e.g., God is wise or exists) should be understood literally rather than analogically, because like all spirits (i.e., causes), God is intelligible only in terms of the extent of his effects. By focusing on the harmony and order of nature, Berkeley thus unites his view of God with his doctrines of mind, force, grace, and power, and avoids challenges to religious claims that are raised by appeals to analogy. The essay concludes by showing how a…Read more
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30Paramodern Strategies of Philosophical HistoriographyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 1 (1): 41-63. 1993.
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28A philosophical theory of literary continuity and changeSouthern Journal of Philosophy 18 (3): 275-280. 1980.
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35Montréal Conference SummariesBerkeley Studies 23 54-57. 2012.In June of 2012 scholars from Europe and North America met in Montreal to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of George Berkeley's *Passive Obedience*. In this article Stephen Daniel summarizes the English presentations, and Sébastien Charles summarizes the French presentations, on how Berkeley invokes naturalistic themes in developing a moral theory while still allowing a role for God.
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442Edwards as PhilosopherIn Stephen J. Stein (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards, Cambridge University Press. pp. 162-80. 2007.
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8Incoming Editor’s NoteBerkeley Studies 17 3. 2006.A quick introduction to my becoming the editor of *Berkeley Studies* in 2006.
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34The Semiotic Ontology of Jonathan EdwardsModern Schoolman 71 (4): 285-304. 1994.Jonathan Edwards' marginalization in modern philosophy stems from his refusal to endorse the predicational logic and substantialist ontology of the rationalist-empiricist debate. Instead, he appeals to a communicative, semiotic logic of propositions grounded in Stoic thought and thematized by Peter Ramus and his Puritan followers. That alternative logic displays an "ontology of supposition" that guarantees God's existence, justifies typological, magical, and even astrological inferences, undermi…Read more
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66Civility and sociability: Hobbes on man and citizenJournal of the History of Philosophy 18 (2): 209-215. 1980.
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22Berkeley: Philosophical Writings, ed. Desmond M. Clarke (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (7). 2009.
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553Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the “Black List Hypothesis”: A DialogueSouthern Journal of Philosophy 51 (1): 24-41. 2013.Clues about what Berkeley was planning to say about mind in his now-lost second volume of the Principles seem to abound in his Notebooks. However, commentators have been reluctant to use his unpublished entries to explicate his remarks about spiritual substances in the Principles and Dialogues for three reasons. First, it has proven difficult to reconcile the seemingly Humean bundle theory of the self in the Notebooks with Berkeley's published characterization of spirits as “active beings or pri…Read more
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Ramist Dialectic in Leibniz's Early ThoughtIn Mark Kulstad, Mogens Laerke & David Snyder (eds.), The philosophy of the young Leibniz, Steiner. pp. 59-66. 2009.
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14Myth and modern philosophyTemple University Press. 1990.A study of the historiographic significance and use of mythic or fabular thinking in Bacon, Descartes, Mandeville, Vico, Herder, and others.
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24The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine SemioticsIndiana University Press. 1994.An examination of Edwards’ ontology and his ideas on creation, God, sin, freedom, virtue, and beauty.
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19Seventeenth-Century Scholastic Treatments of TimeJournal of the History of Ideas 42 (4): 587-606. 1981.
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