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Margaret Atherton

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Brandeis University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1970
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
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    Locke and the issue over innateness
    In Vere Chappell (ed.), Locke, Oxford University Press. pp. 48--59. 1998.
    Nativism in Cognitive Science
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    Berkeley's revolution in vision
    Cornell University Press. 1990.
    Introduction In 1709 George Berkeley published his first substantial work, An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. As a contribution to the theory of ...
    Berkeley: Sensory Perception
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    A Metaphysics for the Mob: The Philosophy of George Berkeley (review)
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2): 428-431. 2009.
    Berkeley: General Works
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    The coherence of Berkeley's theory of mind
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 43 (3): 389-399. 1983.
    Berkeley has been notoriously charged with inconsistency because he held that spiritual substance exists, Although he argued against the existence of material substance. Berkeley is only inconsistent on the assumption that his argument in favor of spiritual substance parallels the rejected argument for material substance. I show that berkeley is relying on quite a different argument, One perfectly consistent with his theory of ideas, Based on presuppositions the germs of which can be found in th…Read more
    Berkeley: Philosophy of Mind, Misc