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85The coherence of Berkeley's theory of mindPhilosophy 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
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133How Berkeley can maintain that snow is whitePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (1). 2003.Berkeley has made the bold claim on behalf of his theory that it is uniquely able to justify the claim that snow is white. But this claim, made most strikingly in the Third of his "Three Dialogues," has been held, most forcefully by Margaret Wilson, to conflict with Berkeley's argument in the First Dialogue that, because of various facts to do with perceptual variation, colors are merely apparent and hence, mind-dependent. This paper develops an alternative reading of the First Dialogue argument…Read more
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42The Origins of the Sensation/Perception DistinctionIn Dieter Heyer & Rainer Mausfeld (eds.), Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception, Wiley. pp. 1--19. 2002.
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6“Suppose I Am Pricked with a Pin”: Locke, Reid and the Implications of RepresentationalismPacific Philosophical Quarterly 65 (2): 149-165. 2017.
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320Lady Mary Shepherd's case against George BerkeleyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (2). 1996.No abstract
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