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2127Berkeley Without GodIn Robert G. Muehlmann (ed.), Berkeley's Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995.
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316Lady Mary Shepherd's case against George BerkeleyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (2). 1996.No abstract
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195‘The books are in the study as before’: Berkeley's claims about real physical objectsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (1). 2008.(2008). ‘The books are in the study as before’: Berkeley's claims about real physical objects. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 85-100
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175Reading Lady Mary ShepherdThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 13 (2): 73-85. 2005.Virginia Woolf, in A Room of One’s Own, asked why there were no women writers before 1800. If she had been thinking about philosophers instead of writers in the traditional women’s areas of plays and fiction, she might have asked why there were no women philosophers at all, for I suspect that most people would find it very hard to name a woman philosopher before the present day. To help her in answering her question, she invented a fictional character, Judith Shakespeare, a sister to William Sha…Read more
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164Corpuscles, mechanism, and essentialism in Berkeley and LockeJournal of the History of Philosophy 29 (1): 47-67. 1991.
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135How 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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110Berkeley's revolution in visionCornell 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 ...
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83The 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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82Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period (edited book)Hackett Publishing. 1994.An invaluable complement to the standards works in early modern philosophy, this anthology introduces an important selection from the largely unknown writings of women philosophers of the early modern period. Readings comment on major works of the period and are easily integrated into courses in the history of modern philosophy. Included are letters to prominent philosophers, philosophical tracts arguing a particular view, and comments on controversies of the day. Each section is prefaced by a h…Read more
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73The Inessentiality of Lockean EssencesCanadian Journal of Philosophy 14 (2). 1984.Locke, in his discussion of essences, makes extensive use of a distinction he introduces between nominal and real essences. This distinction has always been found interesting and important, and in fact, R.I. Aaron said of it that ‘there is no more important distinction in the Essay.’ Nevertheless, to say there has not been general agreement about what Locke was getting at is putting it mildly. Interpretations of Locke's point in making such a distinction have varied widely, depending upon whethe…Read more
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72A Metaphysics for the Mob: The Philosophy of George Berkeley (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2): 428-431. 2009.
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55Knowledge of Substance and Knowledge of Science in Locke's EssayHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 1 (4). 1984.
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51Mr. Abbott and professor Fraser: A nineteenth century debate about berkeleys theory of visionArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 85 (1): 21-50. 2003.
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51Review of Lisa Shapiro (ed.), The Correspondence Between Princess eLisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (10). 2007.
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44The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope (review)Dialogue 37 (3): 650-652. 1998.Not long ago, historians of philosophy realized with some excitement the canonical texts of the early modern period could be rendered increasingly intelligible if they were read not as discussing a series of atemporal “purely philosophical” questions, but as embedded in the issues raised by contemporaneous events such as the scientific revolution. To take an often-discussed example, it was hoped that, so contextualized, Locke’s notoriously puzzling distinction between primary and secondary quali…Read more
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42The Origins of the Sensation/Perception DistinctionIn Dieter Heyer & Rainer Mausfeld (eds.), Perception and the Physical World, Wiley. pp. 1--19. 2002.
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37Berkeley's theory of vision and its receptionIn Kenneth P. Winkler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley, Cambridge University Press. pp. 94. 2005.
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34Locke on Persons and Personal IdentityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 101 (1): 247-247. 2023.Ruth Boeker’s Locke on Persons and Personal Identity is a tightly argued and illuminating account, containing much to ponder. The presence of both terms, ‘persons’ and ‘personal identity’, in the t...
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