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13Berkeley (review)Idealistic Studies 22 (3): 300-301. 1992.Emerson said that idealism sees the world in God: not as “painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in a aged creeping Past,” but as “a vast picture” painted by God “on the instant eternity.” Emerson’s portrait fits A.C. Grayling’s Berkeley, who sees the world in an infinite spirit whose power is unfailing and ubiquitous. Berkeley’s arguments, Grayling suggests, move at three levels, and at the metaphysical level, God’s activity accounts for what occurs at the level of sensory exper…Read more
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13Essays on Berkeley: A Tercentennial CelebrationPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (3): 529-532. 1989.
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12A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.. (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 1982.Kenneth Winkler's esteemed edition of Berkeley's _Principles_ is based on the second edition, the last one published in Berkeley's lifetime. Life other members of Hackett's philosophical classics series, it features editorial elements found to be of particular value to students and their teachers: analytical table of contents; chronology of the author's life; selected bibliography; note on the text; glossary; and index.
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10Chapter 8. Berkeley and KantIn Daniel Garber & Béatrice Longuenesse (eds.), Kant and the Early Moderns, Princeton University Press. pp. 142-171. 2008.
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10Locke on Essence and the Social Construction of KindsIn Matthew Stuart (ed.), A Companion to Locke, Wiley. 2015.Genesis suggests that God is the creator of kinds. Kinds as Locke understands them are what are nowadays called "social constructions". They are social constructions because the boundaries between them reflect our interests, perspectives, and desires, but in Locke's view those boundaries are not altogether arbitrary, because they also reflect natural or God‐given similarities among things. This chapter looks more closely at the story of creation, and explains how, in John Locke's view, kinds in …Read more
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4"Essays on Berkeley: A Tercentennial Celebration" edited by John Foster and Howard Robinson (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (3): 529. 1989.
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4Hume and the sensible qualitiesIn Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and secondary qualities: the historical and ongoing debate, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Continuous creationIn Peter A. French (ed.), Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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Lockean Logic.”In Peter R. Anstey (ed.), The Philosophy of John Locke: New Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 154--78. 2003.
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