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Bruce Silver

University of South Florida
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  • University of South Florida
    Department of Philosophy
    Retired faculty
Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
17th/18th Century Philosophy
Areas of Interest
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
17th/18th Century Philosophy
  • All publications (12)
  •  35
    Philosophy as Frustration: Happiness Found and Feigned From Greek Antiquity to Present
    Brill. 2013.
    In Philosophy as Frustration: Happiness Found and Feigned from Greek Antiquity to Present Bruce Silver argues that traditional philosophical views of happiness, as well as recent psychological theories of happiness, are at odds with themselves and with important accounts of a truly happy life
    Happiness
  •  80
    Clarke on the quaker background of bartram, William approach to nature
    Journal of the History of Ideas 47 (3): 507-510. 1986.
    History of Western Philosophy17th/18th Century Philosophy
  • The Status of the Sciences in the Philosophy of George Berkeley
    Dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder. 1971.
    Berkeley: Philosophy of Science
  •  90
    A Priori Knowledge (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 11 (1): 78-79. 1988.
    Philosophy of Education
  •  2188
    Dante's Paradiso: No Human Beings Allowed
    Philosophy and Literature 38 (1): 110-127. 2014.
    “But when you meet her again,” he observed, “in Heaven, you, too, will be changed. You will see her spiritualized, with spiritual eyes.”1Dante is not a philosopher, although George Santayana sees him as one among a very few philosophical poets.2 The Divine Comedy deals in terza rima with issues that are philosophically urgent, including the relation between reasoning well and happiness.3And as one of the few great epics in Western literature, the Comedy offers its readers the pleasures of world-…Read more
    “But when you meet her again,” he observed, “in Heaven, you, too, will be changed. You will see her spiritualized, with spiritual eyes.”1Dante is not a philosopher, although George Santayana sees him as one among a very few philosophical poets.2 The Divine Comedy deals in terza rima with issues that are philosophically urgent, including the relation between reasoning well and happiness.3And as one of the few great epics in Western literature, the Comedy offers its readers the pleasures of world-class poetry, fabulous beasts from classical literature, good people and sinners from Dante’s Italy, and the prolongation in verse of Thomas Aquinas’s summa Theologiae and Summa contra Gentiles. In some ways, Dante’s epic ..
    13th/14th Century Philosophy
  •  119
    A Note on Berkeley’s New Theory of Vision and Thomas Reid’s Distinction Between Primary and Secondary Qualities
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 12 (2): 253-263. 1974.
    Thomas ReidBerkeley and Other PhilosophersBerkeley: Sensory PerceptionBerkeley: New Theory of Vision
  •  83
    George Ripley and miracles: External evidence versus internal conviction
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (1). 2004.
    I maintain that George Ripley (1802-1880) is among the most philosophically searching New England transcendentalists. In this essay I argue that Ripley’s denial that God’s miracles are the sole evidence of Christian truth clarifies the issues and debate that divide empiricists who seek evidence for truth through external verification and intuitionists who maintain that religious truth is manifest only within the minds, hearts, and special senses of true believers
    Miracles, Misc
  •  74
    Berkeley and the Mathematics of Materialism
    New Scholasticism 46 (4): 427-438. 1972.
    Berkeley: ImmaterialismBerkeley: Philosophy of Science
  •  106
    Reply to Professor Mirarchi
    Journal of the History of Ideas 38 (4): 714. 1977.
    Professor l a mirarchi argues, In his "force and absolute motion in berkeley's philosophy of physics" (_journal of the history of ideas<d>, Volume 38, Pages 705-713), That I have misunderstood berkeley's treatment of inertial motion. I contend, Despite professor mirarchi's criticism, That while berkeley accepts the newtonian principle of inertia, He cannot accommodate it into his own radically contingent picture of the universe
    History of Western Philosophy20th Century PhilosophyBerkeley: Philosophy of Science
  •  96
    Boswell on Johnson's refutation of Berkeley: revisiting the stone
    Journal of the History of Ideas 54 (3): 437-448. 1993.
    History of Western Philosophy17th/18th Century Philosophy
  •  96
    The Invisible World of Berkeley’s New Theory of Vision
    New Scholasticism 51 (2): 142-161. 1977.
    Berkeley: Sensory PerceptionBerkeley: New Theory of Vision
  •  71
    Montaigne, An Apology for Raymond Sebond: Happiness and the Poverty of Reason
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (1): 94-110. 2002.
    Happiness
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