Berkeley's Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays

Jacket Description/Back: This collection of fourteen interpretive essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753) focuses specifically on Berkeley's theory of the nature and variety of existing things. The collection is notable for containing the first four winners of the Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize (only the first of which has been previously published). Table of Contents: Contents PrefaceBibliographical NoteContributorsIntroduction Part I: Idealism 1. Berkeley's Idealism: Yet Another Visit/Edwin B. Allaire2. On Allaire's "Another Visit"/Alan Hausman and David Hausman3. A New Approach to Berkeley's Ideal Reality/ Alan Hausman and David Hausman4. On the Hausmans's "A New Approach"/Fred Wilson5. The Substance of Berkeley's Philosophy/Robert G. Muehlmann6. Berkeley's Manifest Qualities Thesis/Phillip D. Cummins7. Berkeleian Idealism and Impossible Performances/George Pappas Part II: Volition, Action, and Causation 8. Berkeley's Problem of Sighted Agency/Robert G. Muehlmann9. Berkeley and Action/Robert Imlay10. On Imlay's "Berkeley and Action"/Catherine Wilson11. Berkeley's Case Against Realism about Dynamics/Lisa Downing Part III: Vision and Perceptual Objects 12. Seeing Distance from a Berkeleian Perspective/Robert Schwartz13. Berkeley Without God/Margaret Atherton14. Godless Immaterialism: On Atherton's Berkeley/Charles J. McCracken