ABSTRACT

Berkeley’s critique of abstract ideas in the Introduction to Principles of Human Knowledge has provoked a great deal of commentary of various sorts. This anthology, first published in 1989, presents a selection of historically important and philosophically interesting discussions on Berkeley’s theories.

chapter |15 pages

Bishop Berkeley’s Petitio

chapter |16 pages

Margaret Atherton

Berkeley’s Anti-Abstractionism

chapter |22 pages

Martha Brandt Bolton

Berkeley’s Objection to Abstract Ideas and Unconceived Objects

chapter |20 pages

Berkeley on Abstraction

chapter |16 pages

Symposium

Abstract Ideas and Images.

chapter |8 pages

Replies

Two lines of argumentation in Berkeley’s Principles: a reply to

chapter |20 pages

The Philosophical Quarterly

Berkeley’s Theory of Abstract Ideas

chapter |18 pages

Berkeley on Abstract Ideas