Berkeley''s a Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - An Introduction

A lucid and comprehensive introduction to one of Berkeley's major works which mirrors the structure of that work.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Context and aims; 3. The Introduction to the Principles; 4. The argument for immaterialism; 5. Against the philosophers: the refutation of materialism; 6. Reality and God; 7. Science and mathematics; 8. Spirits.

About the author

Dr P. J. E. Kail is University Lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy, University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Peter's College, Oxford. He is co-editor with Marina Frasca-Spada of Impressions of Hume (2005) and author of Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy (2007).

Product details

• Authors: P. J. E. Kail, P. J. E. (University of Oxford) Kail, Peter Kail, Kail P. J. E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2014
• EAN: 9781107001787
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00178-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Key; Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: logic, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards