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Atherton, Margaret [Contributor]; Bartha, Dávid [Contributor]; DeRose, Todd [Contributor]; Fasko, Manuel [Contributor]; Fasko, Manuel [Editor]; Fields, Keota [Contributor]; Moriarty, Clare Marie [Contributor]; Saporiti, Katia [Contributor]; Schwartz, Robert [Contributor]; Slater, Lauren [Contributor]; Stoneham, Tom [Contributor]; West, Peter [Contributor]; West, Peter [Editor] ; Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Berkeley’s Doctrine of Signs
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Acknowledgements
    Table of Contents
    List of Abbreviations
    Introduction
    1 APuzzle about Mediate Perception
    2 Did Berkeley Endorse the Resemblance Theory of Representation?
    3 Resemblance and Representation: The Complexity of Berkeley’s Notion of Likeness and Mental Representation
    4 Why Berkeley was not a Representationalist
    5 Is There Anybody Out There? Berkeley’s Indirect Realism About Other Minds
    6 Does Berkeley Have a Theory of Meaning?
    7 Berkeley On the Meaning of General Terms
    8 Natural Causes and Berkeley’s Divine Language Hypothesis
    9 Reading the Signs of my Body: Berkeley and Descartes on Signs and Sensations
    10 Mathematics: Signification and Significance
    11 The Future State and the Signs of Desire
    List of Contributors
    Index
  • Contributor: Atherton, Margaret [MitwirkendeR]; Bartha, Dávid [MitwirkendeR]; DeRose, Todd [MitwirkendeR]; Fasko, Manuel [MitwirkendeR]; Fasko, Manuel [HerausgeberIn]; Fields, Keota [MitwirkendeR]; Moriarty, Clare Marie [MitwirkendeR]; Saporiti, Katia [MitwirkendeR]; Schwartz, Robert [MitwirkendeR]; Slater, Lauren [MitwirkendeR]; Stoneham, Tom [MitwirkendeR]; West, Peter [MitwirkendeR]; West, Peter [HerausgeberIn]
  • Corporation: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
  • imprint: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, [2024]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 231 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9783111197586
  • ISBN: 9783111197586
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern ; Berkeley, George ; Early Modern Philosophy ; representation ; signs
  • Reproduction note: Issued also in print
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: This volume focuses on Berkeley’s doctrine of signs. The ‘doctrine of signs’ refers to the use that Berkeley makes of a phenomenon that is central to a great deal of everyday discourse: one whereby certain perceivable entities are made to stand in for (as ‘signs’ of) something else. Things signified might be other perceivable entities or they might also be unperceivable notions – such as the meanings of words. From his earliest published work, A New Theory of Vision in 1710, to those works written towards the end of life, including Alciphron in 1732, Berkeley is at pains to emphasise the crucial role that sign-usage, particularly (but not only) in language, plays in human life. Berkeley also connects sign-usage to our (human) relationship with God: an issue that was right of the heart of his philosophical project. The contributions in this volume explore the myriad ways that Berkeley built on such insights to better understand a range of philosophical issues – issues of epistemology, language, perception, mental representation, mathematics, science, and theology. The aim of this volume is to establish that the doctrine of signs can be seen as one of the unifying themes of Berkeley’s philosophy. What’s more, this theme is one which spans his whole philosophical corpus; not just his best-known works like the Principles and the Three Dialogues, but also his works on science, mathematics, and theology
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND)