Description:
In this highly original account of Bishop George Berkeley's epistemological and metaphysical theories, George S. Pappas seeks to determine precisely what doctrines the philosopher held and what arguments he put forward to support them. Specifically...
Brief description: George S. Pappas is Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. He is coeditor with Marshall Swain of Essays on Knowledge and Justification, also from Cornell, and coauthor of Philosophical Problems and Arguments, with James Cornman and Keith Lehrer.
Review Quotes:
One may disagree with Pappas over this or that point of interpretation. But his overall accomplishment is great, well worthy of serious discussion. Berkeley's Thought will appeal to analytical philosophers as well as to Berkeley scholars. Both will commend Pappas for his remarkable clarity.
--Richard Glauser, University of Neuchatel "Dialectica"