Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley
Volume 88
Part of Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
- Editors:
- Kenneth L. Pearce, Trinity College Dublin
- Takaharu Oda, Trinity College Dublin
- Date Published: June 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108970822
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This volume presents a selection of new articles examining the state of Irish philosophy during the lifetime of Ireland's most famous philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753). The thinkers examined include Berkeley, Robert Boyle, William King, William Molyneux, Robert Molesworth, Peter Browne, Jonathan Swift, John Toland, Thomas Prior, Samuel Madden, Arthur Dobbs, Francis Hutcheson, Mary Barber, Constantia Grierson, Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Sican, and John Austin. This interdisciplinary collection includes attention both to local Irish concerns and to Ireland's relation to the broader European context, and discusses philosophical reflections on topics as diverse as religion, economics, laughter, and motherhood.
Read more- Contains new articles which shed valuable light on Irish philosophy during the lifetime of Bishop George Berkeley
- Written by leading philosophers
- Discusses topes as diverse as religion, economics, laughter and motherhood
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- Date Published: June 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108970822
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface Kenneth L. Pearce and Takaharu Oda
1. The Irish Context of Berkeley's 'Resemblance Thesis' Manuel Fasko and Peter West
2. Does Berkeley's Immaterialism Support Toland's Spinozism? The Posidonian Argument and the Eleventh Objection Eric Schliesser
3. Poverty and Prosperity: Political Economics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland Marc A. Hight
4. Berkeley's Criticisms of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson Samuel C. Rickless
5. Francis Hutcheson on Liberty Ruth Boeker
6. 'Plainly of Considerable Moment in Human Society': Francis Hutcheson and Polite Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland Kate Davison
7. What the Women of Dublin Did with John Locke Christine Gerrard
8. From Serena to Hypatia: John Toland's Women Ian Leask
9. Peter Browne on the Metaphysics of Knowledge Kenneth L. Pearce
10. John Austin SJ (1717–84), The First Irish Catholic Cartesian? Jacob Schmutz
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