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

by Peter Kail

Book Overview

George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a crucial text in the history of empiricism and in the history of philosophy more generally. Its central and seemingly astonishing claim is that the physical world cannot exist independently of the perceiving mind. The meaning of this claim, the powerful arguments in its favour, and the system in which it is embedded, are explained in a highly lucid and readable fashion and placed in their historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521173116
• ISBN13: 9780521173117
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"