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Author: Samuel C. Rickless (University of California San Diego)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.00cm
Weight: 0.406kg
ISBN: 9780199669424
ISBN 10: 0199669422
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 10 January 2013
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Rickless' book provides a compelling and coherent picture of Berkeley's views on immediate and mediate perception, of Berkeley's ontology of sensible objects, and of the ways in which Berkeley's major metaphysical works, PHK and 3D, fit together.... This book is an important addition to Berkeley's scholarship, and is to be roundly recommended. --Melissa Frankel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Rickless has produced a thoughtful interpretation of considerable ingenuity. Of particular interest is his original and compelling reading of Berkeleys distinction between immediate and mediate perception. Keota Fields, The Philosophical Quarterly Rickless' book provides a compelling and coherent picture of Berkeley's views on immediate and mediate perception, of Berkeley's ontology of sensible objects, and of the ways in which Berkeley's major metaphysical works, PHK and 3D, fit together. This book is an important addition to Berkeley's scholarship, and is to be roundly recommended. Samuel C. Rickless, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Rickless's book is an engaging and important work in the history of philosophy Journal of the History of Philosophy Rickless has produced a thoughtful interpretation of considerable ingenuity. Of particular interest is his original and compelling reading of Berkeleys distinction between immediate and mediate perception. Keota Fields, The Philosophical Quarterly Rickless' book provides a compelling and coherent picture of Berkeley's views on immediate and mediate perception, of Berkeley's ontology of sensible objects, and of the ways in which Berkeley's major metaphysical works, PHK and 3D, fit together. This book is an important addition to Berkeley's scholarship, and is to be roundly recommended. Melissa Frankel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Samuel C. Rickless Berkeleys Argument for Idealism is an excellent book. It is clearly written, tightly focused, and rigorously argued ... a must-read for historians of early modern philosophy ... I am confident that it will shape this debate for many years to come. Robert Watt, European Journal of Philosophy
Author Information
Samuel C. Rickless is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Educated at Harvard (BA, 1986) and Balliol College, Oxford (BPhil 1988), he earned his PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1996. After five years of teaching at Florida State University, he joined the UCSD philosophy department in 2001. He is the author of Plato's Forms in Transition (CUP, 2007), and articles on a variety of subjects in the history of philosophy, including Socrates' theory of virtue; Plato's theory of forms; Plato's method of definition; the Cartesian Circle; early modern theories of primary and secondary qualities; Locke's theory of knowledge, rejection of innate ideas, and philosophy of action; Hume's account of the passions; and Kant's argument for the Categorical Imperative. His research interests extend to normative ethics, constitutional law, and philosophy of language. He is at work on a book on Locke for Wiley-Blackwell's Great Minds series.
