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  1. Can the Berkeleyan Idealist Resist Spinozist Panpsychism?Graham Clay & Michael Rauschenbach - 2021 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 24 (2):296-325.
    We argue that prevailing definitions of Berkeley’s idealism fail to rule out a nearby Spinozist rival view that we call ‘mind-body identity panpsychism.’ Since Berkeley certainly does not agree with Spinoza on this issue, we call for more care in defining Berkeley’s view. After we propose our own definition of Berkeley’s idealism, we survey two Berkeleyan strategies to block the mind-body identity panpsychist and establish his idealism. We argue that Berkeley should follow Leibniz and further develop his account of the (...)
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  2. Knowing Me, Knowing You: Berkeley on Self-Knowledge and Other Minds.Peter West - 2020 - The Self and Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy.
  3. Berkeley's Non-Cartesian Notion of Spiritual Substance.Stephen H. Daniel - 2018 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 56 (4):659-682.
    As central as the notion of mind is for Berkeley, it is not surprising that what he means by mind stirs debate. At issue are questions about not only what kind of thing a mind is but also how we can know it. This convergence of ontological and epistemological interests in discussing mind has led some commentators to argue that Berkeley's appeal to the Cartesian vocabulary of 'spiritual substance' signals his appropriation of elements of Descartes's theory of mind. But in (...)
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  4. Hey, What's the Big Idea? Berkeley and Hume on Extension, Local Conjunction, and the Immateriality of the Soul.Don Garrett - 2018 - In Stefan Storrie (ed.), Berkeley's Three Dialogues: New Essays. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 191-204.
  5. The Active Self and Perception in Berkeley's Three Dialogues.James Hill - 2018 - In Stefan Storrie (ed.), Berkeley's Three Dialogues: New Essays. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 123-135.
  6. Berkeley on Voluntary Motion: A Conservationist Account.Takaharu Oda - 2018 - Ruch Filozoficzny 74 (4):71–98.
    A plausible reading of Berkeley’s view of voluntary motion is occasionalism; this, however, leads to a specious conclusion against his argument of human action. Differing from an unqualified occasionalist reading, I consider the alternative reading that Berkeley is a conservationist regarding bodily motion by the human mind at will. That is, finite minds (spirits) immediately cause motions in their body parts, albeit under the divine conservation. My argument then comports with the conservationist reading from three perspectives: (i) theodicy that the (...)
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  7. Uma visita a glândula pineal.George Berkeley & Jaimir Conte - 2016 - Revista Litterarius 15 (2):1-8.
    Os dois ensaios aqui traduzidos: “Uma visita a uma glândula pineal”, publicado originalmente em 21 de abril de 1713 no número 35 do Guardian e a “A glândula pineal (continuação)”, publicado no dia 25 de abril, no número 39, formam uma unidade não apenas pela referência a ideia de glândula pineal concebida por Descartes como ponto de interação entre a alma e o corpo, mas também pela forma literária e pelo pseudônimo comum. Eles fazem parte de um conjunto de quatorze (...)
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  8. Berkeley, Hobbes, and the Constitution of the Self.Stephen H. Daniel - 2015 - In Sébastien Charles (ed.), Berkeley Revisited: Moral, Social and Political Philosophy. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. pp. 69-81.
    By focusing on the exchange between Descartes and Hobbes on how the self is related to its activities, Berkeley draws attention to how he and Hobbes explain the forensic constitution of human subjectivity and moral/political responsibility in terms of passive obedience and conscientious submission to the laws of the sovereign. Formulated as the language of nature or as pronouncements of the supreme political power, those laws identify moral obligations by locating political subjects within those networks of sensible signs. When thus (...)
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  9. Newtonian Idealism: Matter, Perception, and the Divine Will.Liam P. Dempsey - 2014 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 52 (1):86-112.
    This paper investigates Isaac Newton's rather unique account of God's relation to matter. According to this account, corpuscles depend on a substantially omnipresent God endowing quantities of objective space with the qualities of shape, solidity, the unfaltering tendency to move in accord with certain laws, and—significantly—the power to interact with created minds. I argue that there are important similarities and differences between Newton's account of matter and Berkeley's idealism. And while the role played by the divine will might at first (...)
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  10. Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the “Black List Hypothesis”: A Dialogue.Stephen H. Daniel - 2013 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (1):24-41.
    Clues about what Berkeley was planning to say about mind in his now-lost second volume of the Principles seem to abound in his Notebooks. However, commentators have been reluctant to use his unpublished entries to explicate his remarks about spiritual substances in the Principles and Dialogues for three reasons. First, it has proven difficult to reconcile the seemingly Humean bundle theory of the self in the Notebooks with Berkeley's published characterization of spirits as “active beings or principles.” Second, the fact (...)
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  11. How Berkeley Redefines Substance.Stephen H. Daniel - 2013 - Berkeley Studies 24:40-50.
    In several essays I have argued that Berkeley maintains the same basic notion of spiritual substance throughout his life. Because that notion is not the traditional (Aristotelian, Cartesian, or Lockean) doctrine of substance, critics (e.g., John Roberts, Tom Stoneham, Talia Mae Bettcher, Margaret Atherton, Walter Ott, Marc Hight) claim that on my reading Berkeley either endorses a Humean notion of substance or has no recognizable theory of substance at all. In this essay I point out how my interpretation does not (...)
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  12. Berkeley’s Theory of Mind: Some New Models1. [REVIEW]Talia Mae Bettcher - 2011 - Philosophy Compass 6 (10):689-698.
    Berkeley didn’t write very much about his ‘philosophy of mind’ and what he did write is rather perplexing and perhaps inconsistent. The most basic problem is that it just isn’t clear what a mind (or, more accurately, a spirit) is for Berkeley. Unsurprisingly, many interpretations tend to understand Berkeleian spirit in models provided by other philosophers – interpretations in which Berkeleian spirit turns out to be a close cousin of the Cartesian ego, Lockean spiritual substratum, Lockean self, and Humean bundle (...)
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  13. Berkeley's last word on spirit'.Margaret Atherton - 2010 - In Petr Glombíček & James Hill (eds.), Essays on the concept of mind in early-modern philosophy. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 115--30.
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  14. A paradigm shift in George Berkeley's philosophy 1707-1709.Bertil Belfrage - 2010 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 135 (1):71 - 82.
    In this paper, I argue that there is a paradigm shift in George Berkeley's philosophy between his early, unpublished manuscripts (1707-1708) and the Theory of Vision (1709). If so, the traditional method of mixing published and unpublished material will lead to a confused picture of both his early, unpublished view and the doctrine that he published. Cet article montre qu'il y a eu un changement de paradigme dans la philosophie de Berkeley entre ses premiers manuscrits, non publiés, de 1707-1708 et (...)
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  15. Berkeley et l'imagination.Sébastien Charles - 2010 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 135 (1):97 - 108.
    La place qu'occupe l'imagination dans la philosophie berkeleyenne semble ne pas poser de problème et n'être en rien originale, consistant en une simple reprise de la position lockéenne. Pourtant, en attribuant une spontanéité créatrice à l'imagination, qui en fait une faculté tout à fait particulière, et en insistant sur la puissance et les limites de cette même faculté, Berkeley réintroduit subrepticement un principe de différenciation au plan épistémologique, que l'on peut retrouver mutatis mutandis au plan moral à travers son opposition (...)
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  16. The Animal According to Berkeley.Sebastien Charles - 2010 - In Silvia Parigi (ed.), George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment. Springer.
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  17. Berkeley's Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology, and the Elusive Subject, by Talia Mae Bettcher. [REVIEW]M. Tomecek - 2010 - Mind 119 (473):185-188.
  18. Fictions in Berkeley:: From Epistemology to Morality.Sébastien Charles - 2009 - Berkeley Studies:13-21.
    In the classical era, imagination garnered poor press: fooling the senses, perverting judgment, subverting reason, skewing social relations, and generally providing wrong ideas about the way things are; it was a faculty of which to beware. Occasionally it was recognized as not being entirely without value—Descartes, for example, insisted on its great usefulness as a figurational function in simplifying the work of the understanding in geometry. The traditional tendency in philosophy, though, was to denigrate imagination for its misleading nature and (...)
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  19. Berkeley's Actively Passive Mind.Genevieve Migely - 2007 - In Stephen Hartley Daniel (ed.), Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy. University of Toronto Press.
  20. Descartes and Berkeley on mind: The fourth distinction.Walter Ott - 2006 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (3):437 – 450.
    The popular Cartesian reading of George Berkeley's philosophy of mind mischaracterizes his views on the relations between substance and essence and between an idea and the act of thought in which it figures. I argue that Berkeley rejects Descartes's tripartite taxonomy of distinctions and makes use of a fourth kind of distinction. In addition to illuminating Berkeley's ontology of mind, this fourth distinction allows us to dissolve an important dilemma raised by Kenneth Winkler.
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  21. Berkeley's active self.Jonathan Dancy - 2005 - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 1 (1):5-20.
    The Author considers the strengths and weaknesses of Berkeley’s account of what he calls indifferently the soul, mind, spirit or self. Such an account deserves far more credit than he has standardly been awarded for a significantly modern position, most of which has mistakenly been credited to Schopenhauer. The Aauthor relates Berkeley’s views to those recently expressed by Bill Brewer and attempts to isolate the crucial difference between Berkeley and Schopenhauer.
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  22. The New Berkeley.Marc Hight & Walter Ott - 2004 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34 (1):1 - 24.
    Throughout his mature writings, Berkeley speaks of minds as substances that underlie or support ideas. After initially flirting with a Humean account, according to which minds are nothing but ‘congeries of Perceptions’, Berkeley went on to claim that a mind is a ‘perceiving, active being … entirely distinct’ from its ideas. Despite his immaterialism, Berkeley retains the traditional category of substance and gives it pride of place in his ontology. Ideas, by contrast, are ‘fleeting and dependent beings’ that must be (...)
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  23. The New Berkeley.Marc Hight And Walter Ott - 2004 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34 (1):1-24.
    Throughout his mature writings, Berkeley speaks of minds as substances that underlie or support ideas. After initially flirting with a Humean account, according to which minds are nothing but ‘congeries of Perceptions’, Berkeley went on to claim that a mind is a ‘perceiving, active being... entirely distinct’ from its ideas. Despite his immaterialism, Berkeley retains the traditional category of substance and gives it pride of place in his ontology. Ideas, by contrast, are ‘fleeting and dependent beings’ that must be supported (...)
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  24. The passive eye: gaze and subjectivity in Berkeley (via Beckett).C. Branka Arsi - 2003 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
  25. Subjetividad e inmaterialismo en la filosofía de George Berkeley.Santiago Echeverri - 2003 - Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 27:127-148.
  26. Subjetividad e inmaterialismo en la filosofía de George Berkeley.Santiago Echeverri Saldarriaga - 2003 - Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 27:127-148.
    Con frecuencia, el inmaterialismo de Berkeley ha sido mal comprendido, pese al importante papel que cumple dentro de su filosofía. Dos razones podrían explicar este hecho: de un lado, se ha juzgado que la negación de la existencia de la materia contradice radicalmente el sentido común; de otro lado, se podría pensar que la tesis del inmaterialismo obedece exclusivamente a las motivaciones teológicas que impulsaron las indagaciones de Berkeley. En contraste con estas posturas, el artículo propone hacer una lectura estrictamente (...)
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  27. Berkeley on Spirit and Its Unity.William H. Beardsley - 2001 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 18 (3):259 - 277.
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  28. (1 other version)Berkeley's Passive Mind.Devin Henry - 2000 - Minerva 4.
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  29. The Spirit and the Heap: Berkeley and Hume on the Self and Self-Consciousness.Talia Mae Bettcher - 1999 - Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles
    This dissertation concerns an important dispute between George Berkeley and David Hume. The dispute involves Berkeley's defense of his conception of the self as a spirit, a purely active being which perceives ideas; and Hume's elimination of that conception via his own, according to which the self is merely a heap, a causally connected system of perceptions. At bottom, this difference in the way that the self is conceptualized is informed by a fundamental difference in philosophical starting-point. Berkeley seeks to (...)
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  30. The Substance of Berkeley's Philosophy.Robert Muehlmann - 1995 - In Berkeley's Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays. Pennsylvania State University Press.
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  31. Reexamining Berkeley's Notion of Suggestion.Aaron Ben-Zeev - 1989 - Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 23 (59):21-30.
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  32. Berkeley’s Active Mind.Robert Mckim - 1989 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 71 (3):335-343.
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  33. Berkeley’s Cartesian Concept of Mind.Charles J. McCracken - 1988 - The Monist 71 (4):596-613.
    Behind Berkeley looms the figure of Descartes. For though Descartes did not directly influence Berkeley as much as did Locke, Malebranche, and Bayle, the points at which these three most affected Berkeley’s thinking were often just those at which they were themselves reacting to Descartes’ doctrines. This is most apparent in the question of the existence of the material world, for it was Descartes who had made that a central topic of discussion in the seventeenth century. When Malebranche sought to (...)
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  34. The Order and Dating of Berkeley's "Notebooks".Bertil Belfrage - 1985 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 39 (154):196.
  35. Comment on Charles McCracken's 'Berkeley on the Nature of Mind'.Marie Hungerman - 1985 - Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society 10:52-56.
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  36. Berkeley on the Nature of Mind.Charles Mccracken - 1985 - Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society 10.
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  37. Berkeley on will, some philosophical notes.M. Phillips - 1985 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 39 (154):252-258.
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  38. Berkeley on Volition, Power, and the Complexity of Causation.Kenneth P. Winkler - 1985 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 2 (1):53 - 69.
  39. Berkeley on Action.A. D. Woozley - 1985 - Philosophy 60 (233):293 - 307.
    At the risk of proving myself such a caviller, I want to ask a question which I have seldom heard raised, and which I have never seen discussed in anything that I have read about Berkeley. If I am right, it poses a problem for his immaterialism, not only different, but coming from a different direction, from those objections that are commonly levelled against him. If I am wrong, it will show how right Berkeley was to stress the difficulty of (...)
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  40. The coherence of Berkeley's theory of mind.Margaret Atherton - 1983 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 43 (3):389-399.
    Berkeley has been notoriously charged with inconsistency because he held that spiritual substance exists, Although he argued against the existence of material substance. Berkeley is only inconsistent on the assumption that his argument in favor of spiritual substance parallels the rejected argument for material substance. I show that berkeley is relying on quite a different argument, One perfectly consistent with his theory of ideas, Based on presuppositions the germs of which can be found in the thought of his predecessors in (...)
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  41. Matter and Spirit in Berkeley.Robert James Mckim - 1982 - Dissertation, Yale University
    Berkeley's opposition to materialism of all sorts is explored and explained. The textual evidence locates Berkeley in the 17th and 18th century tradition which saw materialism as the main source of religious and moral scepticism, and Berkeley's approach is clarified by a comparison with the criticisms of materialism presented by some of his less well known predecessors and contemporaries. The accepted account of the development of Berkeley's immaterialism is explored and rejected. ;The precise way in which spirit, both finite and (...)
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  42. Lending a Hand to Philonous: The Berkeley, Plato, Aristotle Connection.Colin M. Turbayne - 1982 - In Colin Murray Turbayne (ed.), Berkeley: Critical and Interpretive Essays. Univ of Minnesota Press.
  43. Berkeley on the Mind's Activity.George Pitcher - 1981 - American Philosophical Quarterly 18 (3):221 - 227.
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  44. An Alleged Incoherence in Berkeley's Philosophy.Reinaldo Elugardo - 1978 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (sup1):177-189.
    In a well known paper, “Mind and Ideas in Berkeley” George Pitcher has argued that Berkeley's account of how minds are related to sensible ideas must be incoherent. Douglas Odegard has already criticized Pitcher's treatment of Berkeley, but the criticisms pertain to other questions. No one appears to have challenged Pitcher's most important argument. I hope to show that, while it is well worth analyzing, the argument fails to provide any effective reductio ad absurdum of Berkeley's real position.Pitcher's argument trades (...)
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  45. Berkeley: Irish Cartesian.Harry M. Bracken - 1975 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 24 (101):39-51.
  46. Berkeley’s Causal Thesis.John Immerwahr - 1974 - New Scholasticism 48 (2):153-170.
  47. La formation de la problématique de la substance spirituelle chez Berkeley.Y. Michaud - 1974 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 79 (1):63 - 83.
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  48. Berkeley on the Unity of the Self.S. C. Brown - 1971 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 5:64-87.
    That the legacy of Berkeley's philosophy has been a largely sceptical one is perhaps rather surprising. For he himself took it as one of his objectives to undermine scepticism. He roundly denied that there were ‘any principles more opposite to Scepticism than those we have laid down’ . Yet Hume was to write of Berkeley that ‘most of the writings of that very ingenious author form the best lessons of scepticism, Bayle not excepted’. And it has become something of a (...)
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  49. Berkeley's View of Spirit.Ian C. Tipton - 1966 - In Warren E. Steinkraus (ed.), New studies in Berkeley's philosophy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. pp. 59--71.
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  50. The Concept of Spiritual Substance in the Empiricist Philosophy of George Berkeley.Edward George King - 1965 - Dissertation, University of Notre Dame
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