Berkeley's Immaterialism and Kant's Transcendental Idealism

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 13:51-69 (1982)
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Ever since its first publication critics of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason have been struck by certain strong formal resemblances between transcendental idealism and Berkeley's immaterialism. Both philosophers hold that the sensible world is mind-dependent, and that from this very mind-dependence we can draw a refutation of scepticism of the senses

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