What Is God Doing in the Quad?

Philosophy Research Archives 13:637-653 (1987)
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Abstract

I begin with an examination of Berkeley’s various suggestions about how to account for the continued existence of physical objects which are unperceived by finite spirits. After dismissing some of these suggestions I attempt to combine others in a unified theory which involves an appeal to what finite perceivers would perceive if they were in the right conditions, to the operation of the will of God, and to the perception of God. I assess the merits, both philosophical and textual, of the unified theory. In the final section I comment on the implications of this theory of continuity for our conception of a Berkeleian physical object.

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Berkeley on Whether Human Sensible Ideas Are Identical to Certain Divine Ideas.Mark Pickering - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.

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