Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy: 300 Years Later
Timo Airaksinen · Bertil Belfrage
Jan 2011 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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George Berkeley (1685–1753) is, with John Locke and David Hume, one of the three major figures in the British empiricist school of philosophy. He has been the centre of much attention recently and his philosophical profile has gradually changed. In the 20th century he was almost exclusively known for his denial of the existence of matter (as this term was defined in those days), but today it is no longer reasonable to confine an account of Berkeley to the challenging philosophical inventions that he published when he was a young fellow at Trinity College in Dublin. This is a welcome trend. It shows Berkeley as a contributor not only to epistemology, metaphysics and moral and social philosophy, but also to a wide range of subjects including mathematics, philosophy of science, empirical psychology, political economy and monetary policy. The present collection aims at meeting this new trend by presenting a broad and comprehensive picture of Berkeley’s works in their historical context. The contributors are some of the finest international experts in the field. The editors hope that this collection will show George Berkeley as he was: a wide-ranging, widely influential and courageous philosophical innovator. This volume has been published to celebrate the 300th anniversary of George Berkeley’s Principles.
About the author
Timo Airaksinen (PhD, Turku University, Finland, 1975) has been Full Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland since 1981. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Finland and the International Berkeley Society. He is Managing Editor of the journal Hobbes Studies (Brill). He has written The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade (Routledge, 1995), The Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft (Lang, 1998), and The Ethics of Coercion and Authority (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988).
Bertil Belfrage became University Lecturer in Philosophy at Lund University, Sweden in 1970, and Research Fellow in the History of Ideas and Sciences in 1993. He was Senior Editor of Berkeley Studies in 2005–2007, is editing a new scholarly edition of Berkeley’s works and has published numerous papers on different aspects of Berkeley’s philosophy.
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