Language and the structure of Berkeley's world:
Gespeichert in:
| Beteilige Person: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Oxford
Oxford University Press
2017
|
| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schlagwörter: | |
| Links: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029666119&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| Abstract: | According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Surprisingly, Berkeley tries to sell this idealistic philosophical system as a defense of common-sense and an aid to science. However, both common-sense and Newtonian science take the perceived world to be highly structured in a way that Berkeley's system does not appear to allow. The author of this book argues that Berkeley's solution to this problem lies in his philosophy of language. The solution works at two levels. At the first level, it is by means of our conventions for the use of physical object talk that we impose structure on the world. At a deeper level, the orderliness of the world is explained by the fact that, according to Berkeley, the world itself is a discourse 'spoken' by God. The structure that our physical object talk aims to capture is the grammatical structure of this divine discourse. This approach yields surprising consequences for some of the most discussed issues in Berkeley's metaphysics. In Berkeley's view, physical objects are neither ideas nor collections of ideas |
| Umfang: | xiv, 218 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780198790334 |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV044261197 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20170512 | ||
| 007 | t| | ||
| 008 | 170405s2017 xx b||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780198790334 |9 978-0-19-879033-4 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)988365460 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV044261197 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-12 |a DE-19 | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Pearce, Kenneth L. |e Verfasser |0 (DE-588)112928963X |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Language and the structure of Berkeley's world |c Kenneth L. Pearce |
| 250 | |a First edition | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford |b Oxford University Press |c 2017 | |
| 300 | |a xiv, 218 Seiten | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Surprisingly, Berkeley tries to sell this idealistic philosophical system as a defense of common-sense and an aid to science. However, both common-sense and Newtonian science take the perceived world to be highly structured in a way that Berkeley's system does not appear to allow. The author of this book argues that Berkeley's solution to this problem lies in his philosophy of language. The solution works at two levels. At the first level, it is by means of our conventions for the use of physical object talk that we impose structure on the world. At a deeper level, the orderliness of the world is explained by the fact that, according to Berkeley, the world itself is a discourse 'spoken' by God. The structure that our physical object talk aims to capture is the grammatical structure of this divine discourse. This approach yields surprising consequences for some of the most discussed issues in Berkeley's metaphysics. In Berkeley's view, physical objects are neither ideas nor collections of ideas | |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Berkeley, George |d 1685-1753 |0 (DE-588)118509616 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 650 | 4 | |a Philosophie | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Sprache | |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Sprachphilosophie |0 (DE-588)4056486-1 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 653 | 1 | |a Berkeley, George / 1685-1753 / Criticism and interpretation | |
| 653 | 0 | |a Language and languages / Philosophy | |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Berkeley, George |d 1685-1753 |0 (DE-588)118509616 |D p |
| 689 | 0 | 1 | |a Sprachphilosophie |0 (DE-588)4056486-1 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung BSB Muenchen - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029666119&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 943 | 1 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-029666119 | |
Datensatz im Suchindex
| _version_ | 1819272386939191296 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
The Problem: Structure 1
The Solution: Language 2
Aims and Methodology 3
Summary of the Chapters 5
1. Berkeleys Attack on Meanings 8
The Theory of Meanings 9
The Dialectical Structure of Berkeley s Attack 12
The Case against Abstraction 15
The phenomenological appeal 16
The impossibility of abstract ideas 22
The uselessness of abstract ideas 27
Conclusion 29
2. Berkeley s Early Thoughts on Language 31
General Words 31
Operative Language 36
Mathematical and Scientific Language 45
Arithmetic and algebra 46
Geometry 48
Physics 50
Conclusion 53
3. Berkeleys Theory of Language in Alciphron 7 54
Overview of the Dialogue 55
A General Theory of Language 57
Meaning as Use 62
Ideational and Operative Language 63
Conclusion 66
4. Rules and Rule-Following 67
Implicit and Explicit Rule-Following 67
Rules and Knowledge 73
The Conventional Rules of Language 76
Inference Rules 78
VU1 CONTENTS
5. Reference and Quasi-Reference 86
Labeling 87
Generalizing 89
Labeling and Existence 90
Quasi-Referring 91
The Metaphysics of Quasi-Entities 94
6. Quasi-Referring to Bodies 97
Against Materialist Semantics 98
Bodies as Linguistic Constructions 102
Alternative Interpretations 104
Subjunctive interpretations 105
Idea interpretations 106
The Richness of Berkeleian Bodies 107
Knowledge of Bodies 108
Predication 114
Existence, Reality, Identity 117
7 Referring to Spirits and Their Actions 125
Referring to Actions 126
Referring to Spirits 128
Existence, Reality, Identity 135
Conclusion 138
8. Assent and Truth 139
The Nature of Assent 141
Assent without ideas 143
Scientific knowledge: Berkeleys anti-skepticism 149
Religious faith: Berkeley s replies to Toland and Browne 152
Partial assent 154
The Nature of Truth 157
Truth and usefulness 158
Degrees of truth 163
Holism 167
Fit with reality 169
Conclusion 171
9. The Linguistic Structure of Berkeley s World 173
A Literal Language of Nature 174
Visual language 174
Other sense modalities 180
Lexicography: Co-Instantiation 182
Syntax: Causation and Laws 188
Excursus on Common Sense and Natural Science 192
Semantics 196
Informing and instructing about ideas 197
Informing about other finite minds 198
CONTENTS IX
Informing about God 201
The interpretation of the discourse of nature 202
Conclusion: From Fleeting Ideas to Robust Structure 204
Bibliography 205
Index 215
|
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| author | Pearce, Kenneth L. |
| author_GND | (DE-588)112928963X |
| author_facet | Pearce, Kenneth L. |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Pearce, Kenneth L. |
| author_variant | k l p kl klp |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV044261197 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)988365460 (DE-599)BVBBV044261197 |
| edition | First edition |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>02674nam a2200397 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV044261197</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20170512 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t|</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">170405s2017 xx b||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780198790334</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-19-879033-4</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)988365460</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV044261197</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-19</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Pearce, Kenneth L.</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)112928963X</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Language and the structure of Berkeley's world</subfield><subfield code="c">Kenneth L. Pearce</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">First edition</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Oxford</subfield><subfield code="b">Oxford University Press</subfield><subfield code="c">2017</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">xiv, 218 Seiten</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1="3" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Surprisingly, Berkeley tries to sell this idealistic philosophical system as a defense of common-sense and an aid to science. However, both common-sense and Newtonian science take the perceived world to be highly structured in a way that Berkeley's system does not appear to allow. The author of this book argues that Berkeley's solution to this problem lies in his philosophy of language. The solution works at two levels. At the first level, it is by means of our conventions for the use of physical object talk that we impose structure on the world. At a deeper level, the orderliness of the world is explained by the fact that, according to Berkeley, the world itself is a discourse 'spoken' by God. The structure that our physical object talk aims to capture is the grammatical structure of this divine discourse. This approach yields surprising consequences for some of the most discussed issues in Berkeley's metaphysics. In Berkeley's view, physical objects are neither ideas nor collections of ideas</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Berkeley, George</subfield><subfield code="d">1685-1753</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)118509616</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Philosophie</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Sprache</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Sprachphilosophie</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4056486-1</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Berkeley, George / 1685-1753 / Criticism and interpretation</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Language and languages / Philosophy</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Berkeley, George</subfield><subfield code="d">1685-1753</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)118509616</subfield><subfield code="D">p</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Sprachphilosophie</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4056486-1</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung BSB Muenchen - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029666119&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="943" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-029666119</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV044261197 |
| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-12-20T17:58:13Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9780198790334 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-029666119 |
| oclc_num | 988365460 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-12 DE-19 DE-BY-UBM |
| owner_facet | DE-12 DE-19 DE-BY-UBM |
| physical | xiv, 218 Seiten |
| publishDate | 2017 |
| publishDateSearch | 2017 |
| publishDateSort | 2017 |
| publisher | Oxford University Press |
| record_format | marc |
| spellingShingle | Pearce, Kenneth L. Language and the structure of Berkeley's world Berkeley, George 1685-1753 (DE-588)118509616 gnd Philosophie Sprache Sprachphilosophie (DE-588)4056486-1 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)118509616 (DE-588)4056486-1 |
| title | Language and the structure of Berkeley's world |
| title_auth | Language and the structure of Berkeley's world |
| title_exact_search | Language and the structure of Berkeley's world |
| title_full | Language and the structure of Berkeley's world Kenneth L. Pearce |
| title_fullStr | Language and the structure of Berkeley's world Kenneth L. Pearce |
| title_full_unstemmed | Language and the structure of Berkeley's world Kenneth L. Pearce |
| title_short | Language and the structure of Berkeley's world |
| title_sort | language and the structure of berkeley s world |
| topic | Berkeley, George 1685-1753 (DE-588)118509616 gnd Philosophie Sprache Sprachphilosophie (DE-588)4056486-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | Berkeley, George 1685-1753 Philosophie Sprache Sprachphilosophie |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029666119&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT pearcekennethl languageandthestructureofberkeleysworld |