Berkeley's Common Sense and Science

In addition to the grand tradition of showing how George Berkeley's (1785-1753) philosophy fails as a whole system, says Tomocek, there is also a tradition of showing how parts of it work well. He contributes here to the latter tradition, covering Berkeley's optics, his common sense, the hidden metaphor, explicit and implicit common sense, modern analogies of implicit common sense, epistemology in the middle of the 20th century, idea and thing, the continuity of unperceived objects, continuity and God, and how Berkeley proves God. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Marek Tomecek is Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Humanities, Faculty of Transportation Sciences at Czech Technical University, Prague. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Charles University, Prague.