Berkeley on meaning, truth, and assent

Fields, Keota

doi:10.1080/09608788.2021.1949959

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

2021

DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2021.1949959

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Berkeley on meaning, truth, and assent

Keota Fields

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“…6 6 See Pearce (2017) for a compelling recent account of the role of language in Berkeley's metaphysics. For critical engagement with Pearce's view, and expansion of the recent debate on Berkeley's theory of language, see Fields (2021a), (2021b), DeRose (2021), (2022), and Fasko (2019). See also a forthcoming edited collection on ‘Berkeley's Doctrine of Signs' which includes numerous essays on the role of language in Berkeley's philosophy (West and Fasko, forthcoming).…”

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Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope

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2023

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Berkeley is best known for his immaterialism and the texts that extol it-the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. He made his case by treatise, then by dialogue, and this tendency towards stylistic experimentation did not end there; this paper explores an early speculative fiction project that pursued his theological and philosophical agendas. Berkeley used satire to challenge his "freethinking" philosophical opponents in "The Pineal Gland" story published in The Guardian in 1713. Echoing the grand tours Berkeley undertook in subsequent years, Part 1 offers a "gland tour" of some literary motivations, influences and legacies of these essays. Berkeley pursues heroic themes from Homer and Alexander Pope, while lampooning the philosophies of both Descartes and the freethinkers.Armed with the device of a magic snuff that transports him to the pineal glands of his adversaries, Berkeley's protagonist uses it "to distinguish the real from the professed sentiments of all persons of eminence in court, city, town, and country". (Guardian, p. 187) Part 1 examines 'The Pineal Gland' in the context of Berkeley's broader philosophical legacy and the text's significant engagement with the literature of Homer and Pope, concluding that "The Pineal Gland" is an important but overlooked source in the history of early speculative fiction. Part 2 continues this analysis by exploring Berkeley's relationship with an expansive London literary

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Berkeley on religious truths: a reply to Keota Fields

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2022

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Berkeley on meaning, truth, and assent

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Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope

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