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George Berkeley is one of the greatest and most influential modernphilosophers. In defending the immaterialism for which he is most famous heredirected modern thinking about the nature of objectivity and the mindscapacity to come to terms with it. Along the way he made striking andinfluential proposals concerning the psychology of the senses the workings oflanguage the aims of science and the scope of mathematics. In this Companionvolume a team of distinguished authors not only examines Berkeleysachievements but also his neglected contributions to moral and politicalphilosophy his writings on economics and development and his defense ofreligious commitment and religious life. The volume places Berkeleysachievements in the context of the many social and intellectual traditions philosophical scientific ethical and religious to which he fashioned adistinctive response. «
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