Tag: Idealism

Russell’s Argument for Matter and Criticism of Berkeley’s Idealism

Before reading this post it is recommended but not necessary that you read the prior post on Berkeley since, in the first part, Russell is responding to his arguments.Introduction and ContextRussell is doing two things in Ch. 2 of The Problems of Philosophy.  The overall project can be viewed as a proposed solution to Descartes’ skepticism: i.e, […]

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Berkeley: The Argument for Idealism and the Argument Against Skepticism

Introduction and Context:  Locke and Primary and Secondary PropertiesTo really understand Berkeley’s arguments, you have to understand what issues and positions he was responding to. Descartes left us with a problem:  Since we can never “get out of our own heads,” how do we know that our ideas and perceptions of the external world of […]

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